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Nothing beats a good venn diagram.

A postcard magazine. Cool concept.

And we're letting them get away with this shit.

While his choices on the environment have been pretty good, he has catered to Wall Street at every turn, and Wall Street has responded by going back to business as usual as quickly as possible, clearly unintimidated by their friends Summers and Geithner. Our tax dollars have disappeared into the maw of fat bankers' salaries and rising equity while we, the taxpayers are still stuck with high principal, tight loans, high fees, and skittish lenders. Yup, Naomi Klein was right — a crisis is just another way for the financial class to soak the poor.

But only for guys, according to the article. Women are still not allowed to be overweight. THIS IS BULLSHIT.

"The tree of crazy is an ever-present aspect of America's flora. Only now, it's being watered by misguided he-said-she-said reporting and taking over the forest. Latest word is that the enlightened and mild provision in the draft legislation to help elderly people who want living wills — the one hysterics turned into the "death panel" canard — is losing favor, according to the Wall Street Journal, because of "complaints over the provision." Good thing our leaders weren't so cowardly in 1964, or we would never have passed a civil rights bill — because of complaints over the provisions in it that would enslave whites."