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...pardons for Democratic fat cats and the environmental policy clout of Big Business. But like a virus, political money has a way of mutating so it spreads in any environment. Be careful what you wish for. The cure may be worse than the disease. "This is a stunningly stupid thing to do, my colleagues," Kentucky's Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor, "and don't think there's anyone out there to save us from this...
Unfortunately, McCain’s “campaign finance reform” legislation, a delicious mixture of the merely unconstitutional and the grotesquely stupid, creates more problems than it solves. In our never-ending quest for easy answers, it looks as though it will pass, though in modified form. Rather than focus on its obvious drawbacks—in particular, the way it strangles political speech—consider the legislation on its own terms, as a cure for what ails our democracy. Instead of returning government to the people, McCain-Feingold will reduce the accountability of our elected...
...There Emerson hits precisely upon an essential imbecility of our own time. Rabid partisanship, an overboil of conviction, damages sight, impairs understanding, and may even ruin the joy of life. You see the world with one eye, peering straight ahead through one stupid, dogmatic lens, and walk through the day, as if it were a tunnel, in a state of smug, inflamed, combative rage...
...These days, kids at some hyper-observant schools aren't allowed to bring anything to school that's been within five feet of a peanut because everyone is so paranoid about peanut allergies. And those of us stupid enough to board an airplane in anything resembling a hungry state are denied the solid food value of dry roasted peanuts in favor of the wimpy carbohydrates in pretzels...
...news business, I should tell her finally, involves knowing and understanding all that goes on in the world--the gentle and the intelligent as well as the stupid and the murderous. And while I would not wish this work on her unless she wishes it for herself, still I should say that if one acknowledges the full breadth of the news, then the pursuit of it makes for a useful life...