Except, my dear Sky, vast swaths of private citizens deserve to be branded and ridiculed. Of course, which swath may depend on whose ox is gored....


A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich