Everything worthy of your time - Mark Morford
Wait, is the brutal budget impasse/government shutdown thing already over, and I didn’t even get a chance to join in the collective mockery of the one-person clown car that is Ted Cruz?
Nor did I get to point up the gargantuan absurdity of Texas, and its ever-impressive dependence on ignorance and isolationism, on being home to the largest misled, undereducated right-wing Tea Party underclass in America, to a degree that they would shut down the entire world just to try and prove it’s still flat?
Did I miss my chance to then turn around an celebrate the general awesomeness that is someone like, say, Wendy Davis, and her who-cares-if-it’s-probably-doomed gubernatorial campaign, which I would then perhaps follow with a nice digression on the wild and also wondrous ironies of life, and places like Texas, how you don’t always know what you think you know, and isn’t that just the greatest thing ever?
I might have missed writing about that one. What about the NSA? Snowden? Ongoing and appalling revelations of high-level spying on us, by us, on our enemies and allies too, and also, most likely, on your mother and your Facebook and your personal cellphone calls to Chancellor Merkel, because it now turns out the U.S. government, far from the greatest fire-breathing, flag-waving, freewheelin’ first-world democracy that’s ever been, has now fully revealed itself to be, in the post-9/11 era, a panicky, shadowy, whiny little Dick Cheney fever dream, a colicky demon baby with an overused Amex Platinum, a devious thug with too much free time and too little backbone to be honest with itself – ergo its asinine willingness to spend billions of your tax dollars to build vast, menacing machineries of milquetoast paranoia that make China’s totalitarianism look like a finger puppet at a production of Wagner’s Ring cycle.
The rest: http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2013/10/29/everything-worthy-of-your-time/
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