Thanks, Clearthinker.

I guess I'm just not inclined to despair, generally speaking. There are many, many things we can do (as I mentioned in the article) - one of the most important thing is to despair of the idea that we can arrange and run things as they are currently arranged and run. Cheap oil was mandatory for the way logistics and transport worked from about 1920 up until now: no "new technology" is going to allow us to continue to live in a car- and truck-dependent way. To attempt to prop it up (with bio-diesel, methanol, plug-in hybrids, etc., or even all these things put together) is a colossal waste of time and effort - we can't afford to go that dead-end route.

Posted at July 4, 2008 2:41 PM in response to Welcome to "Eventually"

How about writing these with a different POV than, "Those scurrilous liars are accusing Obama of wanting to tax our precious rich!!1!!"

The top marginal tax rate in 1955, under than notorious Leninist, Eisenhower, was 91.5 Percent. Raise taxes by a bunch, on the rich, to pay for Baby Bush's budget-breaking War making.

See? Was that so hard?

Posted at July 2, 2008 1:13 AM in response to Muddy Brooks

I propose a headline to accompany every story about Nader: "Professional Narcissist Ralph Nader Continues Career of Self-Parody."

Posted at June 25, 2008 5:08 PM in response to Nader To Obama: You Want To Talk White?

Is your "Eye" Natalie Portman, Ellen?

Posted at June 21, 2008 12:14 AM in response to Politics Below the Coasian Floor.

Obama's Tough response:

I refuse to be lectured on national security by people who are responsible for the most disastrous set of foreign policy decisions in the recent history of the United States. The other side likes to use 9/11 as a political bludgeon. Well, let’s talk about 9/11.

The people who were responsible for murdering 3,000 Americans on 9/11 have not been brought to justice. They are Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda and their sponsors – the Taliban. They were in Afghanistan. And yet George Bush and John McCain decided in 2002 that we should take our eye off of Afghanistan so that we could invade and occupy a country that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11. The case for war in Iraq was so thin that George Bush and John McCain had to hype the threat of Saddam Hussein, and make false promises that we’d be greeted as liberators. They misled the American people, and took us into a misguided war.

Here are the results of their policy. Osama bin Laden and his top leadership – the people who murdered 3000 Americans – have a safe-haven in northwest Pakistan, where they operate with such freedom of action that they can still put out hate-filled audiotapes to the outside world. That’s the result of the Bush-McCain approach to the war on terrorism.

Posted at June 19, 2008 7:58 PM in response to McCain: I Will Kill Bin Laden; Obama Won't Say What He'd Do

You'll be updating the story with Obama's response, right?

Posted at June 19, 2008 4:28 PM in response to McCain: I Will Kill Bin Laden; Obama Won't Say What He'd Do

Or even, "Demos: going for just 270 Electoral votes is thinking too small."

Posted at June 16, 2008 4:00 PM in response to Obama Camp Downplays Ohio and Florida As Must-Wins

Obama's organizational aptitude is going to be studied by political scientists for decades into the future. He's going to clean McCain's clock in November.

Posted at June 12, 2008 3:12 PM in response to Obama Taking Over Democratic National Committee Partly To Avoid Kerry's Fate

Carter hasn't been President in, what? 30 Years?

Most folks, when they think about him at all, think of a peace-making Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

For a war-weary public, let's just say there are probably worse associations.

Posted at June 9, 2008 9:29 PM in response to McCain: Obama Would Equal Carter's Second Term

IS

Posted at June 6, 2008 12:37 AM in response to All Hail idiotic!