CCB. Cut, Cap, and Balance, or Catastrpohic and Complete Bull?

An absolute must-read from BillyBlog.

Like Suicide - Acoustic Version

Soundgarden on tour and coming to Rock Band 3, plus the debt limit crisis, and I thought of this:

In Lieu Of The Corporate Media's Idiocy

I strongly recommend listening to the discussion with Dean Baker here. Skip to 16:50 to hear it. If you don't, I warn you, you'll have to endure Mitch McConnell getting it horribly, horribly wrong.

You Can Sue The Dummy, But Not The Ventriloquist

Another legal abomination brought to you by the extremist Roberts Court.

[via LG&M]

Boom. Roasted.

[via Instaputz]

To all you rabid anti-government types:

It is the refuge of a scoundrel to pretend to hate government, and further, to lie about the role that the American government — the richest and most powerful force for good in the long story of humanity — has played in the creation of the most profound economic engine ever, the America middle class. Notions of American greatness are inextricably intertwined with the American government, and anyone who claims that the government has only been an impediment to American progress is a liar, a fool, a rank opportunist, or a combination of the three. That GI Bill didn't create itself. That Interstate Highway System didn't build itself. Those astronauts didn't send themselves to the moon. Your grandmamma and them didn't get electricity in their farmhouse on their own initiative. Small business didn't create a vast system of free public education, because an educated population makes for good workers and consumers. That was the government. The miracle of the free market didn't end slavery, or solve the pernicious problem that followed of grotesquely institutionalized racism. Nor did the free market end child labor, and decide that food and worker safety were critical values to a civilized society, and essential to a civilized standard of living. That was the government, too. 

I (and the millions we've killed or enslaved) am not so sure about the "force for good" thing, but this is otherwise spot on.

The Tea Party Caucus Takes On The Debt Monster

Breaking video of the brave Tea Party Republicans' plan to save the economy by allowing the U.S. to default.

Dis And Dat

First, one of the best lines ever, from John Cole of Balloon Juice: "When I need a medical procedure done, I often consult two doctors, and then I check with a needle junky and a crack whore. Just so I have a wide array of opinions and can keep my options open."

On Being Poor In America

[via Balloon Juice]
This makes me too angry to write about. So just read these links:

Man Jailed For Cashing A Check.

5 Things No One Tells You About Being Poor.