Furious

Hereforth a rant. I'm not supposed to rant because I am generally a level-headed professor-sort with somewhat of a reputation to maintain as level-headed prof. But this is enough from this administration's cronyism, culture of death and disaster, fluffy rhetoric while it screws everyone but its wealthy friends. Enough is enough. These people need to be rejected from office. They are incompetent failures who have burdened the country with long-term consequences of cleaning up their messes, trying to rebuild a respectable international standing, keeping people alive, and a return to honesty and democracy.

Out, damn bloody spot. I'm willing to take suggestions as long as they're not from MoveOn's idiotic reactionary leftism or conspiracy theories that go nowhere. I like the American Progress Center, but they're also too reactionary and inner loop. I'm also not fond of Daily Kos and Eschaton who spend most of their time pointing out the hypocrisies of their political opponents -- that does nothing but provide a forum for ranting, a safe enough forum for their opposition (free speech and all that over-used tripe).

The time is ripe for great strategic and political and ethical minds - left and right - to take the country back from the corrupt and fundamentally bad people who run the country. And this can be done in a very pragmatic way that even the whore-ish ADD media could pay attention to. I'm game for doing my part to start up some fresh ideas in this direction, ones that are fair to everyone in this country and in the international community.

Let me know what you think. We've got some good minds out there with lots of experience inside and outside of goverment. We'll need some funding, but it should be funding that looks at the longer term regarding where we ought to be going, ideas that are sorely lacking from the public discourse. I have my own ideas on that, but we can develop them deliberatively and fairly and equitably, drawing on the best intellectual and moral resources of the country. Speak to me...

And read Richard Rorty's Achieving Our Country and Peter Singer's A Darwinian Left for starters. Forget Chomsky -- he just makes us mad, but doesn't give us anything else.