Suffering from “Outrage Fatigue”

I swear, it’s getting to the point where there’s just so much bullshit it’s mind-numbing. (Which, I suppose, is the point)

Today’s batch:

Exxon-Mobile was instrumental in shaping the Bush administrations’ climate-change policy (backing out of Kyoto)

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, behind closed doors, has approved expansion of the Patriot Act that includes new ‘administrative subpoena’ authority would let the FBI write and approve its own search orders for intelligence investigations, without prior judicial approval.

…and still no mass-media coverage of the Downing Street Memo.

If you need a clearer view of what sort of country we’re living in now, check out this lovely poster which has cropped up in MARC (Baltimore to DC) commuter trains:

(…and yes, that’s real. Not a spoof.)