Pith of the Moment

On the warfare in the Middle East, blogger Meteor Blades in the top rated diary at dkos:
I'm not saying we should erase history from memory altogether. What I'm saying, what I think I know, is that we can't throw up our hands, say "a pox on both your houses," and descend into apathy. Our only choice is looking futureward to what a peaceful, secure, prosperous Palestine and Israel would look like in 50 years, and doing what little part we can to make that happen. We can't say that's their problem, not ours.

How do I know this is the only choice? Because we already have clearly seen what 50 years of war looks like. And while I am no believer in biblical prophesy, I do believe in the possibility of Armageddon.

Amy Goodman in the Nation on the major media's coverage of the Iraq invasion and subsequent coverage of the Bushleague: If this were state media, how would it be any different?

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in an interview:"our electoral system is broken in three large respects: The first is our campaign finance system, which is a system of legalized bribery, and which has allowed corporations and the very rich to control the results of our electoral process. Number two is the failure of the American press and that is also a function and result of corporate control, as I showed in my book. Number three is the election system itself, which is broken. We've privatized it and allowed four large corporations to count our votes on machines that don't work...

This is the most important issue in American Democracy and the press isn't covering it...
you have a Republican party that is trying to suppress votes and trying to defraud the public. And you have a Democratic party that is like the deer in headlights. And the Democrats are never going to win another election if they don't fix this issue because they are starting out every election with a 3 million vote deficit, and those are mainly the black voters in this country who no longer have their votes counted."