photo: Online commenters reach an ugly new low, as death threats follow negative reviews of the new Batman movie
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/18/jerks_defend_dark_knight/

Online commenters reach an ugly new low, as death threats follow negative reviews of the new Batman movie

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/18/jerks_defend_dark_knight/

It made me very angry that they couldn’t provide better emergency services for my son,” Dana Blum told the online magazine Momlogic. “I feel like he was murdered.

Is there any validity to Michele Bachmann’s Muslim “witch hunt”?

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/17/alex_seitz_wald_on_360/

excerpt from “Pop” by Barack Obama, spring 1981, Occidental College 

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/17/obamas_inspector_javert/

Sitting in his seat, a seat broad and broken
In, sprinkled with ashes
Pop switches channels, takes another
Shot of Seagrams, neat, and asks
What to do with me, a green young man
Who fails to consider the
Flim and Flam of the world…
Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because it happens to be the larger component of international violence. But also for a much more important reason than that; namely, I can do something about it. So even if the U.S. was responsible for 2 percent of the violence in the world instead of the majority of it, it would be that 2 percent I would be primarily responsible for. And that is a simple ethical judgment. That is, the ethical value of one’s actions depends on their anticipated and predictable consequences. It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century.
photo: So, which is it: fantastically horrible, or horribly fantastic?
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/16/newsroom_gets_worse/

So, which is it: fantastically horrible, or horribly fantastic?

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/16/newsroom_gets_worse/

photo: Conservatives are happier than liberals: It’s a fact. What left-leaning people can learn from the “happiness gap” 

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/16/conservatism_makes_you_happy/

Conservatives are happier than liberals: It’s a fact. What left-leaning people can learn from the “happiness gap” 


http://www.salon.com/2012/07/16/conservatism_makes_you_happy/

photo: Why are conservatives and triangulating Democrats suddenly worried that Obama has killed Clinton’s welfare reform?

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/16/triangulators_panic_obama_weakening_welfare_reform/

Why are conservatives and triangulating Democrats suddenly worried that Obama has killed Clinton’s welfare reform?


http://www.salon.com/2012/07/16/triangulators_panic_obama_weakening_welfare_reform/

Glenn Greenwald’s scorched Earth take-down of Harold Ford Jr. made the headlines in Memphis.

photo: David Brooks says the counterculture explains Wall Street greed. The man is a glutton for punishment!!!

David Brooks says the counterculture explains Wall Street greed. The man is a glutton for punishment!!!