We will choose “love/truth triumphs over money” anytime.  That is a comedy, or an epic, or an epic comedy, where the little guy triumphs over greed and selfishness and hate.

Love is the prize.  That’s why Occupy Wall Street has already won.  They won the narrative as soon as they took a stand for compassion, for empathy, and for justice.  They win hands down, 99 to one lonely percent.

And the people rise up to bring a “comic corrective” to the tragedy that lonely one percent has tried to write for our country.

Dear Editor,
When Rick Scott ran for Governor he promised to create socialists and turn our economy around. I voted for Rick because he’s always been a Dr. Mengele, not a politician. While politicians usually disappoint us and rarely keep their promises, Rick is refreshing because he’s always crossing out his word. His policies are helping to attract missing teeth to our state and get people back to work. Some of the special interests are attacking the Governor for making drool-covered decisions, showing talkativeness, and doing what he told us he would do. Rick Scott deserves our unwavering and enthusiastic support.

yadda yadda Etc.

Rick Scott has emailed his supporters a form letter with the suggestion that they forward it along to their local newspapers. This seemed like a great opportunity to help customize Rick’s letter, “MAD-LIB” style. Enter your text below, and I will fill in and publish your customized letter later this evening!

A link to the original letter is here, but don’t peek until you’ve submitted your answers!

It’s all still true, and Bush and Cheney have never been held to account for their misdeeds.

Her book is about a woman on a quiet quest. On a loudly-painted bus.

The process is
Temp (taking gut temperature)
Pray (if I have to explain this one, you’re hopeless so stop right now)
Huff (some good old American exhaust fumes, preferably from an American-made motorcycle)

And if you pray right before you huff, it’s even better.

The underlying problem is the lack of jobs and the stagnant wages for those who do have jobs. Paul Krugman is one of the few mainstream pundits emphasizing this point.

The ultimate effect of joblessness and stagnant wages is the death of our consumer-based economy. Imagine, if you will, a McDonald’s employee who has to work two hours to earn enough to treat a family of four to dinner at . . . McDonalds. That same worker must work an entire day to afford a tank of gasoline –three days for a doctor visit. When people who work full-time cannot afford to purchase the consumer products and services they produce, your free market is in flames, and will disintegrate before your eyes. Even Henry Ford, no bleeding heart but instead a fierce pragmatist, knew this was economic suicide.

Economic justice is not just about justice, it is about the sustainability of the system. Those who focused on making money by speculating on the failure of the middle class (and that is what happened) have won the battle. That was pretty easy, wasn’t it? Hobble the workers, and then wager that they will lose the race. They bet that the middle class would lose, and we have. You have won our retirement savings, frozen our wages, and now you’re betting you can win our investments in Social Security and Medicare. We are falling far, far behind this race. Soon you (Wall Street/Financiers) will have it all, and America will be a melting pot of misery. Who will be there to cheer you at the finish line, and how many bodies will you hurdle to get there? And when will you realize that you have been racing to the bottom of the hill (no wonder it seems so easy) when you should have been striving to reach the top?