No link, but I'm curious about what you all think. Apparently there are bills in the Senate, pushed by Republicans and not really oppossed so strongly by Democrats, to condemn MoveOn for the "Betrayus" ad. Because it "hurt the troops" or some nonsense. The excuses the Democrats are coming up with for why they can't stop it are pretty lame, and they may even offer their own version as a "compromise."

If it passes, it's another step towards creating the environment in which just being progressive is enough to get you on government-backed blacklists. Jobs, loans, various civil rights...these things can go away for some of us, when there are legal frameworks in place that separate us from "decent Americans." Read more…

Seriously. This is an outstanding example of why the WaPo is worthy of lining your birdcage and wrapping your fish. Get ready for this: Anti War crowd guilty of 'Hindsight Bias.'

Antiwar liberals last week got to savor the four most satisfying words in the English language: "I told you so."

This was after a declassified National Intelligence Estimate asserted that the war in Iraq was creating more terrorists than it was eliminating. For millions of people who opposed President Bush's mission in Iraq from the start, this was proof positive that they had been right all along. Yes, they told themselves, we saw this disaster coming.

An intelligence estimate that said the Iraq war was creating more terrorists than it was eliminating was proof to some doubters that they knew all along the war would be a disaster. But psychologists say they are guilty of hindsight bias.

Only . . . that isn't quite true.

One of the most systematic errors in human perception is what psychologists call hindsight bias -- the feeling, after an event happens, that we knew all along it was going to happen. Read more…