Shutting down debate

by | Aug 7, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Interesting to note that the ginned-up astroturf campaign to keep our awesome for-profit healthcare system (best in the world except for 36 better ones, including leading lights like Costa Rica, Andorra and Malta, said the World Health Organization a few years ago)...

Aw-shucks theater

by | Aug 10, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Those townhall disrupters–just reg'lar folk, out to raise their voices? I'm sure some of them are. Many of them appear to be frightened people who are old enough to oppose government in healthcare while participating in Medicare, the government...

Thugs in the night

by | Aug 12, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Josh Marshall introduces the hammer to the nail: The health care debate is now being driven by a perverse nonsense feedback loop in which the Palin/Limbaugh crowd says all sorts of completely insane lies, gets a lot of… how shall we put it, impressionable people...

Whistleblower extraordinaire

by | Aug 13, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Ah, what fun. Take an afternoon off, and the comment section gains orbital velocity, takes a couple of laps around Saturn and crashes into Titan. Better that than crickets, I suppose. At the risk of igniting more, I'll say this–to me, it's a simple...