There's a little fight brewing between a couple of media lights -- Joe Klein of Time is angry that Ed Schultz of MSNBC held up a sign that said "get out now," during a segment the two did about Afghanistan.  Joe found the action, the sentiment and the policy idea to be trivializing.  The two have traded barbs ever since and you can read Joe's latest recap here.

(from Oct. 2009)  Wow; how ironic!

Some if us been discussing the limits of capitalism, and what models or changes to our economic system might be more sustainable and beneficial to more of us than the 5% or so it seems presently designed to serve.

  THREE GUYS LOOKING FOR SOME DIRECTION

Sometimes I reach an epiphany.

A great light shows in the universe of my mind and I exclaim:

Eureka!!!

Socrates came to an important conclusion that was counter productive as far as selling his place in the universe as a great professor:

Hey all,

I like to read what others are saying about events here. Other publications and sites from around the world. It gives one a better perspective or at least a different one. Here is something that has been put on the DW World site out of Germany. A review of some of the European Press.

The shooting of Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords has reignited a debate in the US over the dangers of extremist political rhetoric. The discussion is no less heated in the European press.

It involved the fact that first and second amendment solutions weren't working out so well so maybe we should invoke a third amendment solution (take it to another level) and start quartering soldiers in the homes of liberals. But some things are just so rotten that even humor can't help us to deal with them. The shooting of Rep. Giffords and the other victims in Arizona is one of those. It being Monday, the merchants of hate are back on the air, and their outrage is not directed at the shooter. No, it's directed at the Arizona sheriff who dared to speak the truth.

In the East or the West, it does not matter.

Whether it is the thought or the practice of voicing democracy. It does not matter........

Democracy is the Target.

OK, we all know that the NRA is crafting a response to this latest example of GUNS RUN AMOK in the USA.  We have dismissed the horrific murders in Mexico of untold thousands, because they are in Mexico, even though the guns (and more) were supplied by US.  Whew!  Dodged THAT bullet -  hahahahahahahaha!

But this Giffords thing -- we need a real strategy.  OK, this dude bought the gun legally.  Been there, done that.  VA Tech?  We skated, as usual.  But people are really pissed about this one.  Who has suggestions?  Yes?

Here is an extremely important piece of new commentary from Simon Johnson.

http://baselinescenario.com/2011/01/09/the-bill-daley-problem/

To try to repeat or somehow add to what Articleman posted last night or what Sheriff Dupnik, a hero way before yesterday, but his heroism renewed last night, told the nation, is an absurdity.  They said it all.  Yet, all of us with a keyboard need to vent, and to say what we all know to be so.

The touchy subject of the triumphant return of Moqtada al-Sadr, a radical anti-American Mullah, to Iraq from his four year sojourn in Iran was handled differently in headlines:

The New York Times had a positive spin: Iraqi Cleric Embraces State in Comeback Speech