VIA Why Americans Don’t Care — Big Think.

Is the barbarous murder of the leader of such a vile regime wrong? Murder is wrong, but there is so little outcry for the masses murdered by murdering tyrants worldwide that I barely have the energy to care about a murdered murderer who danced with many stars. It sickened me, but I’ll not judge. Libyans will deal with this barbaric act of retribution on their terms. I wish them the best.

Brutal conquistadors and despot dictators everywhere beware.

Funny isn’t it, how freedom rings.

Professor Warren, in her capacity as a specialist in bankruptcy law, uses actual facts & statistics to back up her Cassandra predictions. Despite the Burkean vapors of Brooks & Doubthat, she pins the decline of the American middle class not to our moral decay and piggish consumerist lusts, but to the “rational” decisions of powerful industries (and the governments that served those industries) to shove an ever-increasing percentage of public-utility social costs like health care and education onto individuals and families.

If you haven’t got the time or strength to watch the whole lecture, I recommend listening, starting at about 47:30, to what she has to say about bankruptcies in America, even before the Great ‘maybe if we insist it’s only a recession it won’t hurt so much’ Collapse of 2008. Why do I suspect that 85% of middle-class bankrupts are no longer able/willing to hide the “stigma” from even their closest friends and family members?

Airports are good for something.

Peace