The PCTC Blog

Jane Hamsher -- Are You NUTS???

This is, without a doubt, the stupidest fucking post I have ever read on a left wing blog. I left it intact, and added my comments, which are in bright red.  If Hamsher objects, she knows how to contact me.

Obama Simply Doesn't "Cave," The Left Does. Learn Politics, Please.

One of the problems people on the extreme ends of the political spectrum have is an innate inability to think about more than one thing at a time, or to relate several concepts together.  I expect it from the far right; these are largely people with little real education who entertain a fantasy by which Rupert Murdoch cuts them a huge check someday for being his willing stooges. But this sort of cognitive dissonance is increasingly coming from the far left, and from people who should know better. And it has gotten ridiculous. The far left blogosphere is looking just as looney as Andrew Breitbart's "Big Government" bullshit. 

Here’s an example from the last couple of weeks. The debt ceiling situation has brought out the loon factor on the far left more than anything I can ever remember. Given the choice between a few cuts in Social Security and default, if you choose default, you're ignorant, and are disqualified from speaking politics on anything. Default would do more damage to Aunt Mabel's and your Social Security than any cuts the GOP could think of. But that's neither here nor there, for the purpose of this article. 

The Sky is NOT Falling, But We Must Stop Burning Oil...

The problem with the climate change debate (and it is not a debate about “global warming”) is that the loudmouths on both sides are almost completely full of crap.

On one side, we have a group running around screaming “The sky is falling!” and declaring the entire planet is inperil, and that our very existence depends on the immediate cessation of all fossil fuel use, because failure to do so will result in total annihilation of the entire human race, as well as almost all other species of animals and birds.

I don’t have to tell you, apocalyptic proclamations from humans always cause me to chuckle, whether they come from an evangelical Christian, a psychic who believes we have two years to go, or a science hobbyist who's convinced himself the world is about to explode and the only way to solve the problem is to ditch all the cars and trucks and walk. Those on the left who think they can only motivate folks with gloom-and-doom proclamations really need a clue.