This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it – who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can’t, because, well, they’re scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it.

I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?

For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship.

The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.