In our modern political climate, many seem to feel that one day, one magical day (It’s coming soon! I can just feel it!), there will come a convenient time to take a stand for a principle.

This should be a full-on political war at this point and it’s infuriating that it isn’t..

This should be a full-on political war at this point and it’s infuriating that it isn’t..

The reason is that our country is corrupt and also ignorant.

This has seriously gone way too far, and the fact that you’re letting him is even worse.

I am never going to understand why grown adults spend this much time worrying about who’s comments are in the black or in the grey.

When you start following this logic, it really starts to fall apart, especially when juxtaposed with:

If that’s the just the way it works and whaddya gonna do, and even Obama with the support of the people can’t stop it, and he(we) have to capitulate to the Military Industrial Complex, then do you understand why some might say, “Burn it down.”?

No need to revisit. I understand your point of view.

Nailed it.

journalism—and by extension, the profession of journalist—has a pretty clearly defined set of behaviors, values, and acceptable actions that delineate what is and is not part of the profession/pursuit.

Jeff Bezos bought Whole Foods and immediately lowered the prices on salmon, a nutritious fish.

“Help me! I am a hostage, and I am being tortured! Woof.” 

You start to find out how closed the club really is when someone like Michelle Wolf comes in and sets it on fire.

If you want a military that murders people and then covers it up then keep cheering the bullshit treatment of Assange and Manning.

This post is entirely too thoughtful and nuanced.

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEOUS!

And on Israel, I think Benjamin Netanyahu is corrupt and I think the U.S. should suspend diplomatic relations or play hardball as President Obama did unless Netanyahu changes his mind on annexing squatters in the West Bank.

I tend to agree with you that we as a nation are far more beholden to Israel and Saudia Arabia then Russia, which I suspect is just a shiny object for the MSM to dangle for the American public so they don’t look at corporate profits over healthcare and working wages, war crimes, and so forth.

And I reject, on principle, the assertion that one must support Assange if they claim to support a free and open press; because I do not operate from nor share the assumption that Assange is a “journalist” or a “whistleblower,” I cannot see this as an attack on the press.