[from Tim Smith] It is almost as if someone was purposely overworking teachers and paying them very little. But only in the good old USA.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
© Brian McFadden The part of this comic that hit me the most was the very first panel. How did we somehow change from a country largely made up of immigrants, that used to be so welcoming to immigrants that we have a huge statue to welcome them, to a country that treats immigrants like […]
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Business Journals seem to be publishing articles that are downright liberal recently. One interesting example is this article — “The four business gangs that run the US” No, two of them are not the Democratic and Republican parties. We’re talking about the gangs with real power. Here they are: Military-industrial complex – Fifty years ago […]
© Jen Sorensen Well, it looks like it backfired. Republican plans to “reform” our electoral college voting system to make it even more unfair – and to boost Republican chances of winning the next presidential election, even if they lose the popular vote – couldn’t stand up to the glare of attention it received. And […]
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The media gets distracted by a non-issue, and puts their foot in it: So the White House calls their bluff:
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Saturday, February 2, 2013
© Ruben Bolling Yes it’s true, federal laws against computer crime are so vague and overreaching that pretty much everyone is guilty of violating them. Of course, these laws are invoked only when you piss someone powerful off, like Aaron Schwartz did. I have a friend who discovered that some computers at the company where […]
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In one of the largest academic scandals in recent history at the school, as many as 60 students have been forced to withdraw from Harvard University after they were found cheating on a final exam. Why is this ironic? Because the class was “Introduction to Congress”.
Glenn Beck reveals his vision for Utopia, and Jon Stewart points out the obvious flaw – that it looks more like a fascist tin-pot dictator’s home-owner’s association, which controls what you can and cannot do even more than the government Beck professes to hate:
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
This is hilarious. Talk about co-dependency!
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
The Republican governor of Florida has claimed that implementing Obamacare in Florida will cost the state billions of dollars. But now, the first detailed study of the costs shows that rather than costing the state money, it will actually save money. $300 million in the first year alone. Obamacare will be especially important in Florida, […]
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Finally! Score one (and a big one) against patent trolls. Newegg, an online electronics retailer, has won their patent appeal against Soverain Software. Soverain is a patent troll, a company that has never produced anything, but has managed to extort millions of dollars against companies including Amazon and The Gap, and was in the process […]
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Republican Roxanne Rubin is convinced we need Voter ID laws in order to prevent voter fraud. This has always been an issue with me. I just feel the system is flawed. If we’re showing ID for everything else, why wouldn’t we show our ID in order to vote? So she decided to prove how easy […]
Robert Reich makes a strong argument that the Republican party is finally unraveling. Ronald Reagan managed to put together a coalition of different factions who put aside their huge differences and united against common enemies, namely “communists and terrorists abroad, liberals and people of color at home”. But the 2012 presidential primary exposed the cracks […]
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© David Horsey After four (long) years of Obama bending over so far backward that he ended up looking more like a Republican than a Democrat, and getting nothing but hatred and contempt thrown back in his face, it takes a lot of chutzpah to accuse the president of not being bipartisan enough. Heck, Obama’s […]
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© Mike Luckovich I don’t think the word “compromise” means what you think it means.
