"These days, however, tax-cutters are hardly even trying to make the trickle-down case."

Top read: on the ground in Mogadishu, and why there is no peace for Somalia.

Another must-read from Matt Taibbi: "Tea & Crackers: how corporate interests and Republican insiders built the Tea Party monster." (Courtesy blackflame2180.)

Paul Krugman on the growing anger of the rich. As noted, it'd be funny if they didn't wield, you know, all the political power. (Courtesy alumiere, I think.)

Wow. Why Huxley was more right than Orwell. (I may have posted that before, but yeah.)