Dartmouth aims to control debate crowd

LOL.

You can’t make this up. Instead of having organizers – and candidates – try to confront the ugly crowds that go to GOP debates, they are doing what they can to cherry-pick, limit the size and makeup of said crowd.

You know, like setting up a “free speech zone” two blocks away from anywhere Bush the Lesser was standing so he wouldn’t have to hear about how he was screwing over and killing Americans for no good reason.

So, instead of actually being adult and asking their supporters to be adults as well, the GOP has once again chickened out and taken the non-democratic, censorship route.

There’s a lesson there. A lot of them actually.

After Ruling, Hispanics Flee an Alabama Town – NYTimes.com

Here’s the thing. You start fulfilling the sterotypes built by our enemies: you discriminate based on the color of people’s skin, you lock folks up and through away the key, you because what you spend a lot of hot wind saying you aren’t.

Welcome to Alabama, which thinks it is just fine to hunt down anyone brown and make everyone flee the state, legal status or not.

Hell, *I* sure the hell don’t want to go there and face arrest because I’m a darker shade than lily white.

And while they swear this isn’t about race and is a smart strategy, this law against Mexican first collared a Yemeni national in this nation legally. Nice job!

But hey, no problem, right? Oh, except for that whole “you have to prove you are a citizen just so you can get clean water” business. Hell, even the racist Minutemen give folks water!

I seriously hope folks of any type of tinted skin stay the hell out of that state. And if anyone could point out ways to not let any of our cash stray towards Alabama, I’d love to hear about it.

Wall St. protests: How reform happens – CBS News

You know, the danger with dealing with CBS is their history of appealing to rural, conservative viewers. That said, Sunday Morning has always been more quietly subversive than most of the rest of the network. Here, they shine a light on the Occupy Wall Street folks than is more honest and insightful than anything you’d see on the rest of the media.

Kudos.

Other info from Paul Krugman and Nic Kristof on the movement no one seems to be in charge of yet.

Though, I love that Van Jones – removed from government to appease the right wing – is trying to corral the disparate voices.

Personally, I think the whole thing is kind of silly. But I certainly wish them well. I mean, no one is going to prison over this. No one is currently losing a dime on this. I hope calls for investigations comes. I hope boycotts of those who squandered our tax dollars come up. I hope that billboards of the guys who complained about having to live on “only” half a million a year when we bailed out their failed companies are put up around the country.

None of this might happen. But why the hell not?