NY Times article; david brooks and gail collins going back and forth about beck's tea party rally in D.C.
its pretty light, but entertaining to read
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/what-the-tea-party-really-wants/?hp
A way to keep in touch and haggle! - Thats right! I wanna know what music you're into, what food your eating, what stories you're reading (web comics, news stories, new fiction, Pemberton times), what TV/movies struck you as awesome, ALL OF IT!! Just think of it like the Patriot Act, constantly checking up on our shared relatively inane existence, but with LOVE/HATE OF COURSE!!!
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I think my favorite part was:
Gail Collins: "Here’s my thought for the day. The Tea Party people say they’re angry about socialism, but maybe they’re really angry about capitalism. If there’s a sense of being looked down upon, it’s that sense of failure that’s built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers. Capitalism is also a system that lives off of change. When people say this isn’t the America they grew up in, they’re right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in."
And:
"Here in D.C., it’s press 1 for English, press 2 for Swedish, and if you press 2 the tax collectors sweep in, take half your income and force you to read those books about the girl with the dragon tattoo. (I liked the first one, but the second one is as slow and lifeless as a Nordic winter.)"
the second parag was one of my fav bits lolol!!
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