Sometimes the deck seems so stacked against us that I just don't see a way out of this mess. I remain convinced that we've reached the limits of three critically important systems that rule our lives - the environmental system is teetering, the economic system is completely corrupted, leaving billions of people in abject poverty, and the political systems are woefully inadequate to deal with any of it. But, just when I think we are doomed, along comes someone like Judge Rakoff, although it remains to be seen if these objections are straws that break a camel's back, or if they are simply nuisance speed bumps on the road to serfdom.
This post also gives me the opportunity to share a video of Matt Taibbi, who explains the ruling to Keith Olbermann's viewers. Matt is an interesting guy - he's a terrific writer doing pretty good investigative journalism for Rolling Stone magazine. His profanity-laced pieces push him to the peripheral of accepted journalism, however, and as much as I dig that about him (see my post about Winnebago Man!) I think he'd be doing the cause a service to limit his vocabulary to the parlance of the day.
