Miscellaneous

Two quotations on the blogosphere today bear repeating:

?All we can do now is give cars away, or give US citizens free money to buy them ? which we are obviously already doing with ?Cash for Clunkers? ? which is additionally hilarious in the same nation that is deeply paranoid about the government giving anybody free health care. What a nation of morons we have become.? ?James Howard Kunstler, Clusterfuck Nation.

?People believe what they want to believe, crediting information that reinforces those beliefs and rejecting information that challenges those beliefs. Many of these beliefs are inextricably intertwined with people?s fears about the world and their place in it. Today?s intense anxieties about economic well-being leave people easily moved to share their fears, with demagogues standing by to exploit them.? ?John E. McIntyre, You Don?t Say.