Tozai Todd

Almost 10 minutes long, but you've got to watch from 7:50 on. "If the job goes well, they'll carve your head into the side of a @#$@#$@ mountain." It's not right to give the "elitist" argument (if you want to call it that) any leg to stand on; to make it is just to have a knee-jerk reaction to a politically charged buzzword. Give it and Obama's remarks just a smidge of thought and you'll realize A) he's absolutely in the right to make such a statement and B) Stewart's dead on in this clip.

Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, author, and professor injects some reality and sanity into this bullshit brouhaha over Obama’s “bitter” remark:

We’re heading into the worst economic crisis in a half century or more. Many of the Americans who have been getting nowhere for decades are in even deeper trouble. Large numbers of people in Pennsylvania and across the nation are losing their homes and losing their jobs, and the situation is likely to grow worse. Consumers are at the end of their ropes, fuel and food costs are skyrocketing, they can’t go deeper into debt, they can’t pay their bills. They aren’t buying, which means every business from the auto industry to housing to even giant GE is hurting. Which means they’ll begin laying off more people, and as they do, we will experience an even more dangerous downward spiral.

Bitter? You ain’t seen nothing yet.

I had no idea he had a blog. Fantastic. His commentaries on Marketplace are well worth the time, too.

Having solved world hunger and defeated cancer through sheer willpower, I finally had the time to recently update my Twitter icon to this:

Should anyone want to do something similar, here is a Photoshop PSD and a transparent PNG you can use to overlay with your own image. They’re both sized for square images.

• Photoshop PSD Obama ‘08 overlay
• Transparent PNG Obama ‘08 overlay