Would Shock
(apologies to Joni Mitchell, artist and poet and angel)

I came upon a child of Ron
He was looking to make private a road
And I asked him, what’s with the tolls
And this he told me
I’m bowing down to Friedman’s charm
I’m going to touch the invisible hand
I’m going to make private the land
I’m going to try a southern strategy
We are bloodlust
We are beholden
And we’ve got to go bulldoze
All of the garden  Read more 

An Islamic saying:

“The first to reason by anaology was the Devil.”

By that measure, and the measure of historians, yesterday’s speech by President Bush regarding Iraq was beyond outrageous.  Read more 

Blame it on Paul Krugman—he started it! (explanation below)

FWIW, by Buffalo Springfield  Read more 

Last week, a songwriter here in Nashville asked our DFA group, "Where are OUR war protest songs? They're being written and recorded—but the radio still won't play them!"

Bush has found a way to dumbfound his self-appointed court jesters in the leftysphere: he makes his own irony.  Read more