Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Stiglitz: We have a government ‘Of the 1%, by the 1%, and for the 1%’ – “Given the power of the top 1 percent, this is the way you would expect the system to work.” Ugh.
- Republicans continue assault on consumer protection – I’ve been trying to figure out when it was that a majority in a single house of Congress suddenly gave a party (and their special interests) control over the government.
- Estimated 9 million Americans identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, study finds | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times – But … but … THEY’RE SCARY AND THEY’RE OUT TO DESTROY AMERICA, A HALF-PERCENTAGE-POINT AT A TIME!
- Fox News to end Glenn Beck’s show – latimes.com – Couldn’t happen to a nicer lunatic.
- Government shutdown: Clean air, abortion divisions may cause shutdown – latimes.com – So it’s not really about the budget (in which case getting the numbers to meet up would be sufficient), but about getting some healthy dollops of conservative policy-making shoehorned through. And for that we may end up with a government shutdown? Nice abuse of the system, GOP.
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