Random, occasionally rambling thoughts with links to interesting, scandalous, or partisan news of the day.

Fair and Balanced

Dead Heroes
• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Jefferson
• Benjamin Franklin
  

Living Heroes
We owe the liberty and freedom we take for granted to the enlisted men and women in the armed forces. They sacrifice family, ease, and even life laboring in service to all of us. The least we can do for them is honor their devotion with dignified pay scales, decent education for themselves and their children, and reasonable compensation for service away from their families and death on the battlefield. Flag waving politicians who praise the troops on one hand and cut their pay and benefits with the other should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

Blogs I Read Often
• Talking Points Memo
• Atrios
• FireDogLake
• Brad DeLong
• The Daily Howler
• Daily Kos
• Glenn Greenwald
• MyDD
• The News Blog
• Oliver Willis
• Political Wire
• The Volokh Conspiracy
  

The New Republic Online: Axle of Evil What can I do to persuade you to read this article? Make it your blog duty of the day. We have all been duped by Detroit and ill served by a compliant Congress. Everyone, particularly SUV owners with children, needs to understand the issues raised by Gregg Easterbrook in this fine review of "High and Mighty: SUVs -- The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way" by Keith Bradsher.

One key point for those to busy to read the whole thing. Your chances of dying in an SUV are higher than they would be in nearly any mid-sized car. Period. Anybody that tells you an SUV is safer is lying to you.
posted by Dave on 10:36 PM | 0 comments link

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