Posted late because I filed to schedule it.\u00a0 Ooopsie.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, Robert Reich<\/a> announced two awards – a Joseph Welch award for Harvard, and a Neville Chamberlain award for all law firms capitulating to the regime. Joseph Welch, you may remember for saying “Have you no decency?” to Tail Gunner Joe McCarthy – the beginning of the end of McCarthyism. The Chamberlain awards speak for themselves. But the cool thing, the reason why I’m featuring this, is that shortly after the column came out he received a lovely thank you note<\/a> from Welch’s granddaughter. Sometimes humanity is hereditary, despite many counter-examples.<\/p>\n I really used to like Jon Stewart. I have been really disappointed in him since he returned to the airwaves (and I don’t even watch – it’s the quotes in my news sources which have me cringing.) Wonkette<\/a> explains this better than I could.<\/p>\n TomCat used to like to say, when Andy Boro<\/a>witz<\/a> came up with a particularly pointed satire, that he was reporting straight news (again.) But this time he really is doing that – it’s not satire. The closest it comes to satire is the title. Past that, it literally is straight news.<\/p>\n Belle has been covering the economy very thoroughly lately, from Tariffs and inflation\/deflation\/stagflation to chances of a recession or even a new Great Depression, and I think I get it. She’s probably overwhelmed with questions about money from a huge chunk of her audience. But it means she’s not covering the currently happening coup. So today I’m going to substitute this highly righteous rant by Lawrence O’Donnell on Harvard<\/a>. Yes, it’s long, about 20 minutes. I didn’t notice an excess word in any part of it. If you do, feel free to cut it short.<\/p>\n