The end of the “naughties” is nigh, so I expect we will be inundated by articles about the last decade. Luckily, this one is pretty funny (in an ironic sort of way of course). Fortune magazine has an article listing the ten stupidest business moments of the decade. I’ll list some of them here, but […]
Michelle Bachmann spoke yesterday at a rally against health care reform, and attempted to whip the attendees into a frenzy with a fancy literary reference, telling the gathered teabaggers “It’s the charge of the light brigade!” Watch it yourself: Good thing she doesn’t know that the light brigade was massacred, in that famous poem by […]
It is no surprise that Republicans hate ACORN. After all, ACORN is an organization of community activists, and Republicans really hate our president — the community activist in chief. Even worse, ACORN mostly helps poor people, including helping them register to vote, and most of them vote Democratic. Initially, Republicans claimed that ACORN was guilty […]
© Tom Toles Five US nationals were arrested in Pakistan for possible extremist links.
Interesting interview with Noam Chomsky. Two (longish) quotes: [After WWII] Business propagated a tremendous propaganda offensive. The scale surprised me when I read the scholarship — it’s enormous, and it’s been very effective. There were two major targets: one is unions, the other is democracy. Well, [to them] democracy means getting people to regard government […]
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 […]
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 […]
© 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? […]
According to an article in the NY Times, The Dallas Morning News has restructured its management so that news editors now report directly to the executives who mange ad sales. According to the Times this “overturns longstanding traditions in American newspapers aimed at shielding news judgments from business concerns.” Does this make you want to […]
Two days ago, conservative blogger Charles Johnson posted “Why I Parted Ways With The Right” — a concise explanation of why he “won’t be going over the cliff” with the American right-wing-nuts. He names names, including a list of fascists, racists, bigots, white supremacists, homophobes, misogynists, anti-science luddites, anti-govermnent lunatics, conspiracy theorists, and promoters of […]
You know things have gotten pretty ironic when it is the Libertarians defending Obama. What wasn’t ironic was the attack from Fox News that prompted the defense — their article “Obama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents” (which was promptly picked up by the Drudge Report): President Obama has shattered the budget record for first-year […]
According to several sources (Wikipedia, GlobalFirePower, Global Issues) the US military spending is far greater than any other country on earth. In fact, US military spending is almost half (48%) of the world total! Yes, that means that we spend more on war than pretty much all other countries in the world put together. World […]
This was emailed to me. I have no idea if it is legit, and I’m not sure I agree with the sentiment, but it is too cute to not publish. Hi, I am a sophomore at Tech Valley High. For one of our Social Studies and English projects a group of four students had to […]
Yesterday, I reported on the irony of McCain’s former health care advisor, who is losing his health insurance and has a preexisting condition. But the irony keeps coming. Earlier this month, wing-nut Michele Bachmann sponsored a protest against health care reform at the Capitol, with angry protesters holding signs like the one to the right, […]
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