low how the mighty have fallen...

`Let's Make a Deal' returning; Wayne Brady to host - Yahoo! News:

The game show "Let's Make a Deal" is coming back to daytime television.

CBS says that an updated version of the show will debut Oct. 5, with Wayne Brady as host. The network says that the premise of audience members trying to win cash and prizes by making "wacky deals" will be intact.

some people just shouldn't open their damn mouths...

NJ Rep. Rush Holt: They Opposed Medicare Too:

I recently talked with a Central New Jersey constituent about health care reform and my belief that we need an optional publicly administered health insurance plan. He objected, voicing concern that government should stay out of the health care business. Government-run health care would be inefficient. It would be costly. It would put the government between him and his doctor. It would mean socialized medicine.

How did he pay for his health care, I asked.

"Medicare" he responded.

I know there's "free speech" and all, but really, can somehow we stop people from making arguments that have been thoroughly refuted by actual evidence and experience?

There are valid and reasonable criticisms and alternatives against pretty much every liberal policy, and for some screwed up reason, no conservative either in congress, on the RNC, or in the punditacracy (nevermind the churches) is capable of making them. It's making the level of "debate" in this country an utter fucking joke and I'm getting sick of it.

It is one thing to continually propose the fallacy of slippery slope arguments (which they do on pretty much every civil rights and gay rights issue out there), but the constant barrage of "this proposal is already over the cliff" bullshit from the Right on every single economic and regulatory issue out there is just too damn much.

hear hear!

The Maturation of Charter Schools and Their Teachers : Mike the Mad Biologist:

For too long, we have been working under an old model, where over-qualified, well educated women had few options--teaching had a very talented and cheap work force. We need to realize that teaching is a skilled profession and should be compensated as such, regardless of the school administrative structure.