The Gods Must Be Crazy

"We're in a period of neo-McCarthyism. Everybody is running for cover, it's everyman for himself and somebody turn out the light. How you can go from the Obama moment less than a year ago to a period now where a hardscrabble Taliban-in-the-cave, right-wing Republican movement is able to intimidate people to cut and run is beyond me. I have no friends, until this McCarthyist moment dies down. If you're walking down the street and see me, cross the street and keep walking. I understand."

-- Wade Rathke, the former chief organizer of ACORN, after telling reporter Jonathan Tilove "he expects large and well-rooted chapters, such as the one in New Orleans, to survive" - but before discovering the New Orleans chapter will be uprooted - which will probably isolate him further, from NOLA.com.