money. new estimates out this week are that tv ads for the 2012 election will total more than $3 billion. we re told to expect almost a quarter billion dollars of that will come just from karl rove s group, american cross roads group which announced last month they were doubling their fund-raising goal to $240 million. 92% of the millions they raise this year so far was from three people. three zillionaires. that fund-raising isn t going to be hard. every season is campaign season, where every campaign season is driven by cash and where there s so much cash the cash only counts if you can divide it into $100 million increments. we are not much for public intellectuals in this country. we have celebrities and politicians and activists, public intellectuals we do not have many. lawrence lusti fwrks g is an intellectual we have as a nation. the way you can tell that