"Josh Marshall has a great term for what is happening in Oregon: white privilege performance art. We..."

“Josh Marshall has a great term for what is happening in Oregon: white privilege performance art. We have people engaging in armed insurrection over the vast oppression of being asked to pay a small fee when grazing their animals on public land; surely an important part of the story is the fact that the perpetrators know that they won’t face the consequences that would follow if, you know, some nonwhite group pulled a similar stunt — and they’re be Fox News heroes forever after.”

- Paul Krugman, Deadly Snits

from Stowe Boyd http://stoweboyd.com/post/136942111357