has anyone read this article about the current congress? I know Loogs gets it and I'm suyre he can offer more insight to this than what I've heard, but so far it's appalling. In addition to shattering the least-worked days record by a month, they also seem to have taken the petty, pointed one-sidedness to an entirely new plane. a fucking scary one.

they're interviewing the author right now on democracy now and it's just pathetic for both sides of the aisle. we should just torch all of it and rebuild.

transcript and mp3 of the interview here

I bring the gasoline. Do we get to lock the senators in their first? I hope so.

For the record, I turned down TWO of the races mentioned. Guess which ones. I haven't read the issue yet, just leafed through it.

I was surprised (well, not really) to see our Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif.) listed as one of the 10 worst Congressmen in that Rolling Stone.

Pombo, chair of the House Resources Committee and a zealous advocate of major environmental rollbacks -- among them, weakening the Endangered Species Act, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the outer continental shelf, selling off national parks and monuments, and changing mining law to allow thousands or even millions of acres of public land to be transferred into private hands.

"Pombo hasn't met a part of the country that he doesn't want to drill, mine, or develop," says Mark Longabaugh, former political director for the League of Conservation Voters who is now spearheading a Defenders of Wildlife campaign against Pombo. "He tops the list of history's most ruthless environmental bad boys." But Pombo's transgressions, eco and otherwise, are catching up with him, Longabaugh says: "He's gotten himself mired in a number of ethical dustups, and this year faces the most difficult election of his career."

This guy need to lose his cushy spot.