Race to the bottom.
Racism remains a strong undercurrent in American life, and so long as it does, there will be those who will use it to their political advantage.
Boss-capades.
Our system works best for the ownership class when there’s a massive surplus of workers. Keeps the rabble in line.
Stuff and nonsense.
Big as this blowout is, our problem is bigger than that. Let’s make the solution bigger, too.
E Pluribus BBQ.
Democrats are missing a great opportunity to demonstrate that their pro-working stiff rhetoric isn’t just a lot of hot air. (Unless, of course, it is.)
War fog.
Here’s the strategy we need in Afghanistan, in three words: Get. Out. Now.
The boatload principle.
Our regulatory mechanisms are mere appendages of the industries they are charged with overseeing.
Hammered.
First Krauthammer blames the gulf spill on environmentalists. Then he calls occupation “forward defense”. What next?
War dead.
When we praise our war dead, let’s think about what they were asked to do and why.
Money spill.
BP execs must be held accountable, as well as the contracting firms and the corruptly dysfunctional system of regulation that aided them.
Backlash.
Personally, I think they should break BP into a million pieces and cash each fragment in as a downpayment on the damage they’ve done through their greed and negligence.