I produced the above search results yesterday when researching the Lou Dobbs story. Left such a bad taste in my mouth I though it would be worth sharing in a post all its own. Don’t know why exactly, but it strikes me as somehow emblematic of the worst, dehumanizing tendencies of early 21st century, automated, digital Capitalism.

Readings and Resources for Planning Your Black Friday [NYT]

You’d be forgiven for thinking the END IS NIGH when you learned that Lou Dobbs doesn’t hate all Mexicans any more. In fact he loves them so much that the recently departed (from CNN) immigrant basher and birther conspiracy theorist has decided that rather than shipping all 12,000,000 of them back to Mexico, Dobbs now opines that, well heck, come to think of it: wouldn’t it just be a dandy ol’ thing to offer the good ones a path to legalization?

“Whatever you have thought of me in the past, I can tell you right now that I am one of your greatest friends and I mean for us to work together,” he said in a live interview with Telemundo’s Maria Celeste. “I hope that will begin with Maria and me and Telemundo and other media organizations and others in this national debate that we should turn into a solution rather than a continuing debate and factional contest.”

Mr. Dobbs twice mentioned a possible legalization plan for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., saying at one point that “we need the ability to legalize illegal immigrants under certain conditions.” Read more »

Tone deaf doesn’t even begin to describe it:

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade: New mega balloons get set to soar [Daily News]

For all we know, Bubba taped some naughty Monica parodies with Buddy and Socks, but we can only remember the horror of BarneyCam. We have an obligation to send you off for the holiday with appropriate dread, however, so here’s the White House Turkey Preview. We promise to make up for it — big time — Thanksgiving morning.

For a moment, we thought that Sarah Palin copped a roach from Dana Perino:

Really? A tax on national defense? I hear liberal Congressional proposals and I, like most Americans, wonder if they’re serious. We’re going to put a price tag on security?

Like most Americans, we wonder whether Talibunny’s a sociopath, but that’s another topic. The issue here apparently is that Nancy Pelosi is considering a “graduated surtax on American taxpayers to finance the war in Afghanistan,” so that China doesn’t have to keep underwriting our empire.

And much to the amazement of most Americans, it seems there is a price tag on security:

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