Boston Says Goodbye

To a Great Man.

RIP Teddy

Uh Oh

Krugman is not pleased. i'm getting a little nervous myself. the health care debate is a mess and i'm afraid we'll end up with legislation that's meaningless. maybe rahm's "do it all at once" strategy isn't working so much. i know, i know, it's only been 9 months and obama inherited a country in distress. but still...

the money quote:

"It’s hard to avoid the sense that Mr. Obama has wasted months trying to appease people who can’t be appeased, and who take every concession as a sign that he can be rolled."

Nature makes us nicer

New research finds those who feel a strong connection to the natural world have a more caring attitude toward others.

http://www.miller-mccune.com/news/immersion-in-nature-makes-us-nicer-1430

But then ... why are rural areas conservative? Please tell me that logic isn't incomprehensible. (Highly flawed, yes, but ya follow me, right?)

Barney Frank takes no shit

he's my hero. finally, the voice of reason in the absurd debate around health care.

This is what Palin started...

i blame her. And scary, and stupid, and macho and stupid republican haters.

TPM has an interesting post on the lovely phenomenon of assault weapons at health care rallies. health. care. rallies.

jeezus, you piss of democrats you get a peace rally with homemade signs by seana. piss of a republican and you get racism and death threats. nice.

Repugnant...Repugnanter...Repugnantest

These psychos-come-lately like Beck try to establish their wingut cred by doing things like pretending to offer the Speaker of the House of Representatives wine with poison in it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAii_MxDklw

And psycho-emeritus Boss Limbaugh plays the Hitler card again (I don't even like being snarky about this because it is so beyond the pale. So reprehensible):
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/07/limbaugh/

But, really, shame on us for letting our guard down and forgetting who is the Queen of BatShitInsaneLand. You can see stupid from her house:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/palin-obamas-death-panel-could-kill-my-down-syndrome-baby.php?ref=fpblg

"In a new posting on her Facebook account, former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) made a dire statement about health care reform -- that it could result in an Obama-created "death panel" killing her infant son with Down Syndrome:
The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's "death panel" so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil."

Have these people reached the Jump the Shark point? I mean, does anyone other than the whack-job-far-right believe anything they say anymore? I mean, what the fuck.