Three Thoughts
by tristero
1
Stupidest thing anyone's written in a long time - well, at least since Thomas Friedman's latest column: Who could have imagined that different-drummer McCain would emerge as a press-conference-avoiding, media-baiting, fact-fabricating generic Republican?
2
People are strange. I honestly thought that the wheels would come off the McCain/Bush/Palin campaign once the press realized that the reason why Palin forced rape victims to pay for rape kits was because they contained emergency contraception. I have to confess that when I read that I actually gasped with horror and disgust. I couldn't suppress the thought that if the word "evil" has a meaning, this woman embodies it.
3
Naomi Klein published a brilliant article in Rolling Stone about the surveillance industry in China and the illegal American connections to it. The article also made the point that China was evolving a new governing philosophy, kind of a "Stalinist-capitalism." As the US seeks to nationalize more and more failing brokers, banks and insurance companies, while also shredding what's left of the Constitution's safeguards, it seems as if we're evolving into a capitalist-Stalinist state.
O, brave new world...