Go Ahead, Call Me Ishmael, Motherfrakking Teabagger

While looking around for some Moby Dick-related material for an 8 year old reading the book, I came across this Chris Hedges thing, and it is pretty darn good.  It's even good for those of you who may not be 8 and may not be reading Moby Dick.  I think that the great American cultural critics like Melville and Sam Clemens would have a difficult time believing the state of modern American inanity, with the likes of Ted Cruz and John Boehner and their unhinged antics dismantling the democratic experiment.