right or left, we're hanging by our underwear

whether we want to believe we can 'return' to prosperity by reversing social progress & turning our backs on each other- or that we can move forward towards it by expecting our government to bootstrap a whole new healthcare, banking, infrastructure, education, foreign policy or energy paradigm with us: no matter what we want to believe, we're all in effect receiving a giant atomic wedgie from the powers that be.

Myths We Try So Hard to Believe

david sirota riffs on the recent gulf oilpocalypse-

"We know that before the disaster, President Barack Obama recklessly pushed to expand offshore drilling. We also know that his Interior Department gave British Petroleum’s rig a “categorical exclusion” from environmental scrutiny and, according to The New York Times, “gave permission to BP and dozens of other oil companies to drill in the Gulf without first getting required [environmental] permits.” Worse, we know that after the spill, the same Interior Department kept issuing “categorical exclusions” for new gulf oil operations, and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar still refuses “to rule out continued use of categorical exclusions,” as The Denver Post reported (heckuva job, Kenny!).

Undoubtedly, had this been the behavior of a Republican administration, “The Left’s” big environmental organizations would be scheduling D.C. protests and calling for firings, if not criminal charges. Yet, somehow, there are no protests. Somehow, there have been almost no calls for the resignation of Salazar, who oversaw this disaster and who, before that, took $323,000 in campaign contributions from energy interests and backed more offshore drilling as a U.S. senator. Somehow, facing environmental apocalypse, there has been mostly silence from “The Left.”"