Welcome to the plutocracy! Or, "This really fucked up my Fantasy House of Representatives team."

Bill Moyers. (Photo: Martin Voelker)

Why listen to so-called pundits or even the president's State of the Union speech when you can feast on Bill Moyers' impeccable perspective. Speaking of which, Mr. Moyers offers a good yardstick of the relative importance of current events by reviving George Bernard Shaw's trenchant complaint that journalists are seemingly unable to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.

And from there his speech gets even better...