Yesterday's QUOTES ...

The President of the United States has openly, proudly admitted that he approved the use of interrogation methods that are by every measure -- including the measure of United States law -- criminal acts of torture. It is one of the most brazen and scandalous confessions of wrongdoing ever uttered by an American leader -- and it has had no impact whatsoever. No scandal, no outcry, no protest, no prosecution.

... As obvious as it seems, men who fetishize warrior values and fail to live up to them, often feel they have something to prove. That's at least partly how we wind up with people sitting around a table calling Colin Powell a wimp for timidly mentioning that torture might not be a good idea.

Perhaps it is time to reconsider our social currency.

Employers' needs are not the object of government. The public interest, that forgotten quantity, is its purpose. ...

Myths that the United States is a nation of laws, not men, die hard. ...

First they came for the spinach ...

... a must read: E. coli conservatives by Rick Perlstein

Surveying the results, what once looked to me like principle now looks to me now like mania. Conservatism has been killing Americans. The recent food safety crisis is only one case study.

Let's start connecting the dots.

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