StupidLand
This week's Tom Tomorrow cartoon is yet another utter fail at parody.
Dan Rather is pretty steamed at how knowledge, reason and logic are all negatives in our current political climate.
When the time comes, and I hope it comes soon, to bury this era of moral rot and the defiling of our communal, social, and democratic norms, the perfect epitaph for the gravestone of this age of unreason should be Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley’s already infamous quote:“I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing… as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies.”Grassley’s vision of America, quite frankly, is one I do not recognize.
Read the whole thing here. In an environment where technical advances and their effects on society are accelerating hockey-stick style, this is suicidal. But the Rethuglican plan seems to be to kill off the lower classes. That's you and me, boys and girls; read the tax bill. So it makes a macabre kind of sense.