1.0 link 64306 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/the-shock-doctrine_b_64306.html You might have read the piece in Salon the other day where John Dean laments the passing of the Republican Party as a positive, or, even, a non-damaging force in American life. The party he has known for forty years, and the party he says that his friends now know, is a hateful, entirely corrupt, and self-interested body composed of those who take revenge and those who fear having revenge taken upon them. Every current candidate for the presidency is "authoritarian" in an extreme and unAmerican...

]]> 2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00