(Originally Posted Dec 11, 2014)

As of today, you still cannot legally be sold into slavery. (Except, of course, as a punishment for a crime. Which nobody's going to really do. They WILL pay you convict labor rates, a growing and vital part of our economy!)

As of today, you still will have a pension. (Admittedly, LESS than you did yesterday. But think of all those poor people who don't get any, and realize that you're better off!)

So I was mulling over Hillary's outrage at all the lies the Sanders campaign has spread about her. And that got me to reviewing what I know and believe about her. The conclusion that I came to was that if the Sanders campaign was spreading lies about her I wouldn't know about it.

During the insanity of the Bush/Cheney years, Paul Krugman was a voice of reason. He fought back against the deficit scolds and zombie liars and austerians in the wake of the 2008 crash, offering clear, understandable lessons in Keynesian economics, lessons that had been conveniently forgotten and had to be fought for all over again. He went on television and faced down establishment doofuses on a regular basis. For that, he deserves thanks.

APRIL 1, 2016

We need to stop blaming the victims and clean this mess up.
The Lies of Neoliberal Economics (or How America Became a Nation of Sharecroppers)
by MICHAEL HUDSON – CHRIS HEDGES

"Orange" and their rhymes - so many good options! Why there's ...uh ... well there could ... no ... about ...

Face it, sometimes nothing works in one particular direction. Whether it's rhymes or a new subject to opine about, sometimes you need a new direction. And you have some pride, so you don't want to regurgitate last weeks leftovers. (At least two weeks for that sort of thing.)

[Cross-posted from Daily Kos]

By now, most of you have seen this video:
[video:https://youtu.be/sO-sgjJ36eo]

First off, I wonder why Bill hasn’t told Hillary you never point at people. You use a closed fist with the thumb out. He pioneered the gesture.

Link: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/feel-the-math/

Paul Krugman is at his overbearing "best" in an article called "Feel the Math", in which he seems to channel our favorite overbearing, clueless website owner. See if this whole line of thinking sounds familiar to you...

Krugman begins with laying out Bernie's chances, from the DNC lens:

This is a bit of a sequel to my first essay. I'm just trying to probe the overall mood around here, whilst still trying to get into my stride. This was a bit of a pain in the ass to write since I couldn't seem to get it quite right.

Hacker accused of exposing Clinton’s private email. . . appears in U.S. court

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/hacker-who-expose...

Back on Sep 23, 2015, cbsnews.com reported that Hillary Clinton had deleted about half of her Secretary of State emails, because they were "personal" in nature.