A funny thing happened on the way to our Change - everything stayed the same except our new president.  The same tired rhetoric from both sides of the aisle from the same tired partisan warriors in the same shrill and paranoid self grandeur one would expect from lifelong mental patients. 

The Right wants Tax Cuts and the Left wants Social Spending.  Anyone who seeks nuance in either stance is a "centrist" or a "traitor" or somehow an impediment to whichever side takes offense at their questions.  Sounds exactly like the "You're either with us or you're with the terrorists" nonsense we got out of Baby Bush. 

Sounds like the parade of neocon talking heads who said we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

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I think Kellogg's owe Michael Phelps an apology.  He also might have a case of wrongful dismissal if they already signed contracts and agreed to payment terms.  Kellogg's has been killing Americans for decades using food packed with high-fructose corn syrup, so they can't say Phelps isn't in keeping with their corporate identity.  They are part and parcel of many of our most pressing problems - from global warming to health care. 

In fact, I think the entire United States of America owes Phelps an apology.  And a bong hit.

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