A New New Deal

Back in October in a post titled The Rape Of The American Taxpayer, when the government’s bailout of Wall Street was already in high gear, I wrote: Having been brutally raped by a Wall Street gang, aided and abetted by Bush and his congressional cronies, Americans are now being required to buy the rape kit, as well as bear and …

Animating Ayn Rand’s Rotting Corpse

Young Alan Greenspan posing for Atlas Shrugged in Ayn Rand’s apartment Digby explores the Bizzaroworld economic logic and the psychology of greed that inflicts the wingnut universe, rooted as it is in Ayn Rand‘s classic 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged here and here. Ronald Reagan,  a key enabler of the Bush Depression, implicitly adopted Rand’s disdain for government’s role in fostering …