Thursday, October 2, 2008

Political Discourse



American political discourse is so fucked up and distorted these days that even the Sports Guy, Bill Simmons writing in ESPN the magazine felt compelled to call us out.

"Of all the things currently wrong with this country—a trillion-dollar war, a flagging real estate market, a crippled stock market, high fuel prices, Lynne Spears, the Jonas Brothers—the fact that nearly everyone with a platform is terrified to say anything might be the most depressing subplot of all. Whatever happened to freedom of speech? Hell, whatever happened to speech?"

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