Quote and Blogger of the Day: Matt Taibbi rips a new one for David Brooks

In his blog piece Let Them Eat Work, Matt Taibbi shreds David Brooks (NYT) for asserting in the latest Opinionator Blog (with Gail Collins) that, "for the first time in human history, rich people work longer hours than middle class or poor people. How do you construct a rich versus poor narrative when the rich are more industrious?"

Matt's piece is so good I had trouble picking what to pull out as my Quote of the Day". After several reads I decided to honor this sentence:

If [Brooks] keeps this up, he’s going to make his way into the Guinness Book for having extended his tongue at least a foot and a halfp farther up the ass of the Times’s Upper East Side readership than any previous pundit in journalistic history.

Heros of the Day: Zimbabwean Orphans

Nicholas Kristof's has been reporting from his lastest African travels in Zimbabwe, and offers a hard look at the impact of a corrupt and totalitarian ruler on the populace. Recommended reading: "Young Superheros in a Hut" and accompanying slideshow.

These kids are my heros of the day.

They come from two families. Both sets of parents died from AIDS and the kids banded together to raise themselves under the leadership of the eldest, who was 15 at the time the kids moved in together.

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A Day Late, 40 Acres and a Mule Short, in VA

Breaking news on washpost:

McDonnell issues thorough apology for leaving slavery out of proclamation

Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) apologized late Wednesday for failing to include slavery in his proclamation declaring April as Confederate History Month.

 Nothin' like a majority voting block of persons of color and progressives to make a politician fall prey to Delayed Involuntary Sensitivity Syndrome.

Must-See of the Day: War comes to reality video

I am sorry to do this to you but this must be seen by anyone living in any country that has any troops in Iraq. And everyone else in every country that might some day send some troops somewhere. Unless you have witnessed or fought or suffered through war first-hand, even if you *think* that you think War Is Wrong, watch this classified video.

This is what our taxes fund. This is what we are not out in the streets protesting. This is our shame. This RIPS MY HEART.

(Props to Julian Assange and any/all others involved in creating Wikileaks ... a whole new breed of citizen journalism that our society so desperately needed.)