Joshua Green on Bill Maher, June 10th, 2011

Conservatives flatter themselves by saying that their talk-radio gripes about healthcare or whatever, are tantamount to things like D-Day or Washington crossing the Delaware, because, without that, they’d just be a bunch of angry, white men who don’t want to pay taxes and don’t care about other people.

David Simon responds to Attorney General Eric Holder’s request for a new season of The Wire (via maxistentialist)

The Attorney-General’s kind remarks are noted and appreciated. I’ve spoken to Ed Burns and we are prepared to go to work on season six of The Wire if the Department of Justice is equally ready to reconsider and address its continuing prosecution of our misguided, destructive and dehumanising drug prohibition.