Screaming "Free Pancakes" Works Just As Well

"This is the big story of 2009, if you ask me, the meta-story of what did, and didn't happen, in the first year of Obama's administration. The people who voted for him weren't organized in any kind of new or powerful way, and the special interests--banks, energy companies, health interests, car-makers, the military-industrial complex--sat first at the table and wrote the menu. Myth met reality, and came up wanting."

-- Micah L. Sifry, who never can seem to make enough time for explaining why that Myth Meets Reality thing must keep happening - yet it does, just as science predicts, but usually by spitting out bones for proof - and so Micah shouldn't be surprised when that's used against him/her, as a possible opening salvo from those in the sillier quarters, in undermining what he/she better know is his/her already-too-vulnerable role as our future's very-first self-appointed we-don't-know-what-it-is techPresident.