I’ve been reading Andrew Sullivan for a while, and have always found him alternately infuriating and inspiring — but always sincere, and always eloquent. This post may be the best thing he’s ever written: I predict that as fear of administrative reprisal ebbs, more and more whistle-blowers will come forward with evidence of what was [...]
The atrocities going on Palestine right have been, if nothing else, an opportunity for pretty much every American politician to trot out their support-Israel-no-matter what bona fides. From pro-Israel rallies to outrageously false analogies1 to congressional resolutions, it’s been a steady drumbeat of one-sided, morally bankrupt demagoguery since the slaughter began. I saw the best [...]
Matthew Yglesias captures one of the most infuriating aspects of the way we talk about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in this country — the fact that so much of our rhetoric is premised on the notion that we’re disinterested parties in the whole affair. We’re emphatically not: But as long as Israel is by far the [...]
Matt Taibbi, spiritual heir to Hunter S Thompson and preeminent chronicler of the cynical braindead bullshit that passes for a political process in this country1, is sold: This dumbed-down, degraded election process of ours has, in spite of itself and to my own extreme astonishment, brilliantly re-energized the American experiment and restored legitimacy to our [...]
And now, in the final days, McCain’s last spurious attack: that Obama is unfit to be president because he associates with Rashid Khalidi, a Columbia professor who speaks eloquently for Palestinian rights and Palestinian statehood, and is therefore an anti-semite and a PLO shill and a closet terrorist. Now, one could point to the fact [...]
The good news is that, if you’re in the market for an ignorant xenophobic bigoted loudmouth, you can just stop by the nearest convenient McCain/Palin rally and pick one up. They won’t be hard to find. The footage from inside these things is pretty entertaining — Palin giving the crowd that adorable smile of hers [...]
I just finished listening to the best and clearest explanation I’ve heard yet of what caused the financial crisis, from This American Life. Check it out. I’m fairly sure that I still don’t understand all the fundamentals here, but I think I know enough to come to some actual conclusions: This is real. The problems [...]
There are basically two ways to react to the news that something you vociferously advocated for turned out to be a really, really bad idea: you can either admit your mistake and learn from it, or you can double down. Here’s Tom Friedman doubling down: It’s been a while since I’ve heard someone so intelligent [...]
Another beautiful speech from Obama, this one in Berlin: One line in particular struck a real chord with me: I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before. Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen – a proud citizen of the United States, [...]
Behold, again, the horror: I remember being shocked and nauseated when I first saw this, but it’s taken on a whole new resonance in the past few months, as McCain has steadily jettisoned everything that made him worthwhile and honorable as a candidate, in order to embrace the Bush Way, in all its jingoistic, pitiless [...]
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