SEPTEMBER 2013

WSJ OP-ED WRITER ELIZABETH O'BAGY:

The Syria researcher whose Wall Street Journal op-piece was cited by Secretary of State John Kerry and Sen. John McCain during congressional hearings about the use of force has been fired from the Institute for the Study of War for lying about having a PhD.

OBAMACARE 
The truth is that the only reason this family would have to change doctors is if they for some reason change insurance companies by either moving, changing jobs, or their employer changing carriers, or whatever. Obamacare will not make people change doctors. Only their employers or their insurance company would make them change doctors. And chances are more than likely that the doctors in their area don't just accept one kind of insurance.

CHOICES - THOMAS PYNCHON 

The book’s real accomplishment is to claim the last decade as Pynchon territory, a continuation of the same tensions—between freedom and captivity, momentum and entropy, meaning and chaos.

 Stephen Jay Gould on lost genius

“I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” – Stephen Jay Gould succinctly explains why I think all children deserve an incredibly good education, regardless of the cost to all of us.

 Where the jobs went. Outsourcing (or offshoring) is a bigger contributor to unemployment in the U.S. than laziness.

Since 2000, U.S. multinationals have cut 2.9 million jobs here while increasing employment overseas by 2.4 million. This is likely just the tip of the iceberg as multinational corporations account for only about 20% of the labor force.

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Chuck Norris wears Vladamir Putin pajamas to bed.

Dana Rohrabacher (R- Ca) losing to Putin in arm whrestling

RALPH NADER:

On October 26, 2000, Eric Alterman wrote in The Nation, "Nader has been campaigning aggressively in Florida, Minnesota, Michigan, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin. If Gore loses even a few of those states, then Hello, President Bush. And if Bush does win, then Goodbye to so much of what Nader and his followers profess to cherish."
SULY ON MIKE ALLEN OF POLITICO:

Mike Allen appears to have given up being Cheney’s stenographerand sycophant and become Roger Ailes’ instead.  Unless I am reading it wrong, a guest-piece by Mike Allen on the new Fox News line-up is sitting uncomfortably in Dylan Byers’ blog at Politico. I say uncomfortably because Byers is an excellent media reporter...