Another objection I have about the letters that I skip over is that their writers have very poor reading comprehension. Of course, that goes hand in hand with bad writing.

What you failed to pick up from reading my letter was that I do not object to people writing letters that I disagree with. I object to teabag types who do not think for themselves, who have knee-jerk reactions to rational arguments, who are out-and-out brain-dead ideologues, who use moronic ad hominem attacks, and who simply bring a lot of noise and no light at all to the discussion.

Well, they are not doing much, rather, they are not doing anything at all, to bring people around to their way of thinking. When I see bad, bad writing filled with over-emotional screeching and wild leaps of logic, I stop reading. It is so bad now that I go through and only read letters from people whose names I recognize. But that is a real pain in the ass. So I wish they'd go to a place more congenial to their way of thinking (thinking may not be the right word here) like the 9/12 web site or Drudge or World Net Daily or some damn militia group's forum. And take their guns and Jesus holsters and tiny sausages and big mouths and authoritarian pimply butts with them.

been raided by tea baggers and other assholes of that ilk? What the hell.

I understand that the government's job is simply to facilitate the ever increasing shift in wealth from the 95% of us who are worried about our employment to the 1% who now have more wealth than the 95% of us combined. Did I get that wrong somehow?

First they handed everything to the banks, and now our benevolent government is going to mandate that we turn the rest of our money over to the insurance companies. And of course, there are the trillions that go to the military-industrial complex, which also ends up in the pockets of those rich white one-percenters at Halliburton and Blackwater.

Violence in various forms may be right around the corner, but I am sure the 1% can afford armed guards and great security systems. So everything is right with the world in the good old USA.

How the World Really Works

In other news, Olbermann has announced at Kos that White-Teeth Wolffe is back:

Firstly, as I said when issues about Richard's other work were first raised in August of this year, he wouldn't appear on the newshour until we straightened them out. I'm confident we've done that now. Among other managers, the broadcast network's very tough practices exec vetted this other job (and as indicated, the work he's done for us), found no interrelation, and believes as I do that the failure was in the area of disclosure.

Thus will his appearances be limited to areas that don't overlap with his non-journalistic work. Those that could even seem to present a conflict of interest will also be off-limits. Each of his appearances will mention his private work and viewers will be directed to the web for fuller elucidation of what he does - and doesn't - do there.

As his biography outlines:

In April 2009, he joined Public Strategies as Senior Strategist at the business advisory firm that serves some of the world’s largest corporations, non-profits and associations.

His Public Strategies work involves offering communications advice to senior executives. He consults on how to manage their relationship to the public and their community in the broadest sense. Public Strategies is led by Democrats and Republicans, and does not have political clients. Wolffe is not a lobbyist for any clients. He does not use his TV commentary or writing to speak for his clients, nor does he use it to advocate for their interests. In fact, he recuses himself from any TV appearances that involve his clients. For more on Public Strategies, please visit its website: www.pstrategies.com.

*slap*

I am digging you tonight.

Carry on...

Obama is just trying to quell the rising anger of progressives. A number of (actual, not David Gregory-type) reporters, including Robert Reich here at Salon, have noted that this admin has assured Big Pharma and the insurance industry in secret that there will be no public option in the final bill.

Obama just wants to appear to be trying to do the right thing, so he can have an excuse. This whole bipartisanship smoke and mirrors game is a part of that. The senators are mostly in on the game. I just saw some Dem senator on Maddow say that if the bill doesn't get 65 votes, "it's not legitimate." This same senator won his own election with a mere 51 per cent. The amazing thing about all this is that these bastards think no one can see through them.

Considering this president's appalling record so far, I believe Reich. People who are still hoping for something from Mr. Hopey Changey Bait and Switch are living in La La Land.

Outrageous.

Gee, America's foreign policy is hypocritical.

Thank you for being such a great exemplar of my illustration at sig. What would we do without people like you to tell us that you are all-knowing and all-seeing.

Believe it or not, I still struggle with twinges of conscience over my initial skepticism towards Obama rising to the level of settled repugnance.

HA HA! Wonderful!

I refer to the fourth musketeer as D'Igby. :)

Their pens (or keystrokes) are their swords. See sig.