Liberal Talk Radio

Good op-ed in the Times this weekend on reforming the farm bill. The farm bill is one of those famous pieces of pork(!) that no one likes except big agriculture. It’s a travesty, but — and this is the ultra-cynic in me coming out — it will never get any attention so long as Archer Daniels Midland underwrites Meet the Press.*

Read Michael Pollan article in last month’s NYT Magazine for a full dissection of how the farm bill is literally killing us.

* which will continue to endlessly replay the pre-Iraq War debate until Tim Russert feels like he’s absolved himself of his guilt for not grilling Cheney harder about WMD.