On the subject of Senator Obama and the Rev. Wright, I have nothing to say about Part 2 of that saga that Bill Moyers didn't say much, much better. Just a taste:
We are often exposed to the corroding acid of the politics of personal destruction, but I've never seen anything like this--this wrenching break between pastor and parishioner before our very eyes. Both men no doubt will carry the grief to their graves. All the rest of us should hang our heads in shame for letting it come to this in America, where the gluttony of the non-stop media grinder consumes us all and prevents an honest conversation on race. It is the price we are paying for failing to heed the great historian Jacob Burckhardt, who said "beware the terrible simplifiers."
But the entirety of what he said is worth reading, and can be found here, right at the top.
One of the things that's bugged me recently about the rise in gas prices is that the oil companies have stopped even bothering to explain what's going on. Into the breach steps Andrew Leonard at Salon. He writes a regular column called "How the World Works" that I would say is required reading if only I read it regularly. It's dense, and complex, and it helps if you have an economics degree, which I most certainly don't. But the man certainly seems to know what he's talking about, and he has written an excellent explication of why we're paying so damn much at the pump. You can find it here.
A person should always investigate the facts before complaining about how we're being gouged by the oil companies. Read Mr. Leonard's article, get a sense of the astonishing complexity of these prices--then go back to complaining about the gas companies because, you know, that's just fun.
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