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America loves gun porn

It happened one degree at a time, but like the frog in that famous experiment, we are boiling in a pot of gun porn.

Take one step back, pretend you're an alien and watch prime time television or almost any blockbuster movie. Unless it's a comedy, it's all shooting all the time. How can that not desensitize us to the horrendous, violent toll real-life bullets take on our country and the world?

And video games? They're training the drone pilots of the future. But even with a lifetime of shootem-ups under their belt, some of the cubical warriors flying missions from desks in California suffer from PTSD when they go home for dinner. Reaper by day, soccer Dad by night, while the rest of us shop.

Why is that OK?

Grow Up and Don't Suck So Much

Never in my most extreme opposition to the Bush presidency did I ever advocate a military coup (as Newsmax columnist John Perry did today) or assassination (as a Facebook poll did this week).

Never did I carry a sign that was a personal attack on the president (my protest signage was furious and relentless about many presidential policies).

I didn't waste my time worrying about whether Bush was addressing schoolchildren (presidents do that from time to time) or what songs they were singing about him.

I watched as the Air National Guard scandal was sidelined by a technicality (even though I doubt anyone questions the truth of the matter).

I rose disappointed on election day and went forward, understanding that that's how our system works (although, especially in 2000, I had grave suspicions that the system didn't work) and that I would just have to work hard for what I believed and wait it out.

I'm sure there are moral, sane, thoughtful republicans out there but they are certainly keeping a low profile.

Obama says "This isn't just any car company, this is GM"

Right.

"Just Any Car Company" didn't conspire with Firestone and Phillips Petroleum to dismantle our excellent mass transit system in the 30's.
"Just Any Car Company" didn't design and build a plug-in electric car in the 90's only to reclaim and destroy nearly every one and jump head first into Hummer production.

If we own 60% of the company we should start telling them how it's going to be.