Gone Geese

• Robert Reich (AlterNet) on the "recovery:"

  Corporations aren’t expanding production or investing in research and development. Instead, they’re using their money to buy back their shares of stock.

• Tangentially related:  Driftglass quotes Politico and Rod Serling on race and politics.

  ...[T]his country will still be politically divided amount three groups.
  

  • Exhausted Liberals, for whom this is all brutally self-evident and has been since forever.
  • Conservatives, go to bed at to the reassuring, brain-killing hum of Fox News them over and over again that the real racists are those damn Liberals who keep talking about race.
  • And the Centrist/Independents...who hide in the No Labels political sock drawer and reflexively shriek "BothSides!BothSides!BothSides!" anytime anyone starts bringing up the sordid history of modern Conservatism.

  This berserk monster that the Right built and then set loose in order to win elections has been running amok in plain sight for my entire life.

  [Emphasis in original.]
  
• Wisconsin Poll Watcher Militia now claiming it was all a hoax because federal felony charges might be in store for them.  Voter intimidation is illegal.  Who knew?  [Via Xopher Halftongue at Making Light in comments.]
• Via Zandar Versus The Stupid, a Rolling Stone exposé of the Koch brothers.  Rolling Stone has featured some of the best political writing of the decade.  I just got out of the habit because I seldom read music writing.  *sigh*