"Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck..." — Matt Taibbi

The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers.

It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.

In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will 'take our country back' from everyone they disapprove of. But what they don't realize is, there's a catch: This is America, and we have an entrenched oligarchical system in place that insulates us all from any meaningful political change.

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.