Please go to "Some Assembly Required"

In my never ending quest for original material, I will once again direct you to a blog assembled by someone else. It consists of other people's opinions. In other words, my creativity consists of third hand (at the very least) material.

It's just that other folks usually manage to articulate what I'm thinking at least as well as I do -- with better footnotes.

Anyway --- please go to "Some Assembly Required" -- please follow link to original.

Here's a little sample:


Collapse is a common failing of civilizations.

Deja vu All Over Again: The FBI is out raiding the homes of anti-war activists, serving search warrants in hopes of finding enough evidence to arrest them as terrorists and to let the public know that dissent has consequences.

Facts Not In Evidence: It's beginning to look like the GOP may need to restate their disdain for health care reform; only 20% oppose it and 2 out of 3 think it should have done more, to include some form of single payer/universal coverage. Oops. This may be one reason why polls show the Democrats are not at all out of the race.

Snapshot: Over 52% of all houses sold in August went for under $200,000, while new house prices fell to their lowest level in 7 years.

Let's Make a Deal: Rumor has it that California has arrived at a budget deal with the following reductions in state spending: Cut Medicaid by $1.6 billion. End the Healthy Families ($600 mil) program, End the Cal Works employment program for the poor (nearly $2 bil). End in-home social health services for the elderly ($1.5 bil) Cut state payroll by 10% by reducing staff and paying them less ($1 bil). Cut school funding by a billion. California is the nation's trend setter.