Good Wednesday noon Fellow Seekers of Wisdom and Truth,
Paul Krugman, the economist and New York Times columnist, has just launched a new blog called “The Conscience of a Liberal,” which is also the name of Krugman’s forthcoming book, and was the title of Paul Wellstone’s last book.
Krugman decided to launch with this graphic…

I’ve seen the op-ed version of Gen. David Petraeus’ report from Baghdad. There’s a link below. This is not a joke, but there is a surprise ending, unless you already know it. To me, it was a surprise when a friend referred me yesterday to the op-ed. Here are outtakes from the Petraeus piece:
“There are […]

Good Friday noon Fellow Seekers,
See if you can figure out why New Republic Senior Editor John Judis believes experiments conducted by three psychologists like the one described just below provide a key to Pres. Bush’s political success from 2001 to 2005. In one experiment, the psychologists:
“assembled 22 Tucson municipal court judges. They told the judges […]

Marc Ash of the lefty aggregator site Truthout hurls himself against the one thing almost everyone thinks they know about Karl Rove, that he was a political genius. His philippic is one-sided, heartfelt and admirably brief. Why can’t I write short like that? Okay, I just did.