wreckers

This is not only extremely funny: it's a very accurate portrayal of how our GOP representatives -- and alas far too many Dems as well -- are, through their infantile self-indulgence, wilfully destroying the fabric of this nation for the purposes of self-serving political gamery, without sparing a single moment's thought for the human lives that are being ruined as a direct consequence of their kindergarten antics.

These are the wreckers of the US, far more than Al-Quaida could ever hope to be.

They should learn to get a grip on themselves, like grown-ups do.



(By the way, cartoonist Ruben Bolling has a blog here you might want to check out.)

Summer of Love 61 Revisited #12 & 35

NPR is posting all weekend great scads of stuff recorded at this year's Newport Folk Festival for free download here.

I'm not sure how long these downloads will be available, so I'd not tarry. More is being added even as I type: Gillian Welch and Billy Bragg and The Low Anthem already, Decemberists later this evening, Pete Seeger tomorrow . . . These are just some of the people I immediately recognize; perhaps more exciting are the discoveries I'm going to be making.

Makes you wonder, dunnit, why all the good stuff ends up on budget-strapped NPR rather than on richer-than-the-wildest-dreams-of-Croesus stations like, say, those of the Clear Channel network.