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Around the Blogroll and Elsewhere: Because I Just Can't edition

Because I got up at 4:30 AM this morning, I'm tired, and my customary prowl around the Intartoobz this morning has me so pissed off already I just can't even speak.

Let's start with Amanda today, as the Republicans start to show their true colors about abortion: that they believe women are just a bunch of dirty sluts.

Driftglass takes on David "No End of Life Care for Geezers" Brooks (who doesn't seem to realize that he is one).

If you haven't checked out Keith Olbermann's new blog, FOK News Channel, you should do it now, and bookmark it. Sure, he's a Big Name and linking to him isn't exactly in the spirit of Blogroll Amnesty Day (or in the case of this blog and many others, Blogroll Amnesty LIFE), but he's a damn good blogger. Start here.

Mike Stark calls Rush Limbaugh again.

As Republicans start feeling safe saying that all women who have sex are whores, and all public school teachers (most of whom are still women) are lazy bitches who shouldn't get paid; as the Republican jihad against women really kicks into gear, Shelby Knox kicks off Women's History Month.

Speaking about Republican jihads against everyone who isn't one of them, here's Digby on Haley Barbour and the resurrection of Ronald Reagan's welfare queen meme.

Ted Frier on the hostile corporate takeover of Wisconsin -- and elsewhere.

And in closing: This segment from The Last Word made me wonder if I'd entered a time warp and gone back in time to 1968, since we once again have Republicans talking about unwashed smelly hippies:

Have as non-shitty a day as you can.

mercredi 2 mars 2011

Wednesday Big Blue Smurf Blogging: What They Said

Yesterday's David Brooks column had me so angry I thought the back of my head was going to explode. I was so angry it rendered me speechless. Fortunately, Tom Scocca has more intestinal fortitude than I do, and that makes him today's honoree.

Money quote:

What happens when there is no money to give to the people who have no money? That is the moral question. It's fine to say that the old people should have saved more, they should have worked an extra job, they should have done without cable TV, they should have invested more wisely. Saying that doesn't change the fact that there will be old people who do not have money. These old people will believe that they need food and shelter and medical care.

Will they get it? At the arch-plutocrats' end of things, the Koch brothers' end, the end occupied by the most devout worshippers of Ayn Rand, the answer is: no. That's the goal. It's long since time for the sloppy, implicit, badly supported social contract to go away. Rich people have been trimming their contribution to the general revenue for decades now. They are not interested in paying the premium that keeps old people and ailing people or just backward people out of the streets. If the day comes that they have to travel to and from their various compounds in armored helicopters, they can afford the helicopters. It's not their problem.

David Brooks do not believe they are that kind of person. David Brooks are responsible. David Brooks care about the need to "invest" in "effectiveness" for all.

Alas, living is not effective. Employers have stopped paying people for their post-productive years. They have done this, welfare-capitalistically, with the sense that the cost and responsibility they are shedding will be picked up by...someone, somewhere.