How do you explain something to people that you yourself don’t even understand completely, or even tangentially? I don’t know how to do it. Neither does the media. Neither do Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke. Can someone please explain to me why we need to dump our hard-earned taxpayer money into underperforming financial companies? Shit, [...]

I see you baby…lying out your ass. It could be reassuring to Dems that the Republicans have resorted to out-and-out lying, that this is perhaps the only path to a win in the presidential election this year, but it isn’t. These are dark days in our nation’s history. I’ve written before about how the country is on [...]

I can’t look at my computer screen here at work for more than a minute before seeing some new revelation about Sarah Palin, Senator McCain’s running mate for the November election. Bam, Bam, Bam, Bam, Bam, Bam, Bam. One after the other. Yes, all those “Bam”s are separate links about different stuff we are learning [...]