We Are In Agreement

It will be like the 90s. Except without the jobs or prosperity.

Darrell Issa's Subpoena Gameplan For 2011: Investigate ACORN, Climate-Gate And The U.S. Postal Service

Last week, Issa issued a blueprint for his agenda titled "A Constitutional Obligation: Congressional Oversight of the Executive Branch." Among the issues he chastised the Democratic leadership for not addressing: the fraud he says was committed by the community organizing group ACORN. TPM

The Republicans have gone completely insane.

Populists who pander to the richest 1%, promoters of unsustainable tax-cuts who demand a balanced budget.

Up is down, black is white, dogs marrying cats...

They can't control their own party, punchlines like Christine O'Donnell are defeating qualified challengers ... ghouls, theives and morons swarming out of the floorboards.

I think there's a 10% chance that Gozar will get the 2012 GOP nod.

This is amazing, and heartening...

According to research (PDF) carried out by Michael I. Norton of Harvard Business School and Dan Ariely of Duke University, and flagged by Paul Kedrosky at the Infectious Greed blog, 92 percent of Americans would choose to live in a society with far less income disparity than the US, choosing Sweden’s model over that of the US.

Bolding mine.

Ninety. Two. Percent.

For all the the frothing lunancy we see from both sides of the aisle, at the end of the day, Americans agree that it would be nice to not live in a country where the richest 1% control 24% of the GDP.

We're all very similiar, despite what the pundits say.

The Raw Story

NYC Tapwater includes free Shrimp

You Swallow These Invisible Shrimp With Every Gulp of NYC Tap Water

Delicious

I hope the next mayor runs on a Free Cocktail Sauce platform.

Ping

iTunes 10, which was released yesterday, includes some kind of social networking function. I'll participate only if I can closely guard my guilty pleasures. No reason to share my love for Ted Nugent and Justin Timberlake.