Akkam’s Razor

• The Real Great Depression - ChronicleReview.com - In fact, the current economic woes look a lot like what my 96-year-old grandmother still calls "the real Great Depression." She pinched pennies in the 1930s, but she says that times were not nearly so bad as the depression her grandparents went through. That crash came in 1873 and lasted more than four years. It looks much more like our current crisis.
• All Spin Zone » McCain-Palin: The Audacity Of Audacity - That brings me back to John McCain and Forrest Gump. You see, the trajectory of the life of Forrest Gump was best exemplified by the flight of a feather in the wind…whereby the unintended acted upon the soul of an innocent. On the other hand, Sarah Palin is an offshoot of John McCain’s path…a path that is akin to the clever carpenter cutting corners to build a house of cards…whereby his suspect soul is little more than a hypocritical hologram that puts Palin forth as the purposeful act of a sullied snake-oil salesman. In the progression of the pathology I’m describing, Sarah Palin is merely a distraction offered by the disease in order to further its spread and prevent its detection and destruction. The Rich Lowry’s of the world are its toxic foot soldiers and the voting public is its intended victim.
• The sentences of Sarah Palin, diagrammed. - By Kitty Burns Florey - Slate Magazine - Yet surely, more than most of us, politicians need to be able to think on their feet, to have a brain that works quickly and rationally under pressure. Do we really want to be led by someone who, when asked a straightforward question, flails around like an undergraduate who stayed up all night boozing instead of studying for the exam?
• Sarah Palin’s 18 lies tonight -

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