Life In The Blogosphere

Frank J. at IMAO produces the following picture:

You could substitute maybe 85% of political blogs for Daily Kos in this description. 

Today's must read is Rod Dreher.  A sample:

In my back yard the other night, we sat by the fire, several of us, talking about what we'd do if hard times came and realizing that we have no idea, no idea at all. None of us have serious debt, but we confessed that we'd spent these fat years drinking too much Heineken and saving too little. Who has much in savings, anyway? Old folks like my father, that's who.

Sometimes you get to thinking that a stiff slug of forced austerity might be good for us all. It would compel us to become more self-reliant, to focus more on our families and communities, and to cultivate simplicity. I'm susceptible to this fantasy, but then I remember how my grandfather had to be away from his wife and kids for four grueling years, on the road trying to make a living. Many nights, if my dad or his brother hadn't shot any squirrels in the woods that day, there was no meat on the table.

Besides, sudden shattering poverty and the subsequent social unraveling in Weimar Germany didn't work out so great for the world, did it? Show of hands: Who's confident that contemporary America, which lacks the social cohesion the nation had in the 1930s, would be able to pull together as it did during the Great Depression?