sim'-pli-cis-m: (n) The belief that the answers to all problems, no matter how complex they may seem, are easy to understand and uncomplicated by nuance or ambiguity.

It has become part of the left-wing's conventional wisdom that Tea Partiers are crushingly stoopid (TBogg calls t

I've been putting off writing this because it's simply too depressing once you put it into words, but somebody has to say it and it seems to be my role. Everybody, especially economists like Krugman and Baker, have been dancing around this for weeks, unable to bring themselves to state

Even as we speak, Democrat leaders are most likely meeting in emergency session to try to figure out what to do about the latest bad news: everybody hates the Pubs and their policies.

Voters' opinions of the Republican Party are now at an all-time low. According to a new WSJ/NBC

Let's start with James Kunstler at Clusterfuck Nation . (Via Mark)

The greatest loss of the last decade was not in 401-Ks or manufacturing jobs or foreclosed houses, but the rule of law. Without genuine rule of law, anything goes and nothing matters. As a consequence of that, fin

Apparently the Right has decided that it isn't enough to attack any judicial decision they don't like on the basis of the fact that a judge made it, as per the recent charges over the California same sex decision. No, it is now necessary, from their point of view, to disconnect the/

There has been a feeling in some quarters (not mine, of course) that President Obama has been holding back. If that was true, it is true no longer, I'd say. In the last couple of days we've seen two pretty bold moves on his part, not that he expected anybody to

In the Old Days before the WaPo decided to become an upscale Washington Times and Rupert Murdoch single-handedly LCD'd the MSM, there were major oil spills, too. They caused lots of trouble and cost lots of money to clean up and many homes and businesses were ruined because the press didn't

(As we rejoin our heroes, they are on the last stretch of highway to Brewster, where they will meet for the first time their archenemy, Letitia Mortimer, the fiend who stole Aunt Harriet's treasu

Two articles this week demonstrate between them how our new plutonomy works, and you'll notice that in neither case does any actual product have to be made or sold. Nodody has to build anything so it doesn't have to be quality-controlled and no laborer has to be paid to put it together. In/

Just how fucking right-wing is the New Democrat/Blue Dog party? So fucking far right-wing that Rahm Emanuel protege Jim Webb, Sen from Virginia and an undeniable star in the ND/BD firmament, could actually write a WSJ Op-Ed against diversity and affirmative action policies using the same ex/

Even the WSJ has noticed. (Via Roy Edroso)

At the largest progressive gathering ahead of the 2010 elections, liberal activists huddled Friday in a session to plot strategy to protect Social Security from renewed Republican efforts to privatize the program. A woman stood up and asked: "Why is it

It has become pitifully clear in the last few weeks that Obama's so-called "Deficit Commission" was deliberately overloaded with deficit vultures who would march in lockstep to gin up yet another Social Security "crisis" as propaganda. The agenda these right-wing experts, led by billionaire Pete Pete

Dear Mr Krugman:

I am a big fan and much appreciative of the courageous stands you took during the Bush Years and the balance you've tried to maintain in the early Obama Admin, but I must say I think you continually miss the point when it comes to explaining Obama's

Blue Texan at FDL catches Slate's Gingrich Pin Up Boy William Saleton opining that any lefty who doesn't support Obama's every move is a political idiot and a danger to the race of real men.

I'm happy with everything he's [President Obama] done. [...] For them [progressives] to be complaining

One hardly knows what to say. Dares one hope that some form of reality, however weak and watered down, is finally forcing its way through the gated, security-guarded, and electrified fences of the corporate aristocracy? Or not? On the one hand Goldman got away with its illegal stock-maneuvering

Just about a year ago, a Deutchebank analyst figured out that by the end of this summer, more than half the mortgages in the country would be underwater. That process has begun. In May the mortgage delinquency rate - which the Masters of the Universe and their media puppets insisted would d/

The Obama Admin is mystified, though why they should be defies explanation.

The fine arose from an incident wherein a WM employee was trampled to death in Long Island two years ago during the insanity of the day-after-Thanksgiving bargain shopping.

Wal-Mart Stores has spent a year and more tha

When was the Last Independence Day?

For those of you keeping track, it was last year. This year the truth has become all too painfully obvious. Joel Pett, political cartoonist for the Lexington Herald-Leader, sums it up neatly.

We are locked down, locked into a system which, whe

Once we got all that straightened out and Diego introduced us, we got on fine. I even liked him, the way you might like a big dumb puppy who, yes, blunders around breaking the furniture, but you can tell even while

In the midst of the hand-wringing, the confusion, the anger, and the destruction of BeePee's "we brought it on ourselves with greed and stupidity but you're going to pay for it, not us" environmental catastrophe, Jim Hightower points out that a couple of minor, though collateral, issues hav/