Dylan‘s new WKM piece is–as Dara said–excellent. But because I’m a blogger, and quibbling is what I know, I’m going to quibble with a tangential point he raises in the last paragraph. He says: Furthermore, Obama’s campaign proposal to grant a $4,000 tuition tax credit to students who engage in service is borderline disturbing. The [...]

Regarding one of my earlier posts, commenter TalkingStick writes: Neither side has a coherent ideology nor particular skill in organizing enduring cohesive groups. That’a the problem. We have become a culture of bowling alone. The first group that comes up with a way to positively engage community will have a winner. This, conveniently, is related [...]

Yesterday Steve Benen and Josh Marshall drew attention to the story of a far-right militiaman who’s opposed to “socialism” and “government handouts” in the abstract, but is perfectly happily to live off government disability checks–money which, to be fair, and as Benen points out, he is absolutely entitled to. But this goes back to something [...]