Starting last June, the global economy began to fall apart; and in September it rolled off the table and entered what can only be called “freefall.” That is, usually in economics, one person’s misfortune is another person’s gain. If prices drop, at least someone is convinced to spend. Instead, job losses begat job losses, and bank failures begat bank failures.

So I see wingnuts like the Pantload are telling us that James von Brunn’s anti-Semitism is proof that he’s a lefty. Leaving aside the absurdity of reducing an individual’s overall political orientation to a single feature (Hitler favored low taxes — just like Republicans!), anti-Semitism in the United States has been a staple of the far-right for decades, from Henry Ford to Charles Lindbergh to Pat Buchanan — you even saw it during the Great Teabagging.

Reading The Great Crash 1929 is like reading a pre-history of the great crash of 2008.

If we want an extravagant democracy, we should live together like one another’s crazy aunts and uncles.

a small change in the administration position

I’ve been consumed with writing about the supplemental over at the Silo for the past few days, but I wanted to take a moment to address something that I’d be writing about a lot if I wasn’t — namely the brief filed by the Department of Justice over DOMA.John Aravosis and Joe Sudbay managed to obtain a copy of the brief, and AmericaBlog has covered this superbly.  But Joe writes something that I hope everyone considers when writing about this.

It appears Steven Bradbury wrote three memos in May 2005 to hide the authorization for waterboarding an unnamed detainee.

Health care, a little Iran. Food, Inc. And, CNN “James Carville and Mary Matalin analyze political news of the week and highlights from the other Sunday shows.”

Pixie & Dixie and Mr. Jinks starring in Cat-Nap Cat.  This 1959 Hanna-Barbera cartoon was directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.  Production supervision by Howard Hanson.  Animation by Kenneth Muse.  Layout by Dick Bickenbach.  Backgrounds by Robert Gentle.  Titles by Lawrence Goble.  Dialogue and story sketches by Charles Shows and Dan Gordon.  

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Jonah Goldberg is back with the blather about the “perfect GOP candidate,” which he seems to think should be some combination of Dick Cheney and Charo — a spicy Hispanic senorita with a heart of turd. But Jonah is stupid; maybe the GOP needs someone else. Let’s help them out!