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Our Crappy Political System Killed Gun Checks -- Daily Intelligencer

Debt And Growth

I read R&R's book. It's an interesting historical survey. And totally inapplicable to our current monetary system, and thus fairly useless as an analysis of or commentary on our current macroeconomic climate. And this article points out that they appear to be cooking the numbers to support their thesis.

The Hell of American Day Care

via LG&M

Because I'm not depressed enough today. 

The Hell of American Day Care An investigation into the barely regulated, unsafe business of looking after our children

Why the Rhee Scandal Matters

Re-post from LG&M, cuz I ain't got time fer nuthin' else.

It's All About The Benjamins

The "MOAR" in this piece is spot on. Some good comments to the post as well.

A snippet:

The culture has moved and unlike social cons, the Rulers will adapt to that — are adapting. Wars will continue as long as they are profitable, the police state will grow, the poor and middle class robbed and bullied, the crown jewel of social security ripe for the picking. The Rulers got to be Rulers by using and discarding things and people as needed. Red State White Trash Blue Balled morons butthurt about sluts’ abortions and homo-marriage were once useful but are now increasingly a liability and will be treated like it, they just don’t know it yet.

If You Want A Progresive Government

Stop thinking it will happen from the top down, and that a victory every 4 years in the Presidential election is enough.

Really F*cking Awful Judicial Opinion From a *GASP* Right-Wing Court

This enrages me to the point of incoherence. Luckily, smarter, calmer folk can at least articulate why this is SO FUCKED UP.

Why Do They Hate Democracy?

 [via LG&M]
An estimated 200,000 votes were not cast in Florida due to absurdly long wait times.

Even if the estimate is off by a factor of ten, that's 20,000 people who were effectively disenfranchised for no discernible or defensible reason, due at least in part to the Republican state government. But remember, the Republicans love freedom and America, and the Democrats are the Fascist America-haters.

That said, the worst county, per the article, is majority-Republican. Of course, I don't actually care, I just want people to be able to vote easily, regardless of party. Why we do not have a National holiday for voting is incomprehensible to me.