Crimes Against the State

It has ever been a wonder to me that Americans seem so ready to allow their State and Federal governments to get away with as much crime and skullduggery as they do. I tend to think it’s because none of us want to believe that our elected officials could really be so corrupted, or corruptible. We want them to be upstanding icons of moral and ethical purity, and we want that so badly we’re willing to ignore case after case proving it just ain’t so.

Well, Molly Ivins is on again at Alternet.org about this very thing today. She’s got the list (a partial one, anyway) and has definitely got the number of the rapscallions who are so deftly raping the American treasury, wild lands, air, water, and trust.

And, just because the The Downing Street Minutes/Memo needs to stay in the public consciousness, see Molly’s earlier commentary as she weighs in on some of the most dismaying evidence of smears and lies since Watergate.

On another note, new articles to this blog are likely to be a bit fewer and farther between for the next week or so as I turn a bit more of my focus toward the duties I share as a member of a community commited to evolutionary consciousness. Michael will probably be weighing in from time to time (likely to tell me how silly I am for participating in partisan politics and the journalism that goes along with), and with fare that should keep this blog varied and interesting for the remainder of the summer.

Oh yes, summer… it finally arrived here. At least briefly. I’ve been doing my best to catch up on that best of all vitamin D supplements, and I hope that the rest of you are enjoying pleasant summer weather, wherever you are.

Quote of the Day: Some day after we have mastered the winds, the waves and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of love; and then for a second time in the history of the world, humans will have discovered fire. –Teilhard de Chardin
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