Bravo, Ohio
“Republican-backed limits on collective bargaining for 360,000 public employees in Ohio were squashed by voters through a resounding defeat of Issue 2.”
“Incompatible with real democracy”
Paul Krugman: “extreme concentration of income is incompatible with real democracy.”
Close-reading Herman Cain
“The charge that Herman Cain sexually harassed two women when he headed the National Restaurant Association may indeed be false. But the candidate’s responses merit close reading.”
At Zuccotti Park (6)
Tarps.
At Zuccotti Park (5)
Photograph of a man with a flag.
Three little words
“Outgrow China.”
At Zuccotti Park (4)
“We the 99% are too big to fail.”
At Zuccotti Park (3)
Our friends Jim and Luanne Koper went to Zuccotti Park on Saturday and are sharing their photographs of the day.
Orange Cain tax
“We are replacing the current tax code with oranges": Herman Cain, in tonight's debate.
At Zuccotti Park (2)
Our friends Jim and Luanne Koper went to Zuccotti Park on Saturday and are sharing their photographs of the day.
At Zuccotti Park (1)
Our friends Jim and Luanne Koper went to Zuccotti Park on Saturday and are sharing their photographs of the day.
Mitt/Mark Romney/Trail
Have you ever seen them together?
Boo
On watching the Republican presidential candidates’ debate.
Elizabeth Warren on taxation
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own.”
Eight syllables
“You should pass this bill right away.”
Mother Jones on the Kochs
Three reports from Mother Jones on Charles and David, the brothers Koch.
“Hope is better than fear”
“There are any number of American politicians who could learn something from Jack Layton.”
Mitt Romney: the soul of a poet
He’s Yeats. Or Longfellow. Or both.
Kurt Andersen on American politics
Autoimmune disorders and the paranoid style in American politics.
“[F]urther out of the solar system”
“[E]very time you think you have reached the end of Republican extremism, they manage to move further out of the solar system.”
Betty Ford (1918–2011)
From the New York Times obituary.
Rod Blagojevich found guilty
In the Dog-Bites-Man Department: an Illinois politician has been found guilty on corruption charges.
“Justice has been done”
President Obama on television
The lunatic fringe again
“Lunatic fringe” first referred to hair.
Lunatic fringe
That hair.
HOUSE TO NPR: DROP DEAD
“My NPR stations, WILL-AM and -FM, are local treasures. If they were to disappear, I’d have little reason to own a radio. I am sorry but not surprised to see that Congressman Tim Johnson (R, Illinois-15) voted to end federal funding of NPR.”
Yesterday’s vote in Wisconsin
Video. Seeing, sad to say, is believing.
Not so fast
“In thirty minutes, 18 State Senators undid fifty years of civil rights in Wisconsin.”
Infinite Jest and Mike Huckabee
“Then there are what I might call your Kamikaze-style liars. These’ll tell you a surreal and fundamentally incredible lie, and then pretend a crisis of conscience and retract the original lie, and then offer you the lie they really want you to buy instead, so the real lie’ll appear as some kind of concession, a settlement with truth. That type’s mercifully easy to see through.”
We Are Wisconsin
A short film