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

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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
  

Debushification
Saddam and Bush. Two discredited leaders with corresponding legacies of bad personnel and policy decisions. For Iraq, debaathification to purge Iraqi society of the predominantly Sunni government officials who brutalized the Shi'a. For the United States, debushification to purge American society of the predominantly Republican government officials who brutalized the US Constitution.

It's not enough to do the routine end of term housecleaning that will let Bush's successor appoint a new team of department managers. We need to begin planning for a root and branch staff upheaval that undoes the damage that eight years of incompetent, malevolent, and crony hiring has wrought. I will be creating a clearinghouse for anonymous tipsters to start the process of identifying the worst of the Bush hires. In the meantime, email me your selections for the "gotta-goes".

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