“Happy Presidents Day. This is a day when we celebrate history by getting great deals on mattresses.” – Craig Ferguson “I’m glad we have a day for the presidents, but shouldn’t we have a day for Congress when the Senate and the House can kick back and not worry about getting anything done? Oh, wait.” […]
© Clay Bennett Actually, it seems like they own us outside of work as well.
Don’t get me wrong — I love non-partisan fact checking sites like PolitiFact and FactCheck (even when I don’t entirely agree with their findings). But PolitiFact hit one of my hot buttons the other day when they perpetuated what I think is one of the biggest propaganda bamboozles of modern times. The story that hit […]
“President Obama met with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in Silicon Valley yesterday. Zuckerberg said he could create new jobs. The bad news? They’re all in Farmville.” – Conan O’Brien “President Obama had dinner with some of the top tech executives: the CEO of Facebook, the CEO of Apple, the CEO of Oracle, and their waiter, […]
This is the clearest explanation I’ve heard of what is really going on in Wisconsin. Republicans are using budget shortfalls for political gain. UPDATE: It is always difficult to sort out the truth from the political fiction in cases like this, but a good starting point is the PolitiFact Wisconsin website. UPDATE 2: The governor […]
© Ed Stein Egypt now has a smaller gap between the rich and the poor than we do. Only in America could the powers-that-be co-opt a popular uprising like this. Tea Partiers, by and large, are richer, whiter and older than the general population, and hardly represent the downtrodden and the disposessed. If anything, they […]
As they say, steal a loaf of bread and you will go to jail, steal millions of dollars and you go free. Or in this case, billions. Federal prosecutors have dropped the charges against Angelo Mozilo, the former CEO of Countrywide Financial. Mozilo was one of the highest paid executives in the country — between […]
“Experts say that what happened in Egypt proves that countries in the Middle East can move toward democracy without the U.S. invading them. George W. Bush said, ‘Now you tell me.’” – Jay Leno “The military is now running Egypt. Well, that never goes wrong, does it?” – David Letterman “Now that Hosni Mubarak is […]
Back in November, we quoted Bruce Schneier who claimed that the new TSA full body scanners won’t catch anybody. This is significant, because if we are going to unconditionally surrender our right to privacy, expose ourselves to dangerous X-rays, and pretty much roll over, it would be nice if we were doing all that so […]
Paul Krugman has some interesting comments about what’s going on in Wisconsin: In principle, every American citizen has an equal say in our political process. In practice, of course, some of us are more equal than others. Billionaires can field armies of lobbyists; they can finance think tanks that put the desired spin on policy […]
[From Rockett Power.] UPDATE: This is the kind of thing that happens when you take away a women’s right to make basic medical decisions about her own body.
This completely blows my mind. Maybe you don’t have to be completely insane to watch Glenn Beck, but it doesn’t hurt.
A majority of Republicans are not convinced that Obama was born in the United States. In fact, only 28% of Republican voters admit that Obama was born in the US, with 51% saying that he was not, and 21% unsure. Where in the world did they get that crazy idea? But what is really hilarious […]
On Friday, I posted an article about how powerful organizations manipulate public opinion by inundating social media sites with fake people. But why stop at social media sites? Why not just make up stories and get them printed as news? Which naturally brings us to Fox News. On Saturday, they posted a story about the […]
“On Thursday Hosni Mubarak said he would not leave Egypt until he was dead. On Friday the crowd said, ‘Deal!’ So he fled.” – Jay Leno “Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is thinking of moving to Los Angeles. Before you get him a roommate, just know that he’s really hard to evict.” – Conan O’Brien […]
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