me (hearts) taibbi

Matt Taibbi gets better and better. As Rolling Stone's National Affairs Reporter (the job first held by Hunter S Thompson) he's been completely savaging the freaks that make up the US government. His latest piece is a doozy.

The Worst Congress Ever
How our national legislature has become a stable of thieves and perverts -- in five easy steps

There is very little that sums up the record of the U.S. Congress in the Bush years better than a half-mad boy-addict put in charge of a federal commission on child exploitation. After all, if a hairy-necked, raincoat-clad freak like Rep. Mark Foley can get himself named co-chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, one can only wonder: What the hell else is going on in the corridors of Capitol Hill these days?

These past six years were more than just the most shameful, corrupt and incompetent period in the history of the American legislative branch. These were the years when the U.S. parliament became a historical punch line, a political obscenity on par with the court of Nero or Caligula -- a stable of thieves and perverts who committed crimes rolling out of bed in the morning and did their very best to turn the mighty American empire into a debt-laden, despotic backwater, a Burkina Faso with cable.

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Al Gore's climate change leadership program with the Australian Conservation Foundation

via lukeii. I've applied, let's see if I get accepted...

Next month, Al Gore will be in Sydney, Australia to share his climate presentation training with a group of Australian volunteer presenters.

With the support of the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) and eminent Australian climate scientists, Al Gore will teach up to 75 specially-selected trainees the skills needed to deliver the slide presentation across Australia.

The Climate Project and ACF invite you to apply to be part of a once in a lifetime opportunity to join Al Gore\u2019s An Inconvenient Truth mission to spread the word about climate change.

The Australian sessions are scheduled from Saturday November 18 \u2013 Monday November 20. Click here to fill out an application form. Follow the prompts and remember to set "Sydney, AUS, November 18-20" as both your primary and secondary preferred training date.

The training will familiarize trainees with the climate science needed to deliver the presentation and equip them with new presentation skills.

Ready to become one of Al Gore's climate change messengers?

The application form must be returned online by 9am October 30.

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from lukeii, mostly for blithespirit