"you're a serial adulterer with an ugly wife!" "Oh yeah, well you're a rat-f**er and had to get mail order brides from Europe because no American would sleep with you, you small pr***ed b***d." Yeah, that's a substitute for a televised debate...

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