Yes Monty Python did turn “our house was so small we watched rat tace  live” into a joke. Yes it did entertain us, but…..(ODT)

His own process of radicalization provides the starting point for this part of the argument. “I saw people buying new phones every year and keeping the old ones in a drawer, while a few miles away, day laborers picked tomatoes, earning 45 cents for every 30-pound bucket. I saw reports of Americans being charged $5,000 by hospitals for an icepack and a bandage, or paying $1,200 a month in rent for a bunk bed.”

Why You Should Be a Socialist — and a Marxist