I don’t know. Maybe it is just another case of the Republicans accusing the Democrats of something they themselves are guilty of. FiveThirtyEight has an interesting article about identity politics. For example, The GOP has long accused Democrats of supporting affirmative action mainly to attract minority votes, even if it didn’t actually help that minority. […]
“Hey, listen to this. According to The New York Times, the Secret Service agents responsible for letting those party crashers sneak into the White House have now been placed on leave. And today, the party crashers felt so bad for them, they called and said, ‘Listen, we know how you can get back in.’” – […]
A fascinating article in Ars Technica about Internet Service Providers got me going on the issue of “too big to fail”. In the article, they talk about how many people are unhappy with their ISPs. “If complaints aren’t about delivering the promised speeds, they’re about the crappy customer service, billing problems, frequent outages, and the […]
I think this speaks for itself (note that the numbers add up to 120%): So the real question is: Did Fox News falsify research to support their own theories on Global Warming? I think it is pretty obvious they did. Fox News, the news for people who are too stupid to add. UPDATE: Jon Stewart […]
© Jan Sorensen What really cracks me up about this comic is the M.A.L.E. acronym.
Sarah Palin gave a speech at the Gridiron Club for its 2009 Winter Dinner. She’s actually quite funny, and gets in a couple of jabs at herself: Good evening. It’s great to be in Washington and I am loving the weather. I braved the elements and went out for a jog! Or, as Newsweek calls […]
“The tea party nation announced last week that Sarah Palin will headline what is being called the first national tea party convention in February. It is expected to be the nation’s largest ever gathering of misspelled signs.” – Seth Meyers “During an interview Tuesday on the ‘Today’ show, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, the couple who […]
© Matt Davies This comic is the one of the clearest explanations of why in every recession we have ever had, the unemployment rate remain high for years after the economy starts improving. Employers will only start thinking about hiring after they are sure they will have the revenues to pay those workers. After all, […]
Back in the days when I was frequently negotiating legal contracts, I had a trick I sometimes used to gain an unfair advantage. Most legal documents would be sent back in forth in electronic form, typically using Microsoft Word. But what most lawyers didn’t realize was that when you deleted something from a document, Word […]
The next time you hear some teabagger complaining about how bailing out the banks ran up the deficit, just point out to them that the big bailout (more properly known as TARP) is actually doing better than predicted. In fact, the portion that was loaned out to banks will actually be paid back with a […]
“Well, let’s see. I’m trying to sum up President Obama’s first 11 months in office. He gave billions to Wall Street, cracked down on illegal immigrants getting health care, and he’s sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. You know something? He may go down in history as our greatest Republican president ever.” – Jay Leno […]
Roger Ebert has an interesting article in his journal pointing out the hypocrisy of people who think it is in bad taste to discuss religion in public, but have no problem talking about New-Age beliefs such as astrology, psychics, reincarnation and past lives, healing crystals, Tarot cards, or Feng Shui. As Ebert puts it: If […]
© Matt Bors Despite the fact that I find this comic pretty funny, I have to admit that it does make me feel better that Obama was actually listening to people and doing research when coming to the decision about what to do in Afghanistan. Could you imagine the same thing from the previous occupant? […]
The news media has been reporting on something they are calling “ClimateGate” — some internal emails from the Climatic Research Unit in England that were hacked and leaked. Some climate change skeptics are claiming that these emails prove that climate change is bogus. Hardly. I’ve looked into the emails and the code, and there just […]
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