I finally got around to reading Tim Dickinson's long article in Rolling Stone about the Koch brothers and their unseemly empire. Pretty scary stuff. I keep being reminded of the Texas oil zillionaire H.L. Hunt, back when he was reportedly the richest man in the world and was saying things about how only rich people should be allowed to vote…or you should get more votes based on your wealth…or something like that. He always seemed pretty furious that a poor person's ballot carried as much weight as his.
If you read the piece on the Kochs, make sure you read their rebuttal. And then if you read their rebuttal, make sure you read Dickinson's rebuttal to their rebuttal. He's right that they don't really refute a lot of the critical things he wrote. It looks like they tossed his piece to some lawyer with the orders to tear it apart…and the lawyer didn't have the ammo to do that so he just tried to sound huffy and indignant.