I Heart Franklin Foer

This article in The New Republic almost moved me to tears. It's very similar in theme and rhetoric to the Washington Monthly piece by Bruce Reed from a while back, but a bit tighter on both counts, in my opinion. Among other things, it reminded me to be pissed off about the Bushies' decision to move peer review out of the agencies and into OIRA. Bitches.

This is a good theme, I think, and one that can tie in well with the corporate corruption meme that pops up every now and then: When nobody's around to play the honest broker, disaster follows. all these guys really are cut from the same crappy cloth.