"Platypus" sums it all up quite nicely

Posted: 2010-07-13

ChaseDS.net Presents: How To Deal With Incompetency

• Step 1: Practice Deep-Breathing exercises.
• Step 2: Lots of Woodford Reserve and a quiet, darkened room.
• Step 3: There is no Step 3.

Recommended Reading Material

Posted: 2010-07-06

From Philalawyer.net:

The Giant Sucking Sound (Why the "Fattened Middle" Deserves No Quarter)

My alternative title: What's been wrong with the United States since the mid-nineties and why the economic situation should come as a shock to exactly no one.

Either way, it's a must-read.