Finally caught the premier episode of Morgan Spurlock's 30 days (FX is running a marathon tonight) during which he and his fiancee live for 30 days in Columbus, OH on minimum wage. At the very end the fiancee says something along the lines of, I love America, but we can do so much better than this. We can treat our citizens better than this. I know it's a quaint little fantasy, but I wish every person who ever claimed that people on welfare are lazy and just need to find a job would be forced to watch this daily. Because I don't know about them, but I know I don't have the strength or energy to live the sort of desperate life that minimum wage makes. Spurlock and his fiancee make me want to give away most of my stuff. Maybe through the moving process I can start working on that.

Along similar lines, Shelby has posted a great rant:

Maybe we do look like madmen on the left with all our screaming and cursing. But we scream and curse because we see the country we love being driven into the ground; we see our privacy and liberty constrained; we see our environment being desecrated; we see webs of lies go unpunished; we see a war that has made us less safe at home; we see all kinds of un-Christian social injustice even though you call us godless for not taking your version of religion down our throats; and when none of you wingnuts give a rat's ass about it it makes us go a little boggo!

And speaking of Shelby, if you're in or near the Atlanta area, spare him the heart attack and buy a ticket to the Young Democrats Summerfest from 4-7 on Saturday July 23 in the Highlands, wontcha? You'll be glad you did.