Don't Hold Your Breath

Bill Ayers's dream cabinet: "I would have picked Noam Chomsky for state, Naomi Klein for defense, Bernardine Dohrn for Attorney General, Bill Fletcher for commerce, James Thindwa for labor, Barbara Ransby for human services, Paul Krugman for treasury, and Amy Goodman for press secretary." Kind of an odd mix of leftists and liberals, no? Further proof, I would argue, that the left/liberal distinction has lost, and continues to lose, much of its meaning. (Moreover, how does Paul Krugman feel about being in Bill Ayers's dream cabinet?)