There is a very interesting article in the New Yorker about Noam Chomsky. It is interesting, however it also does a job to discredit him by accusing him of being a liar, having no solutions to the problems he rails against, and basically a patently negative person.

I don't think that it's completely fair as a criticism [after all, would you be very positive and hopeful if you had spent your life observing the unseemly goings-on of government?], but nevertheless, it's good to see attention being paid to someone who has devoted his life to something more meaningful than the O'Reilly Factor.
I really shouldn't even have brought that up, because unfortunately I visited the website and I have to say it makes me sick. These assholes are such cheerleaders for the status-quo it makes me sick. These are the same people who would have gladly participate in book-burnings. Ugh. It just make me sick.