Prosthetic Conscience

Some of these are a little out of date given the unfortunate passage of the bailout act, but never mind.

• Commentary: Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answer - CNN.com
  

  An article from an academic economist opposing the bailout.

• The Outbreak
  

  A fun interactive zombie movie.

• The Wall Street bailout and the threat of dictatorship
  

  Excellent analysis in the WSWS of a very revealing article in the Unquotable Rag (Washington Post) by a member of the CFR. Basically, this guy considers the failure of the Wall Street bailout as showing that “American political elites have lost the ability to quickly respond to a national challenge by imposing their collective will.” And he considers that a bad thing.

  The writer of the analysis does engage in a little Constitutionolatry (unusual for a Commie) in saying that the Constitution did not replace the Articles in order to allow political elites to quickly impose their collective will. Of course it did! Isn’t he aware of the Anti-Federalists‘ objections to the Constitution?

  But it’s nevertheless an important analysis. The conflict over the bailout is the first time in recent memory that the elite media has outright failed in manufacturing the consent of the American people to the consensus of American elites. Representative democracy is pretty weak tea, but we haven’t even properly had that in years; it’s bracing to see what it actually looks like.