Okay, I'm sick to death of the election.  I'm sick to death of politics in general, where all statements have ulterior motives for engines, and the only truth is that everyone's lying to some degree. So lets get right to the nuts & bolts.

All excited about the drop in the unemployment rate?  Thrilled that it's the "Lowest in 5 Years" reported in conjunction with the fact that "employers added 92,000 new jobs" in October??????  

I'm sure you've heard by now that the government managed to publish on the internet a series of Iraqi documents that essentially tell you how to engineer a nuclear bomb.  But have you noticed the tendency to diminish the story via headlines emphasizing the partisan nature of criticisms?

Joseph Stiglitz does not toe the party line on the doings of the IMF, despite serving as chief economist and vice president of the World Bank from 1997 to 2000 (when, according to some pretty good evidence, he was dismissed under pressure from the U.S. Dept. of the Treasury, for failure to follow the program).

While Republicans and extreme right commentators love to portray criticism of the Iraq war as a recruiting tool for terrorists, they rarely mention the recruiting value of things like Abu Ghraib or the many absurdly inflammatory remarks from their own kind (such as Coulter's "invade their countries, kill their rulers and convert them to Christianity").

Unproven as yet, but far from incredible, the Denver Post is reporting that a male prostitute has told a local television station that "he has had a three-year sexual business relationship with" Ted Haggard, "founder and senior leader of the 14,000-member New Life Church in Colorado Springs and president of the multimillion- member National Association of Evangelicals."

When Republicans lost no time unleashing their well paid and tightly organized attack dogs on the story of John Kerry's recent gaffe, do you think House Majority Leader John Boehner expected that the poison boomerang would whip around and smack his butt?

But almost every university has policies prohibiting such harassment [of students who say unpopular things] along with independent appeals procedures to protect students and the integrity of the academic environment. [David] Horowitz's restrictions [in his proposed Academic Bill of Rights ], in contrast, would invite outside monitoring of the classroom, creating hostility between students and professors, and politicizing the environment.The students who agree with me want our elected leaders to focus on addressing our real concerns: student loans, skyrocketing tuition and the post-graduation job market.

Katherine Harris has a very well-deserved reputation for volatility, amazingly self-serving assessments of events, and an extremist Christian perspective on life, politics, and the murky overlap between the two.

It often helps to travel back in time and compare what relevant players were saying about something important--like Iraq--before they knew how it was going to turn out.

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