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This is fucking retarded.

An editorial in Friday’s New York Times advocates for Hamid Karzai to hand over responsibility for economic redevelopment of Afghanistan from the United Nations to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Such a move would do nothing more than complete the rape of Afghanistan by the west and institute policies that Naomi Klein documented in The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.

It’s a testament to the institutional power of the Republican Party that not even the man Charlie Crist appointed to the US Senate, his former chief of staff, would follow him to an independent bid if Crist decided on that option.

Sometimes I wonder why I even bother.

Accidents will happen, but this one reminds us that agreeing to more offshore drilling increases the risk of environmental pollution and human tragedy. Over the past decade, 69 people have died on offshore rigs, and there have been 858 fires and explosions, according to the Minerals Management Service. So these are more than just isolated incidents and must be factored into the cost of drilling.

Scott Bloch, the former head of the Office of Special Counsel is copping a plea.

And the backlash against Michael Steele begins.

Michael Steele discovers political parties are supposed to raise more money than they spend, is offended.

Scenes from The Addams Family movie set to The Masochism Tango peformed by Tom Lerher becomes The Addams Family Masochism Tango.