Prometheus 6

I'm gonna miss him when his guest stint is up. Too bad he's behind the financial firewall.

[TS] Rendezvous With Oblivion 
By THOMAS FRANK

...What we have watched unfold for a few decades, I have argued, is a broad reversion to 19th-century political form, with free-market economics understood as the state of nature, plutocracy as the default social condition, and, enthroned as the nation’s necessary vice, an institutionalized corruption surpassing anything we have seen for 80 years. All that is missing is a return to the gold standard and a war to Christianize the Philippines.

There you are.

Now, fact is we've never wandered too far from that condition.