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Pissing on Andre's Parade

I feel like 2 or 3 people are going to wonder if I still think that the Blazers should trade Andre Miller after he scored 52 last night, in the same way that they wonder if I've seen the pictures of Greg Oden's huge schlong. (I haven't seen the pictures yet, but I know that I probably will at some point.) And yes, I still think that they should trade Miller. In scoring 52 points, he played like exactly what he should be--a veteran who can do a lot to help a crappy offense win against a confused opponent. Now that Miller has proved that he still belongs on the court, rather than the bench or the in the broadcast booth, maybe the Blazers can get something for him. There should not be shots left for Miller when Roy and Outlaw come back, and the Blazers should not plan around a team that's missing them.

Fuck You Republicans, Media: Part 967

I don't know how the health care debate reached this point without it being pretty widely known that the health insurance industry has an antitrust exemption, and that this is a large reason for our broken health care system. OK, I do know how this happened. It's an issue that includes not only the word "insurance," but also the word "antitrust." After hearing both of these words together, most journalists' eyes glaze over, because they know that these words bore people, and because they know that these words signal a real, substantive political issue that involves no baby killing or photos of middle aged women with short hair kissing each other and it might require some work to simplify it and explain it to people. (It's not like it's their job to do that, or anything.)

Republicans, Ben Nelson, and Lieberman crying socialism at the prospect of allowing capitalist market competition in the insurance industry is the absolute height of cynicism. Congress is totally fucked with industry lobbyists. The "serious news" media is totally fucked with a celebrity-stalking ratings frenzy and self-fulfilling assumptions about this country's illiteracy and retardation. This country is basically fucked.

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Corporate Citizenship

Good op-ed:

The text of the Constitution nowhere suggests that corporations, having no commitment to the public good and no moral accountability, should be treated as if they were citizens having political rights equivalent to those of citizens. It should be deeply troubling to all citizens that Supreme Court justices disclaiming "judicial activism" would seriously consider extending constitutional political rights to abstract entities.

The Finale

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