Here is a YouTube video that Organizing for America has put out to rally supporters for the midterms.

One message here seems to be “you older white guys with jobs, mortgages, and families, we’ve just given up trying to sell you on our policies. ” I mean look at this video. In 90 seconds of showing grinning hopeful faces not a single one of them is an older white male.
Obama supporters: you should be asking yourself what does your Dad know about the world and the president’s policies that you don’t. …

Treasury Secretary Romney Tells Citibank: Fail Already
(New York)  In a stunning change in the “too big to fail” policy of the previous administration who must not be named, U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Mitt Romney said today that CitiBank should get on with failing already, the American public has paid enough for their bad decision making. “Were they going to share with the taxpayer if their gambles won?  I doubt that” he said.
Romney said the multinational banking concern should get about the business of going bankrupt post-haste, the sooner …

“Glome was a web–I the swollen spider, squat at its center, gorged with men’s stolen lives.” C.S. Lewis.
Walter Stabosz caught this amazing video with a perfect storm of spider, firefly, lighting, and, yes, storm. When BoingBoing.com linked to it, the video got 40,000 views in one day. But what fascinates more than this compelling video is its reception by commenters.  It’s like a Rorschach test. And of course I saw an apt analogy to the looters in DC.

In Lewis’ Till We Have Faces tragic figure Oruel realizes that far from …