In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.

America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

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?

There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective soothing versions of unreality

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