Ever notice that any attempt"any attempt at all"to restrain corporate actions in any way"any way at all"immediately produces a spate of articles and studies showing that the attempt is outrageous (or destructively expensive or costing jobs or putting the US at a disadvantage or contrary to the universal desires of God and nature)? Take corporate taxes (I wish the government would take some).

According to USA Today, the much insipid TSA has decided it's time to take on general aviation...

Sort of, that is....

So Obama has the audacity to point out that under-inflated tires can save as much oil--now--as we might obtain from the GOPs new drilling proposals--years from now. Well, it doesn't take the GOP (Geniuses on Parade) long to think, "Eureka! This could be Obama's Dukakis in a tank moment. Assemble the ridicule brigades! Call up the derision squad and arm them with extra irony and exclamation points!!!!!!!" But.....

The great Texas progressive Jim Hightower has occasionally been urged to moderate his insistence on fundamental change. His response is a classic of disdain: "The only things in the middle of the road are yellow stripes and dead armadillos." As it writes its 2008 platform, the Democratic Party should remember Hightower's wisdom. This is no time to be going backward, either on principle or as a tactical concession.

Everybody considers Barack Obama through the self-reflective prism of his blackness while pretending to ignore the fact that Obama is black. White Democratic primary voters made all manner of unsupported assumptions about Obama based largely on his skin. There was absolutely no indication that he was a progressive true believer.

I used to electronically converse with a born again Christian who used a retrospective definition of "Christian." In his view, people who did bad things could never be Christians, because Christians don't do bad things. That little loop of illogic seems to run deep through right wingers, whether they be Christian or other. So let's talk about good old Mr. Adkisson, who just went berserk in that Unitarian Universalist (UU) church in Tennessee.

The old "what's in a name" question occurred to me as I read a recent bylined piece from Reuters bearing the headline "Majority of economists see McCain better for stocks: poll." Wow. "The majority of economists" out of the tons of "economists" in America, of every stripe and persuasion.

Yeah, right. Only if you make a double misrepresentation about who was polled.

Being a Palmetto state liberal doesn't come easy; among such things you wish were different was that we still had our beloved Senator "Fritz" Hollings back in his office. He was interviewed the other night on PBS' Bill Moyers Journal, and what he said didn't surprise nor shock me.

But, I damned near vomited all the same...

You can call this trivial and nitpicking if you want, but....the "John McCain isn't old" campaign seems to be in full swing, in that barely competent McCain campaign way. BuzzFlash has a "what's your caption" piecebased on John McCain's Facebook picture showing a tall slender John McCain. It's so obviously off that I felt compelled to check to make sure the photo really is from McCain's Facebook page; it is.

What's with the WaPo this time, I have to wonder?

Hmm, could it be another snow job?

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