…things you may have missed and some good reads.
Vonnegut’s Blues for America… An exerpt:
No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious and charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC
Those Eight Pages (The redacted ones. Anyone remember the Plame Investigation?) over at The Next Hurrah.
So, now oversight is unconstitiional? “FISA Law May be Unconstitutional” will be the new talking point proffered by the right-wing noise machine as the FISA Congressional hearings heat up.
The Blame Game. Ever notice how all failures by the Bush Administration to sufficiently manage and garner support with the Republican dominated Congress are always the fault of the Democrats? I have. It’s a brilliant Rovian tactic that keeps the base hating the opposition “Liberals” and keeps Bush’s hands clean. This is the first bulwark that must be breeched if the Democrats wish to regain the majority on the Hill this year.
The headline reads: “Eavesdropping yields few terror leads, sources say / Artificial intelligence systems rank data for humans to probe“… the really important graph reads:
The scale of warrantless surveillance, and the high proportion of bystanders swept in, sheds new light on Bush’s circumvention of the courts. National security lawyers, in and out of government, said the washout rate raised fresh doubts about the program’s lawfulness under the Fourth Amendment, because a search cannot be judged “reasonable” if it is based on evidence that experience shows to be unreliable.
…and Atrios, The Road to Surfdom, Upper Left, Oliver Willis, and Think Progress all have posts (or comments therin) worth noting.
And, Avedon Carol has the usual linkorama of good material to read, including the latest from Krugman, and a must read by Kung Fu Monkey who dissects a right-wing attempt at bashing Hollywood, but gets the facts all wrong. Sounds pretty familiar. If only I had half of KFM’s patience and humor.
