I call your attention to the "In-depth reports" headline to the left, and particularly the link on Republican John Sidney McCain III. This is a continuously updated news page with reports on the candidate, his background and his policies. Never has so much been at stake in an election. Stay informed.
Elsewhere…
Barbara Ehrenreich, writing in the New York Times, offers a fascinating take on the mindset that helped lead us into this financial collapse: the mania for "positive thinking," no matter the facts.
In the Nation, Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz lays out the financial bailout that ought to happen. The right bailout needn’t add to the national debt.
A reader takes me down memory lane, with a February article by Eliot Spitzer — yes, he of the high-cost hooker — in the Washington Post, about how the Bush administration actually stopped states from prosecuting predatory lenders. Now tell me who was getting screwed.
And be sure to check out everything by Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine, the economic "medicine" conservatives now want to apply to our banana republic. Here’s a good introduction.
I am just finishing the Shock Doctrine, and I cannot believe how much we exemplify it. I’m just stunned by what these jerks have gotten us into.
Phoenix is unbelievably depressing.
I’ve been reading Shock Doctrine, and sad to say, it just doesn’t surprise me. The Ehrenreich piece should be required reading. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had my reality discounted by folks who just read “The Secret” or some other feel-good tome.. Our denial of human suffering and tragedy, whether via anti-depressants or motivational speakers, is about to be slapped in the face by the fact that suffering is as much as inherent part of life as happiness. There is no way around that fact.