Baleful quote of the day

"In Texas people drowned in the recent floods because local officials didn't give the alarm soon enough, strongly enough. I fear that we are in the same situation on a national scale, though it's a flood seeking to overwhelm our laws and rights and functioning systems and principles in this case. I want a louder warning. I'm trying to give one myself." - Rebecca Solnit, "Please Shout Fire. This Theater is Burning"

I was just thinking to myself the other day how strange it is hearing the faux neutral voice used to described actions tantamount to the incipient stages of totalitarianism; in the name of objectivity top news agencies are misinforming their audience by not appropriately conveying the level of danger the nation is in from democratic backsliding. We need more voices like Solnit's.