Recommended Reading

I haven't linked to a Matt Taibbi piece in a long time so here are three links, all worth your clicking-on and perusing.

For Rolling Stone, Taibbi wrote a long piece about Mitt Romney and Bain Capital. There's a tendency to think of Romney as the candidate of Big Business but the takeaway from Taibbi's article is that Romney is the candidate of one kind of Big Business…and not the kind that creates jobs and brings forth new, innovative products. He's from the kind of Big Business that turns a profit even if it means strip-mining the other kind of Big Business. You can read this article here.

If you do, follow it up with this P.S. blog post. And then you might read Taibbi's post about the Republican Convention.

Taibbi, by the way, is not pro-Obama. Judging from his past articles, he'll be just as rough or rougher on the Democratic Convention. He thinks both parties are abetting those who screw over taxpayers and the middle class to amass excessive wealth. If anything, he's rougher on Democrats because he doesn't expect anything better from Republicans. I don't always agree with the guy but I wish I could disagree with him more than I do.