DemocraticUnderground.com post: The World's Economic Problems Can Be Summed Up In One Sentence

The sentence being: IT'S ABOUT TOO MUCH MONEY GOING TO TOO FEW PEOPLE!

I love this post/rant.  My faves:

"I love football but when a Super Bowl ticket goes for $288,000 and people out of work can't get jobless benefits . . . too much money is going to too ( Read more... )

[ I wrote this originally as a comment on uncle_dan_nyc's LJ, but I thought it was interesting enough to post outright on mine ( Read more... )

If I had told you in November 2007 that in exactly one year ( Read more... )

"Now this sort of [irrational exuberance] will wane in a while, because the realities of power will cause Obama to make choices that will disappoint a lot of people."    - Bill Moyers speaking to Terry Gross on "Fresh Air", 11/5/08 ( Read more... )

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What my friend Desiree is doing with her PhD
out there in Wisconsin:

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Frank Rich of the New York Times reminds us in his column this week that John McCain once told a horrible, awful joke in public regarding Hilary Clinton, Janet Reno, and Chelsea Clinton (yes, young Chelsea).

( McCain's tasteless, public Clinton/Reno joke )

Wow, so McCain picked Michael Palin to be his running mate? That is so bold, esp. since I don't think the former Monty Python member can actually become President according to the Constitution.

(What? Huh? Oh Sarah Palin. Well now that's something completely different ( Read more... )

"Hey sweetie, it's Mom. I just wanted to call and share one little second with you about, you know, on this historic night ( Read more... )

"We’re hoping he picks an idiot as vice president."

- Mike Sweeney, head writer on "Late Night with Conan O’Brien", on the difficulties of satirizing Barack Obama.

(the original article can be found here)