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- 2014/03/07 [L..T] Yet another ACA "horror story" draws scrutiny «After all the recent troubles conservatives have had with "Obamacare victims" in attack ads that turned out to be wrong, the Koch-financed Americans for Prosperity wouldn't push its luck with another dubious commercial, would it?»
- 2014/03/07 [L..T] Venezuela, Journalistic Malpractice, and the 'Paper of Record' "NYT violates standards of basic economics and journalistic procedures in reporting on Venezuela inflation"
- 2014/03/07 [L..T] Millennial generation is cause for liberal optimism A new study by the Pew Research Center provides reason for political optimism: Members of the so-called millennial generation, born after 1980, are more liberal than the preceding generations on a range of issues.
- 2014/03/06 [L..T] Why Is Our Government (And Deep State) So Incompetent? Though many may reckon the U.S. government (and its Deep State) are not so much incompetent as merely evil, I suggest incompetence sows the seeds of evil consequences.
- 2014/03/05 [L..T] Kiev snipers hired by Maidan leaders - leaked EU's Ashton phone tape The snipers who shot at protesters and police in Kiev were allegedly hired by Maidan leaders, according to a leaked phone conversation between the EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and Estonian foreign affairs minister, which has emerged online.
- 2014/03/05 [L..T] Who is really responsible for the Ukrainian crisis? Someone, namely US and Canadian oil and gas barons, stands to make a helluva lot of money off this deal.
- 2014/03/05 [L..T] Russia puts Ukraine far-right leader on international wanted list over calls for terrorism The leader of the Ukrainian radical group Pravy Sektor (Right Sector), Dmitry Yarosh, has been put on an international wanted list and charged with inciting terrorism, after asking Doku Umarov to attack Russia.
- 2014/03/04 [L..T] Global Warming Slows Antarctica's Coldest Currents The deep, salty currents that carry oxygen and nutrients to the ocean depths have been disappearing over the past few decades.
- 2014/03/04 [L..T] A New Fake Report On Climate Change. Two global warming denialists make a claim which would be important if it weren't totally incorrect, which it is.
- 2014/03/04 [L..T] Open letter of Ukrainian Jews to Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin.
- 2014/03/04 [L..T] Obama to Republicans: You're Right, Let's Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit
- 2014/03/04 [L..T] [[2014/03/04/Ukraine's Jews lambaste Putin in open letter|]]
- 2014/03/03 [L..T] The Washington Post Uses Biased Experts to Promote Propaganda on Venezuela
- 2014/03/02 [L..T] Fox News host calls out Darrell Issa for "highest level of falsehood" on Benghazi Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday confronted Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) after he was rated as having the "highest level of falsehood" for his obsession with the terrorist attacks in Benghazi.
- 2014/03/02 [L..T] Ross Douthat looks at gay marriage and wonders what's love got to do with it ...if you think that marriage is not a synergistic coupling of sexual variables for the express purpose of pooping out babies from a vagina Pez dispenser, Ross thinks that you are setting your sights way too low and [you] are probably callow and unthinking...
- 2014/03/02 [L..T] Obama pushes Israel to stop assassinations of Iran nuclear scientists President Barack Obama is pressuring Israel to stop carrying out assassinations of top nuclear scientists in Iran as the Islamic Republic continues its negotiations with world powers over its uranium enrichment program, according to a new book.
- 2014/03/02 [L..T] Tug of War Over Ukraine Intensifies Sunday was a day of messages and mopping up, with Ukrainian and Western leaders trying to dissuade President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia from overplaying his hand and ordering an invasion of eastern Ukraine, even as Russian forces and their sympathizers in Crimea worked to disarm or neutralize any Ukrainian resistance there.
- 2014/03/01 [L..T] [[2014/03/01/Apple CEO to Global Warming Deniers|]]
- 2014/03/01 [L..T] Russian forces in Ukraine could be a stabilizing factor in a country with no legitimate govt As President Putin weighs using military forces in a Ukraine plunging deeper into political turmoil, Alexander Mercouris, international law expert, tells RT that the presence [of] Russia's forces could be a restraining factor for all the parties involved.
- 2014/03/01 [L..T] Ukraine alleges Russian "invasion" of Crimea as Obama warns of "costs" US President Barack Obama issued a statement Friday evening denouncing "reports of military movements" taken by Russia in Ukraine, warning that "there will be costs for any military intervention." The comments come as the US/European-stoked regime change operation in Ukraine threatens to develop into a conflict between Western powers and Russia.
- 2014/03/01 [L..T] Situation in Ukraine
- 2014/03/01 [L..T] Ukraine's Donetsk calls for referendum, votes to restore Russian's official status The City Council in the eastern city of Donetsk has refused to recognize Ukraine's self-imposed government and called for a referendum on the region's status. The council has made Russian alongside Ukrainian the official language in the region.
- 2014/02/28 [L..T] Indianapolis cops must allow citizens to film police activity after $200k settlement
- 2014/02/28 [L..T] Drought and Global Climate Change: An Analysis of Statements by Roger Pielke Jr I replied that the indicated comments by Dr. Pielke, and similar ones attributed by Senator Sessions to Dr. Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama, were not representative of main- stream views on this topic in the climate-science community; and I promised to provide for the record a more complete response with relevant scientific references.
- 2014/02/28 [L..T] The real story behind the FCC's study of newsrooms "Sometimes research takes on a life of its own and becomes more like a Rorschach test for a national policy controversy. That's what's happened to a review of the literature on the critical information needs of American communities that I and colleagues from around the country conducted for the Federal Communications Commission in July 2012."
- 2014/02/28 [L..T] The Gox Crater: Crowd Detectives Reveal Billion-Dollar Heist as Inside Job As smoke clears on the implosion of the Empty Gox bitcoin exchange, thousands of people in the community committed to revealing the truth behind the stonewalling exchange. What was claimed first to be a technical problem, then an outside theft, has been conclusively determined that the MtGox management knew too much, too long ago, to have this be an ordinary case of theft.
- 2014/02/27 [L..T] Astonishingly awful Supreme Court decision lets the government seize all your assets before trial I'll just defer [to] what others have already said about the court's ruling in Kaley v. U.S. this week.
- 2014/02/27 [L..T] One-third of California town's police force arrested for scheming cars from poor Hispanics Investigators say King City police ordered hundreds of vehicles to be impounded – most often those driven by Hispanic immigrants – and then either kept the cars for themselves or re-sold them for profit.
- 2014/02/26 [L..T] Why the Plan to Dig a Canal Across Nicaragua Could Be a Very Bad Idea By the end of this year, if a Chinese entrepreneur gets his way, digging will begin on a waterway that would stretch roughly 180 miles across Nicaragua to unite the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Giant container ships capable of carrying consumer electronics by the millions (or T-shirts by the billions) could begin making the passage by 2019, according to the most optimistic projections.
- 2014/02/26 [L..T] David Byrne, Marc Ribot, Chris Ruen Lead Rally For Radio to Pay Performance Royalties The Content Creators Coalition sponsored an event in New York City calling on terrestrial radio to pay artists performance rights royalties.
- 2014/02/26 [L..T] David Byrne Covered 'Just a Friend' So Biz Markie Can Get Paid Talking Heads frontman performs for Content Creators Coalition, a new royalties advocacy group
- 2014/02/25 [L..T] Groom kidnappings: A blot on India's Bihar Poor and unable to find grooms for their daughters, many still seize men at gunpoint in what is known as pakadwa shaadi.
- 2014/02/25 [L..T] Durham private school's move draws objections Members opted for the postponement after Patrick Byker, attorney for a next-door neighbor of the site, pointed out the school's advocates hadn't addressed how the project might affect the value of nearby property.
- 2014/02/25 [L..T] Secrets of the Vatican Video (83:41): "An inside look at the scandals that rocked Benedict's papacy."
- 2014/02/24 [L..T] Is the US backing neo-Nazis in Ukraine? John McCain and other State Department members have troubling ties to the ultra-nationalist Svoboda party.
- 2014/02/23 [L..T] Symposium: How to understand Hobby Lobby
- 2014/02/23 [L..T] Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers You might find your Prime membership morally indefensible after reading these stories about worker mistreatment.
- 2014/02/21 [L..T] From the fringe to the Hill It's alarmingly common to hear congressional Republicans repeat some deeply odd conspiracy theories. But more often than not, the theories didn't start on Capitol Hill; they just ended up there.
- 2014/02/20 [L..T] Is Obama Trying to Control the News with FCC Monitoring?
- 2014/02/19 [L..T] The Increasingly Unequal States of America
- 2014/02/19 [L..T] Hobby Lobby Part VIII: Hobby Lobby's identification of the "precise religious exercise at issue here," and some thoughts on whether federal law substantially burdens it "Most of my previous posts here about Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood have been devoted to the question of whether the plaintiffs have adequately alleged that federal law imposes a "substantial burden" on their exercise of religion--the threshold question under RFRA. I've tried to make two principal points..."
- 2014/02/19 [L..T] Celebrities, European Leaders Push for Final Deal on Wall Street Tax A new viral video with Andrew Lincoln of "The Walking Dead" is one more setback for financial industry lobbyists fighting a financial transaction tax.
- 2014/02/18 [L..T] Sex Is Not an 'Economy' and You Are Not Merchandise The longer I live and the more I read and the deeper I fall in love and the less I give a fuck and the more patience I lose and the more perspective I gain, the more certain I become that the people who most aggressively try to define love for others have never actually experienced it themselves.
- 2014/02/18 [L..T] Cops Interpreted Sign Language as Threat, Handcuffed, Used Stun Gun, and Beat Deaf Man, Lawsuit Alleges
- 2014/02/18 [L..T] The Effects of a Minimum-Wage Increase on Employment and Family Income "Increasing the minimum wage would have two principal effects on low-wage workers. Most of them would receive higher pay that would increase their family's income, and some of those families would see their income rise above the federal poverty threshold. But some jobs for low-wage workers would probably be eliminated, the income of most workers who became jobless would fall substantially, and the share of low-wage workers who were employed would probably fall slightly."
- 2014/02/17 [L..T] Cheap Words Amazon is good for customers. But is it good for books?
- 2014/02/14 [L..T] How the Myth of the "Negro Cocaine Fiend" Helped Shape American Drug Policy "In 1914, a racist fiction helped sell one of the nation's first drug laws; 100 years later, it's still with us."
- 2014/02/13 [L..T] Why a small German village bet big on renewables "Regardless of debate about the success of Germany's renewables revolution, there is no denying that a small town in the corner of rural eastern Germany, 40 miles south of Berlin, may be one of the best examples of decentralized self-sufficiency. Feldheim (population 150), in the cash-strapped state of Brandenburg, was a communist collective farm back when Germany still was divided into East and West. Now it is a model renewable energy village putting into practice Germany's vision of a renewably powered future."
- 2014/02/07 [L..T] Tens of thousands of Muslims flee Christian militias in Central African Republic "Tens of thousands of Muslims are fleeing to neighboring countries by plane and truck as Christian militias stage brutal attacks, shattering the social fabric of this war-ravaged nation. [..] In towns and villages as well as here in the capital, Christian vigilantes wielding machetes have killed scores of Muslims, who are a minority here, and burned and looted their houses and mosques in recent days, according to witnesses, aid agencies and peacekeepers."
- 2014/02/03 [L..T] The painful case of Pastor Scott Lively, homophobe to the world In fact, I argue, minorities are much better off in a system that protects hateful or discriminatory speech than in a system that protects them from it.
- 2014/02/01 [L..T] BIG and Technological Unemployment: Chicken Little Versus the Economists "The paper rehearses arguments for and against the prediction of massive technological unemployment."
- 2014/02/01 [L..T] Majority Interim Report: Benghazi Investigation Update "Immediately after the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012, the Committee on Armed Services began an ongoing extensive effort to evaluate the response of the Department of Defense (DOD). In addition to assessing how the Department reacted, the committee seeks to determine what preparations the U.S. military had made for the possibility of an attack in Libya, and what arrangements have subsequently been put into place to minimize the possibility of a similar recurrence."
- 2014/01/30 [L..T] Opting Out Of Medicaid Expansion: The Health And Financial Impacts
- 2014/01/26 [L..T] Map: Publicly Funded Schools That Are Allowed to Teach Creationism. "Thousands of schools in states across the country can use taxpayer money to cast doubt on basic science."
- 2014/01/21 [L..T] Senator questions Council of Islamic Ideology "Senator Farhatullah Babar on Monday questioned recent pronouncements of the Council of Islamic Ideology and asked if the council was a legal entity even after having submitted its final report to parliament in 1997 as required under the constitution."
- 2014/01/13 [L..T] Chris Christie Vetoes Bill Allowing Transgender People To Amend Birth Certificates
- 2014/01/13 [L..T] Amazon Has Jedi Mind-Tricked You Into Forgetting It's Pretty Much Walmart Amazon.com is the best-loved company in America, despite being very similar to one of the least-loved companies in America: Walmart.
- 2014/01/08 [L..T] Kentucky Democratic Congressional Candidate Goes Undercover And Finds A Broken Economy. Awesome! For the past couple months I worked for United Parcel Service, Louisville Kentucky, as an "air handler" loading and unloading cargo aircraft...
- 2014/01/03 [L..T] How I learned to stop worrying and love Amazon The online retailer has reshaped bookselling since it entered the trade in 1995. But Amazon's aggressive and "anti-competitive" tactics, especially for selling ebooks, are raising hackles in an industry under stress.
- 2013/12/30 [L..T] For Economic Stability, Follow the French "The lie is that raising income taxes on rich people and hugely profitable companies hurts economies and even leads to unemployment. The truth is that raising income taxes on rich people and hugely profitable companies actually helps economies and causes companies to hire more and more people, thus lowering unemployment."
- 2013/12/17 [L..T] The Future Is All Robots. But Will We Even Notice?
- 2013/12/10 [L..T] Give Me Amendments or Give Me Death "Inside the secretive campaign by state legislators to pass conservative amendments in 34 states and rewrite the Constitution."
- 2013/11/07 [L..T] 10 Homophobic Quotes by Orson Scott Card, Author of Ender's Game «It is both funny and sad that such a gifted writer has nothing worthwhile to say on the subject of LGBTA rights. Instead, backed by his tired religious convictions, he makes the same, dry, awful arguments that we've come to expect from our basement-dwelling politicians. The great-great-grandson of award-winning polygamist Brigham Young moralizing against social taboos? With that hilarious hypocrisy, he might as well be touring with Dave Chappelle.»
- 2013/11/04 [L..T] [[2013/11/04/Barilla pasta to make inclusive ads|]]
- 2013/10/31 [L..T] Orson Scott Card: Mentor, Friend, Bigot «These days, it's easier for me to think of them as two separate people -- the Card I knew, whose books I loved; and the increasingly unbalanced and extremist pundit whose worldview scarcely counts me as a person. But that's reductionist, and a disservice to both. Card is a monster who helped me learn to write, an author of hateful screed whose novels taught lonely, angry kids compassion and gave them their first sense of home. None of those things makes the others go away. None of those things makes the others stop mattering.»
- 2013/10/19 [L..T] United States v. Bundy
- 2013/10/17 [L..T] [[2013/10/17/Chain email says Nancy Pelosi will earn $803,700 Dollars a year for LIFE|]]
- 2013/10/12 [L..T] Despite what you may have heard in the press, Germany's transition to renewable power has been a stunning success. Energy analyst Chris Nelder runs down the facts. "Major English-language media have been propagating a false narrative about the stunning success of Germany's transition to renewable energy: the Energiewende. To hear them tell it, the transition has been a massive failure, driving up power prices, putting Germany's grid at risk of blackouts, and inspiring a mass revolt against renewables. Nothing could be further from the truth."
- 2013/10/10 [L..T] The Time Jeff Bezos Went Thermonuclear on Diapers.com "Amazon tracks its competitors extremely closely. So when an upstart called Diapers.com began catching on with parents by allowing them to easily schedule recurring orders of diapers and other essentials, Jeff Bezos took notice..."
- 2013/10/09 [L..T] Koch Bros. gave $500k to Heritage Action
- 2013/09/30 [L..T] The Barilla Boycott, A Lesson In Respect "When Guido Barilla gave a radio interview last week, he stepped on a land mine of LGBT issues. While attempting to write about it from a mass market retail angle, this contributor did too."
- 2013/09/17 [L..T] The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?
- 2013/09/10 [L..T] Technology and the Distribution of Wealth There is a question so important to the modern economy that it often hides in plain view. I'm talking about the role that technology plays in the distribution of wealth. This connection between our distribution of societal resources and our rapidly evolving technology centers on two fundamental phenomena: (1) The way technology displaces labor (2) The way technology concentrates profits
- 2013/09/09 [L..T] How Green Is a Tesla, Really?
- 2013/09/06 [L..T] Has the NSA broken SSL? TLS? AES? "Indications suggest that SSL and other fundamental Internet security technologies have indeed been compromised by the NSA."
- 2013/08/26 [L..T] Desert tortoise faces threat from its own refuge "Federal funds are running out at the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center and officials plan to close the site and euthanize hundreds of the tortoises they've been caring for since the animals were added to the endangered species list in 1990."
- 2013/08/15 [L..T] Ender's Game Author Orson Scott Card Goes Off on Another Insane Rant «"Obama is, by character and preference, a dictator," Card wrote before comparing the President of the United States to Adolf Hitler. "Obama will claim we need a national police force in order to fight terrorism and crime. The Boston bombing is a useful start, especially when combined with random shootings by crazy people."» «And then he added that Obama will reassert his power through puppet dictators.»
- 2013/08/07 [L..T] Apple patents tech to let cops switch off iPhone video, camera and wi-fi "Police forces around the world have had the problem that when their officers get a bit carried away and start pepper spraying tied captives there is someone on hand filming the event on their mobile phones. [...] But they may not need to fear scrutiny much longer - Apple has patented a piece of technology which would allow government and police to block transmission of information, including video and photographs, whenever they like."
- 2013/07/26 [L..T] The Oxford Dictionary Is Changing The Definition Of 'Marriage' To Include Gay Couples "In light of gay marriage being legalized in the UK, the Oxford English Dictionary editors are changing the definition of marriage."
- 2013/07/17 [L..T] Hacking The World's Dictionaries To Change The Definition Of Marriage "A group of San Francisco activists are trying to change old dictionaries definitions of marriage, by replacing out of date entries wherever they find them."
- 2013/07/16 [L..T] With Citizen Buy-in, German Village Generates 5X Renewable Energy It Needs
- 2013/07/09 [L..T] Ender's Game author Orson Scott Card issues plea for tolerance of his intolerance of gays «just like the Stonewall rioters, Card is here to say he’s finally had enough of being hounded simply for his way of life that involves decrying others' way of life.» If this had happened circa 2020, he'd doubtless be decrying cancel culture and demanding his right of freeze peach as well.
- 2013/07/09 [L..T] United States v. Bundy
- 2013/06/13 [L..T] Rape of Iraqi Women by US Forces as Weapon of War: Photos and Data Emerge
- 2013/06/10 [L..T] How Does He Keep Getting A Platform? Bill Kristol's History Of Terrible Predictions And Bad Advice "Bill Kristol rightly finds the IRS's targeting to be exemplary of abuse, overreaching government. But the NSA? Not really a concern."
- 2013/05/26 [L..T] Abiotic Oil Is Killing the Peak Oil Hoax "It is looking like oil is far more plentiful than western governments and the mainstream media would like us to believe, and the reason oil is so plentiful is because it is produced deep in the earth by geological processes in addition to any biological processes. [..] Abiotic oil is explained pretty well by a recent article at Principia-Scientific entitled Fracturing the Fossil Fuel Fables. Another article I recommend is More Evidence for Abiotic Oil."
- 2013/05/20 [L..T] 'We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative "And then there came a day when you started writing about your own llamas. Unsurprisingly, you didn't choose to write about the soft, downy, non-cannibalistic ones you actually met, because you knew no one would find those 'realistic.'"
- 2013/05/15 [L..T] For Insurers, No Doubts on Climate Change
- 2013/05/08 [L..T] Orson Scott Card's long history of homophobia «in addition to being one of the most critically acclaimed writers of science fiction, Card, or OSC, as he's dubbed in sci-fi circles, is also one of the most openly bigoted. Card is the great-great-grandson of Mormon icon Brigham Young, and his politics are deeply linked to his lifelong Mormonism. Card has been openly railing against what he calls "the homosexual agenda" for decades.»
- 2013/04/24 [L..T] Jill Abramson and the wholly sexist narrative of the woman in power "The New York Times newsroom is unhappy because its editor is not very nice. Allegedly. This startling revelation comes from a piece posted on Politico yesterday that instantly lost the internet but gained fans at the NYT."
- 2013/04/18 [L..T] Hobby Lobby Raises Minimum Wage to $14 for Full-Time Employees "Arts and crafts giant Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. announced on Monday that effective immediately, the minimum wage for its full-time hourly employees at its stores and affiliate Hemisphere was increased to $14. The hourly wage for part-time employees was also increased to $9.50."
- 2013/04/15 [L..T] Eden Foods doubles down in birth control flap
- 2013/04/11 [L..T] How the Psychiatrist Who Co-Wrote the Manual on Sex Talks About Sex “ It has been 40 years since homosexuality was removed as a mental illness from the DSM. But given a clean slate, Blanchard said he would still classify homosexual sex as abnormal.”
- 2013/04/11 [L..T] Epidemic: Guns kill twice as many kids as cancer does
- 2013/04/08 [L..T] Newsflash: Pregnancy Is Hard But Anti-Choicers Refuse to Admit It
- 2013/04/07 [L..T] Wearing a Badge, and a Video Camera Even with only half of the 54 uniformed patrol officers wearing cameras at any given time, the department over all had an 88 percent decline in the number of complaints filed against officers, compared with the 12 months before the study, to 3 from 24.
- 2013/03/24 [L..T] Debunking Almost Every Republican Lie Against President Obama
- 2013/02/14 [L..T] Economists disagree on whether the minimum wage kills jobs. Why? "Except that the real world seems to be much murkier. Yes, a number of studies have found a link between a higher minimum wage and higher unemployment. But many others, such as this recent paper from U.C. Berkeley that exploited differences across state borders, have found no effect at all."
- 2013/02/14 [L..T] A 2011 Study Exploded One Of The Biggest Fears About Raising The Minimum Wage "This far from settles the fight over raising the minimum wage, but does address concerns that a rise in the minimum wage would lead to across the board job losses."
- 2013/02/08 [L..T] Amazon unpacked The online giant is creating thousands of UK jobs, so why are some employees less than happy?
- 2013/02/01 [L..T] Gun violence research: History of the federal funding freeze "For many, it is clear that any comprehensive plan to address gun violence in the United States must include further research into this problem. The longtime concern among the science community about the freeze on federal funds for gun violence research, which has now spanned nearly two decades, has seen a renewed wave of interest and advocacy. This article reviews the history of the freeze and of responses to it by the American Psychological Association (APA) and other organizations and individuals."
- 2013/01/11 [L..T] The Hitler gun control lie "Gun rights activists who cite the dictator as a reason against gun control have their history dangerously wrong."
- 2013/01/02 [L..T] Hypocrisy? Hobby Lobby fights government mandate to give employees access to birth control coverage on religious grounds, yet makes millions on products primarily from China where 7 million abortions and forced contraceptive surgeries a year take place "...one company stands out in its perceived civil disobedience lawsuit fighting the government mandate to give employees access to birth control coverage. Citing violation of religious beliefs, the owners of Hobby Lobby, the David Green family, doesn't want to provide access to birth control they think will induce abortion, although according to Tulsa World they have covered other forms of birth control in the past."
- 2013/01/01 [L..T] Senate clear fiscal cliff measure The Senate has passed legislation to block the impact of across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts that make up the fiscal cliff.
- 2013/01/01 [L..T] Fiscal cliff: America goes to the brink, but millions already fell into poverty Whatever the outcome of the political haggling, Congress has failed the 50 million Americans below the bread line.
- 2012/12/29 [L..T] Chris Hedges Explains How Entire Regions Within the US Are Treated Like Exploited Colonies a recent interview conducted with Chris Hedges surrounding his latest book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.
- 2012/12/21 [L..T] The Evolution of the NRA's Defense of Guns "Over the past few decades, the National Rifle Association has opposed most major efforts to control guns. But the organization's rhetoric and tactics against federal gun-control regulation have evolved significantly since 1934, when the first major weapons regulation – the National Firearms Act – was enacted."
- 2012/12/11 [L..T] Explaining Socialism To A Republican “My friend seemed totally shocked when I said "All socialism isn't bad". She became very serious and replied "So you want to take money away from the rich and give to the poor?" I smiled and said "No, not at all. Why do you think socialism means taking money from the rich and giving to the poor?"”
- 2012/11/20 [L..T] Wealth Inequality in America “Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actual numbers. The reality is often not what we think it is.”
- 2012/11/20 [L..T] Problems and Strategies in Financing Voluntary Free Software Projects "It's easier for a successful volunteer Free Software project to get money than it is to decide how to spend it. While paying developers is easy, it can carry unintended negative consequences. This essay explores problems and benefits of paying developers in volunteer free and open source projects and surveys strategies that projects have used to successfully finance development while maintaining their volunteer nature."
- 2012/10/27 [L..T] [[2012/10/27/Majority of Americans racist|]] "The election of Barack Obama failed to usher in a post-racial US, with a new poll showing that 51 percent of Americans hold explicitly anti-black views. That figure is up from 48 percent in 2008, the year America elected its first black president."
- 2012/10/27 [L..T] [[2012/10/27/CNBC Exec's Children Murdered 1 Day After CNBC Reports Bankster Lawsuit|]] "Within hours the original page for the article was taken down, and CNBC senior vice president Kevin Krim received news that his children were killed under very suspicious circumstances."
- 2012/10/20 [L..T] Harris-Perry: "Disgusting" voter-suppression tactics still spreading Besides billboards in Ohio and Wisconsin threatening enormous fines and prison sentences for "voter fraud," Harris-Perry noted the appearance of a Spanish-language billboard spotted in Pennsylvania telling voters, "Si Quieres Votar Muéstrala," or, "If you want to vote, show it," a reference to the state voter identification law that was largely struck down in court earlier this month.
- 2012/10/19 [L..T] Third instance of voter registration dumping found in Virginia A third instance of fraudulent voter registration has been uncovered in the important swing state of Virginia, where a Republican consultant has been arrested and thousands of discarded voter registration forms were recovered from a dumpster earlier this week.
- 2012/09/13 [L..T] New questions about makers of anti-Muslim film as shadowy details emerge This appears to be the same AP article as 2012/09/12/California man confirms role in anti-Islam film.
- 2012/09/12 [L..T] Latest Updates on Rage Over Anti-Islam Film
- 2012/09/12 [L..T] 'This Does Not Represent Us': Moving Photos of Pro-American Rallies in Libya pictures of Libyans holding up signs apologizing to US for the death of US ambassador Chris Stevens
- 2012/09/12 [L..T] Craft Store Chain Sues For Right To Deny Their Employees Contraception Coverage Hobby Lobby, a large chain of craft stores owned by conservative evangelical Christians, filed a federal lawsuit against the contraception mandate today, claiming they should have the right to deny coverage for emergency contraception to over 13,000 employees across 40 states. Hobby Lobby's owners, the Green family, claim the Obamacare requirement to provide employer-based coverage for that contraceptive service violates their freedom of religion and speech...
- 2012/09/12 [L..T] California man confirms role in anti-Islam film Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, told The Associated Press in an interview outside Los Angeles that he was manager for the company that produced "Innocence of Muslims," which mocked Muslims and the prophet Muhammad and may have caused inflamed mobs that attacked U.S. missions in Egypt and Libya. He provided the first details about a shadowy production group behind the film.
- 2012/09/12 [L..T] YouTube Blocks Access to Controversial Video in Egypt and Libya In an unusual move, YouTube announced today that it was blocking access to a video showing clips from "The Innocence of Muslims"– an anti-Islamic film that depicts Prophet Mohammed as a philanderer who approves of child abuse – after the film sparked violent protests in Egypt and Libya.
- 2012/09/10 [L..T] Mitt Romney's epic incompetence I've been following politics for many years; I've written a book on presidential campaigns and I've delved quite a bit into the minutiae of the 2012 campaign. And I'm increasingly convinced that Mitt Romney is the worst national politician I've ever seen.
- 2012/09/09 [L..T] Enough Wind to Power Global Energy Demand: New Research Examines Limits, Climate Consequences "There is enough energy available in winds to meet all of the world's demand. Atmospheric turbines that convert steadier and faster high-altitude winds into energy could generate even more power than ground- and ocean-based units. New research from Carnegie's Ken Caldeira examines the limits of the amount of power that could be harvested from winds, as well as the effects high-altitude wind power could have on the climate as a whole."
- 2012/09/09 [L..T] Hobby Lobby v. Sebelius "This is a challenge to regulations issued under the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that would force religiously-motivated business owners like Plaintiffs to violate their faith under threat of millions of dollars in fines."
- 2012/08/19 [L..T] Racism by Political Party "It is undeniable that some Americans are racist but racists split about evenly across the parties. No party has a monopoly on racists."
- 2012/08/07 [L..T] Mandan City Commission gives Wal-Mart $403,000 tax break After two hours of hot debate, the Mandan City Commission on Tuesday gave the Wal-Mart Stores Inc., its first property tax break in the state, to build a supercenter in the city.
- 2012/08/04 [L..T] Edward Jones saga "Some of the firm's financial advisors refer to it as a cult -- they call it "Jonestown" -- and hundreds quit every year, because they "can't drink the green Kool Aid any longer.""
- 2012/07/30 [L..T] Data Tampering At USHCN/GISS "The measured USHCN daily temperature data shows a decline in US temperatures since the 1930s. But before they release it to the public, they put it thorough a series of adjustments which change it from a cooling trend to a warming trend."
- 2012/07/30 [L..T] The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic
- 2012/07/18 [L..T] Thanks, Elizabeth Warren! Capitol One to pay $210 million as result of CFPB action
- 2012/07/16 [L..T] Chick-fil-A's flippant response to years of LGBT controversy: 'Guilty as charged' Chick-fil-A COO Dan Cathy defends the company's anti-gay activities on Biblical grounds.
- 2012/07/15 [L..T] Deconstructing Conservative Myths About Socialism, Capitalism, and Who The "Job Creators" Are "Conservatives have taken to a new spin on truth, by refashioning definitions of words and terms in order to provoke new connotations. Socialism is now defined as a government take over, Capitalism is now defined as patriotic, and the wealthy are now defined as job creators. But simply redefining these words will not change their true meaning, it is only myth making."
- 2012/07/12 [L..T] Iceland Has Hired An Ex-Cop To Hunt Down The Bankers That Wrecked Its Economy
- 2012/06/19 [L..T] Grazing Fees: Overview and Issues "Charging fees for grazing private livestock on federal lands is a long-standing but contentious practice. Generally, livestock producers who use federal lands want to keep fees low, while conservation groups and others believe fees should be increased. The formula for determining the grazing fee for lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Forest Service (FS) uses a base value adjusted annually by the lease rates for grazing on private lands, beef cattle prices, and the cost of livestock production."
- 2012/06/01 [L..T] How marriage has changed over centuries "Whenever people talk about traditional marriage or traditional families, historians throw up their hands," said Steven Mintz, a history professor at Columbia University. "We say, 'When and where?'"
- 2012/05/03 [L..T] What you know depends on what you watch: Current events knowledge across popular news sources "The largest effect is that of Fox News: all else being equal, someone who watched only Fox News would be expected to answer just 1.04 domestic questions correctly – a figure which is significantly worse than if they had reported watching no media at all."
- 2012/04/19 [L..T] CEO pay is 380 times average worker's - AFL-CIO “Chief executives at some of the nation's largest companies earned an average of $12.9 million in total pay last year -- 380 times more than a typical American worker, according to the AFL-CIO. [..] Average CEO pay rose 14% compared to 2010, when they earned $11.4 million on average, according to the union group.”
- 2012/04/13 [L..T] 10 Big Companies That Pay No Taxes (and Their Favorite Politicians) "Between 2008 and 2011, 26 major American corporations paid no net federal income taxes despite bringing in billions in profits, according to a new report (PDF) from the nonprofit research group Citizens for Tax Justice."
- 2012/04/13 [L..T] 12 Ways To Use Saul Alinsky's Rules For Radicals Against Liberals All liberals are using rules set forth by Saul Alinsky; conservatives should use them too, because they work.
- 2012/03/09 [L..T] A Power Grid of Their Own: German Village Becomes Model for Renewable Energy "The tiny village of Feldheim, some 60 kilometers southwest of Berlin, was catapulted by chance to the forefront of the renewable energy movement. Now visitors from around the world are flocking to this otherwise unremarkable rural community to see if they can replicate its success."
- 2012/01/26 [L..T] Remake of Tezuka's Popular Story Turns Into Denial? "Did the Disney studio steal Kimba The White Lion and rework it as their "original story", The Lion King? They certainly give that impression with their corporate stance ("we never heard of Tezuka nor Kimba until after The Lion King was released"). And why would they have filed suit to try to prevent the showing of Tezuka Productions' 1997 Jungle Emperor Leo movie at the 1998 Toronto FantAsia Film Festival? (Jungle Emperor was the original title for Kimba The White Lion.) It seems quite simple; Kimba had been kept out of sight in North America for 20 years by that time. And once you can see the two together..."
- 2012/01/19 [L..T] Shock new revelations about Mother Teresa "In January, 2012, documents obtained by an investigative journalist working at SF Weekly, a successful alternative weekly newspaper in San Francisco, California, revealed that an Albanian nun, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, better known to the world today as Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997), supported and praised a Catholic priest knowing that he was an accused serial abuser of young boys in his care."
- 2011/12/02 [L..T] [[2011/12/02/How Israeli Occupation Forces, Bahraini Monarchy Guards Trained U.S. Police|]]
- 2011/12/01 [L..T] Do Europe's Minimum Income Schemes Provide Adequate Shelter against the Economic Crisis and How, If at All, Have Governments Responded? "The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changes that have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens with adequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on data for 24 European Union countries, this paper asks whether EU governments implemented additional measures during the first phase of the crisis to improve safety nets."
- 2011/11/08 [L..T] Charlie Hebdo front cover depicts Muslim man kissing cartoonist "French satirical magazine does not hold back in latest issue despite firebomb attack after printing Muhammad cartoon"
- 2011/10/03 [L..T] How Unequal We Are: The Top 5 Facts You Should Know About The Wealthiest One Percent Of Americans “It may shock you exactly how wealthy this top 1 percent of Americans is. ThinkProgress has assembled five facts about this class of super-rich Americans...”
- 2011/09/14 [L..T] Abiotic Oil a Theory Worth Exploring "...their advocacy of "abiotic theory" has many dismissing them as heretics, frauds, or idealists. They hold that oil can be derived from hydrocarbons that existed eons ago in massive pools deep within the earth's core. That source of hydrocarbons seeps up through the earth's layers and slowly replenishes oil sources. In other words, it turns the fossil-fuel paradigm upside down."
- 2011/09/04 [L..T] Voters' zero-sum faceoff with wealthy campaign donors "While most citizens gripe about politicians or "the system" for operating beyond their influence--do any voters understand the "how" and "why" when elite interests wield far greater force?"
- 2011/08/21 [L..T] German Village Produces 321% More Energy Than It Needs! "Not only has [ Germany ] announced plans to shut down all of its nuclear power plants and started the construction of 2,800 miles of transmission lines for its new renewable energy initiative, but now the village of Wildpoldsried is producing 321% more energy than it needs! The small agricultural village in the state of Bavaria is generating an impressive $5.7 million in annual revenue from renewable energy."
- 2011/08/18 [L..T] Pseudonymous blogging at Science Blogs is over. lead paragraph::I have just been informed that ScienceBlogs will no longer be hosting anonymous or pseudonymous bloggers. In case you are interested, despite extensive communication from many of us as to why we blog under pseudonyms, I have not been given any rationale or reason for this move. Particularly, no rationale or reason that responds to the many valid points raised by the pseudonymous folks.
- 2011/08/12 [L..T] 8 grams of thorium could replace gasoline in cars
- 2011/07/28 [L..T] headline::'No porn or prostitution': Islamic extremists set up Sharia law controlled zones in British cities lead paragraph::Islamic extremists have launched a poster campaign across the UK proclaiming areas where Sharia law enforcement zones have been set up.
- 2011/07/28 [L..T] About "Google Minus." How does this affect me? As a member of a plural system, I would technically not be allowed to sign up as "Noël Dawkins," even though I prefer to use my own name online, rather than presenting as the "front identity." I would probably not be banned, as my name looks like a name, rather than an actual pseudonym, but it would technically be against their strict community guidelines. I suppose that I could simply sign up under the front identity (disclosure: we have already done so), but there is a difference between social networking under that guise, and social networking as myself.
- 2011/07/27 [L..T] headline::Mom granted new trial in death of son struck by driver lead paragraph:: A Georgia woman convicted on misdemeanor charges in the death of her son after he darted out into traffic will receive a new trial, a judge ruled.
- 2011/07/27 [L..T] Why it Matters: Google+ and Diversity Just a few days before Google+'s doors officially open on July 31, Google's latest communications from Vic (via Robert) and Bradley on the raft of account suspensions and “common names” policy seem unlikely to put the “identity crisis” to rest. It's certainly a positive sign that they're engaging, and process changes like giving people with names Google doesn't like a week to change their account name before suspending them are certainly improvements. That said, the impression they're giving is that they're going to try to hold the line with the current policy even knowing that it targets transgender people, human rights activists, people at risk for stalking and harrassment domestic violence survivors, HIV/AIDS victims and caregivers, people with names that sound weird to Americans (or for that matter people in Hong Kong who would rather go by their English names)..."
- 2011/07/26 [L..T] headline::Mom spared jail time after driver hits, kills boy lead paragraph:: A Georgia woman who was convicted on misdemeanor charges in the death of her son who darted out into traffic will not spend time in jail, a judge ruled Tuesday.
- 2011/07/26 [L..T] Fraudsters Already Exploiting Google+ It was inevitable. With the creation of Google+, a new social network already boasting over 20 million users, the scammers were sure to follow. Here's a note a probable fraudster sent to reader Geoff through his Google+ profile, informing him that someone died in Africa and he needs to be contacted about a "business transaction" of "magnitude."
- 2011/07/25 [L..T] Taxing The Poor: The Only Tax Increase Republicans Support While they fight the expiration of the budget-busting Bush tax cuts, Republicans have continually cited a report that shows that 51 percent of Americans don't pay income taxes, even admitting that middle- and lower-class Americans need to shoulder a larger burden in deficit reduction efforts.
- 2011/07/25 [L..T] Google's gormless 'no pseudonym' policy lead paragraph::A week ago, I was stunned to discover that my entire Google account -- gmail, reader, blogger, Google documents, YouTube, Google Plus (G+), etc. -- was suddenly suspended because their system "perceived a violation."
- 2011/07/25 [L..T] Google+ Real Names Policy Is About Brands, Not People Google may have inadvertently swept up some users and handles that were legitimate or simply too innocuous to cause any brand any kind of harm, but I think the intention is clear: to protect brands and businesses from everyday Google service users who might infringe upon their trademarks and brand identities.
- 2011/07/25 [L..T] Let them eat bus transfers
- 2011/07/24 [L..T] JP Morgan Tells Investors Why Middle Class Americans Are Screwed
- 2011/07/24 [L..T] The Secret History of Guns "The Ku Klux Klan, Ronald Reagan, and, for most of its history, the NRA all worked to control guns. The Founding Fathers? They required gun ownership – and regulated it. And no group has more fiercely advocated the right to bear loaded weapons in public than the Black Panthers – the true pioneers of the modern pro-gun movement. In the battle over gun rights in America, both sides have distorted history and the law, and there's no resolution in sight."
- 2011/07/23 [L..T] headline::Anders Behring Breivik: profile of a mass murderer
- 2011/07/23 [L..T] Something rotten in the state of Norway The media initially attributed the event -- with some evidence -- to Muslim extremists, then rapidly backed off from that conclusion when the "blond Nordic-looking" suspect was identified. This is one of several parallels with the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, and there are reasons to believe that there was a Muslim-extremist connection in that event as well.
- 2011/07/23 [L..T] headline::Norway, Islam and the threat of the West Interestingly, this criminal is described by one unnamed Norwegian official as a "madman". He may well be, but this is one way that the motivations for heinous crimes can be airbrushed out of the story before they have the chance to take hold in the popular imagination.
- 2011/07/23 [L..T] Right-Wing Pundits Jumped To Blame Muslims And "Jihadists" For Norway Attacks quote::...some pundits, mostly right-wing neoconservatives, proclaimed that this bore all the hallmarks of Islamic terrorism, even going so far as to draw policy prescriptions. At the Washington Post, normally a well-respected news outlet, Jennifer Rubin quoted the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies' Thomas Joscelyn and AEI scholar Gary Schmitt to say that the attacks were the result of Islamic terrorism. She then concluded the "jihadist" attack on Oslo means the U.S. shouldn't cut military spending...
- 2011/07/22 [L..T] Suspect In Custody For Norwegian Terror Attacks Allegedly An Anti-Islam Right-Wing Extremist
- 2011/07/22 [L..T] I've been suspended from Google+ Skud summarizes the circumstances of her suspension from Google+, including her prior employment at Google and arguments in favor of pseudonymity.
- 2011/07/22 [L..T] Google Deletes Last 7 Years Of User's Digital Life, Shrugs Something happened to Dylan's Google account, and it's been disabled. He doesn't know what happened to the account, and no one at Google with the power to help him is interested in acknowledging the problem or letting him back in to the cloud-based services where all of his correspondence and much of the digital trail from the last few years of his life is stored.
- 2011/07/21 [L..T] Woman who lost child to hit and run driver convicted of vehicular homicide Forum thread discussing the traffic death of Raquel Nelson's 4-year-old child, and similar car-centric situations around the US.
- 2011/07/21 [L..T] The Fed Audit The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loans to bail out American and foreign banks and businesses during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
- 2011/07/21 [L..T] 21st-Century Slaves: How Corporations Exploit Prison Labor In the eyes of the corporation, inmate labor is a brilliant strategy in the eternal quest to maximize profit.
- 2011/07/20 [L..T] When design kills: The criminalization of walking Raquel Nelson, an Atlanta-area mother, was recently convicted of vehicular homicide because her 4-year-old son was struck by a car and killed while she was crossing a busy street at an intersection with no crosswalk.
- 2011/07/20 [L..T] headline::Syrian Tribal Leader Threatens To Barbecue U.S. Ambassador Like Lamb And 'Eat' Him 'With Or Without Salt' quote::Ahmad Al-Shlash, a tribal leader in Syria, gave an interview to the Arabic language channel Al-Dunya TV in which he, along with his "cousins," reportedly called for the U.S. Ambassador to Syria, Robert Stephen Ford, to be cooked and eaten like "American mutton," either "with salt or without salt."
- 2011/07/18 [L..T] News Corp shares fall as pressure grows Shares in News Corporation have fallen 4.3% in New York amid mounting pressure as the phone-hacking scandal develops.
- 2011/07/18 [L..T] headline::Hacking scandal earns News Corp. credit warning lead paragraph::Standard & Poor's on Monday placed News Corp.'s credit rating on a negative watch citing increased business and reputation risks from investigations into the widening phone hacking scandal in Britain.
- 2011/07/18 [L..T] headline::News of the World phone-hacking whistleblower found dead lead paragraph::Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbusiness reporter who was the first named journalist to allege that Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead.
- 2011/07/18 [L..T] Prosecuting the victim, absolving the perpetrators
- 2011/07/18 [L..T] Not Taking Other People's Money “The problem with socialists, according to Margaret Thatcher, is that "they always run out of other people's money." We haven't hit that point just yet, but we have hit our nation's legal credit limit of $14.3 trillion. To avoid defaulting on our loans, policymakers must raise that limit.” ...so that we can continue borrowing other people's money.
- 2011/07/18 [L..T] Finland's Internet service provider refuses to block The Pirate Bay In May, copyright holders sued Internet service provider Elisa, one of Finland's largest, to get the provider to block access to torrent site The Pirate Bay due to charges of media piracy. Finnish public service media company YLE reports that Elisa refuses to comply with such claims, however, citing the technical difficulty of compliance.
- 2011/07/18 [L..T] Cousin admits role in NYC subway terror plot lead paragraph::A cousin of admitted terrorist Najibullah Zazi publicly revealed for the first time Monday that he was in on Zazi's chilling 2009 plot to attack New York City subways with suicide bombers.
- 2011/07/17 [L..T] Woman boards plane with 3-inch knife TWICE but TSA plays it down because explosives are 'biggest threat' An Indianapolis woman was shocked to discover she had been able to board a plane with a three-inch knife in her carry-on bag not once, but twice.
- 2011/07/17 [L..T] Pilot drives 6,000 mi to protest TSA
- 2011/07/17 [L..T] "Why does she stay with that jerk?" 19 common reasons that people stay with abusers
- 2011/07/16 [L..T] headline::Will you be a "known traveller"? lead paragraph::Earlier this month, the US Travel Association released the results of a survey that found that 45 percent of respondents would pay a fee of "up to" $150 for a background check and verification program that would allow them to speed through airport security. On Friday, America's Transportation Security Administration announced that this Fall, it will move ahead with a plan to test just such a program.
- 2011/07/16 [L..T] The Google+ Controversy & Virtual Worlds – A Question Of Identity excerpt::The avalanche of news last weekend was triggered by the story that Opensource Obscure, a Second Life resident from Italy, had his profile suspended by Google+ because his name "violated community standards." This was followed by reports of the accounts of Second Life users being culled, much in the same fashion as had happened at Facebook weeks ago.
- 2011/07/15 [L..T] GOP Rep. Steve King Would Reject Debt Ceiling Deal With $3 Trillion In Cuts And Just $8 In Revenue Increases
- 2011/07/15 [L..T] The Political Lessons Of "Harry Potter" eight moral/political lessons taught by the Harry Potter series
- 2011/07/15 [L..T] headline::A research revolution to save the planet
- 2011/07/15 [L..T] headline::Mother faces jail for killing son, four, after they crossed road in the wrong place - and he was struck by hit-and-run driver quote::Raquel Nelson, 30, could now spend more time in jail than the driver because she didn't use a crosswalk when she walked her three children over a busy street from a bus stop to their apartment in Marietta, Georgia.
- 2011/07/15 [L..T] Default Would Dim American Power A sustained default could undercut American power in four ways. The first and perhaps most certain would be to force cuts in defense spending. Second, a default would make it harder for Washington to negotiate agreements or build alliances with other countries. Third, a debt default would erode American credibility. Finally, a default could help China, Russia and other major buyers of U.S. debt accomplish something they have been trying to do for years: find an alternative investment to U.S. Treasurys.
- 2011/07/15 [L..T] ALEC Exposed: State Legislative Bills Drafted by Secretive Corporate-Lawmaker Coalition This week the Center for Media and Democracy released 800 model bills, legislation that is straight out of the corporate playbook and drafted by the American Legislative Exchange Council.
- 2011/07/14 [L..T] headline::Pedestrian convicted of vehicular homicide in own child's death lead paragraph::A Marietta mother may serve more time than the driver who hit and killed her 4-year-old son.
- 2011/07/14 [L..T] Sen. John McCain Renews Push for Senate Committee to Halt WikiLeaks' Undermining of America
- 2011/07/14 [L..T] headline::Barack Obama storms out of meeting
- 2011/07/14 [L..T] What Everyone Is Missing in the Debt Ceiling Debate
- 2011/07/14 [L..T] Computers Learn To Play Civilization By Reading Instruction Manual lead paragraph::Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab have taught a computer how to play strategy game Civilization by providing it with the game's instruction manual.
- 2011/07/14 [L..T] Getting to Crazy The insanity of the GOP, which many people are finally just noticing, has been building gradually for a long time.
- 2011/07/13 [L..T] headline::Cantor Says Obama Stormed Out Of Debt Ceiling Meeting, As All Progress In Talks "Erased" House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told reporters that President Obama walked out "angrily" from a meeting on the debt ceiling; Democratic aides say that Cantor was rude and Obama merely ended the meeting for the day.
- 2011/07/13 [L..T] headline::Social Media: a double-edged sword in Syria
- 2011/07/13 [L..T] 5 Disastrous Consequences Of A Debt Ceiling Meltdown 1. Fed gov will have to cut back payments for services. 2. ...which will cause "real people" to be hurt. 3. ...which will hurt the economy. 4. ...and raise interest rates significantly. 5. It will actually increase the deficit more than would raising the debt ceiling in a timely manner -- assuming the ceiling is eventually lifted.
- 2011/07/13 [L..T] Kenya opens its books in revolutionary transparency drive
- 2011/07/13 [L..T] headline::Pushing for faster Internet connection with fiber
- 2011/07/13 [L..T] What Happened to the $2.6 Trillion Social Security Trust Fund? "I cannot guarantee that those checks [he included veterans and the disabled, in addition to Social Security] go out on August 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it." "...either Obama and Geithner are lying to us now, or they and all defenders of the Social Security status quo have been lying to us for decades. It must be one or the other."
- 2011/07/12 [L..T] Friends in Revolution
- 2011/07/12 [L..T] headline::Overthrowing Apple: The Web Leads To Freedom
- 2011/07/12 [L..T] How committed are ISPs to graduated response?
- 2011/07/12 [L..T] headline::Effort in Senate to Close Offshore Tax Havens
- 2011/07/12 [L..T] headline::Rep. Ron Paul Slams Debt Ceiling with Grassroots Campaign
- 2011/07/12 [L..T] headline::Bad law, good lawsuit It's not comfortable to side against the state of North Carolina in the lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina. Rooting against the state means hoping that we, as taxpayers who pay for the state's legal defense, lose money on litigation.
- 2011/07/11 [L..T] Phone hacking scandal could spell disaster for press freedom
- 2011/07/11 [L..T] Google Confirms: Non-Real Name Google Profiles Risk Suspension (I.E., Google Still Doesn't Get Social)
- 2011/07/10 [L..T] headline::EGYPT: Activists back in Tahrir Square to salvage revolution
- 2011/07/10 [L..T] headline::Murdoch: the network defeats the hierarchy
- 2011/07/09 [L..T] Bullies and cowards who have killed a newspaper – for nothing
- 2011/07/08 [L..T] Children's Personalities Linked to Their Chemical Response to Stress This high-and-low-cortisol reactivity provides different developmental advantages and disadvantages, the authors write. Heightened cortisol levels characteristic of the doves were related to lower attention problems but also put them at risk for developing anxiety and depression over time. By contrast, the lower cortisol levels for hawks in aggressive families were associated with lower anxiety problems; however, at the same time, these children were more prone to risky behavior, including attention and hyperactivity problems.
- 2011/07/08 [L..T] Michigan Woman Faces 93 Days in Jail for Planting a Vegetable Garden Julie Bass of Oak Park, Michigan -- a mother of 6, law-abiding citizen, and gardener -- is facing 93 days in jail after being charged with a misdemeanor for planting a vegetable garden in the front yard.
- 2011/07/08 [L..T] Esther Dyson On The Future Of Space Travel: We Are Only At “The End Of The Beginning”
- 2011/07/08 [L..T] Anti-pseudonym bingo “People testing the Google+ social network are discussing increasing evidence that, terms of service requirement or not, Google+ wants people to use their legal names much as Facebook does. Skud shares a heads-up from a user banned for using his initials. Then, for example, see discussion around it on Mark Cuban's stream, Skud's stream and Sarah Stokely's blog.” The post includes a bingo card to keep score of anti-nym arguments.
- 2011/07/07 [L..T] headline::AntiSec: Anonymous hackers show Orlando Police taking food from hungry children
- 2011/07/07 [L..T] The educational value of creative disobedience
- 2011/07/05 [L..T] Alex and Google, follow-up
- 2011/07/05 [L..T] headline::What Does it Mean to be a Woman Hackerspace Member? “I wasn't sure what the answer to that question might be, so I interviewed seven female hackerspace members ... to get their take on what it's like.”
- 2011/07/03 [L..T] Shame on you, Google
- 2011/07/03 [L..T] Google made my son cry
- 2011/07/02 [L..T] Dr. Cynthia Boaz: 14 propaganda techniques Fox "News" uses to brainwash Americans "Panic mongering, character assassination, and scapegoating are just three of the techniques Fox News relies on to drive its right-wing agenda forward."
- 2011/06/24 [L..T] The Debt Ceiling: Why Obama Should Just Ignore It The argument goes like this: Because Congress already appropriated the funds in question, it is the executive branch's duty to enact those appropriations. The debt ceiling, then, is legislative "double-counting," because the executive branch is obligated to spend the money Congress appropriates, without having to go back and ask again for permission.
- 2011/06/19 [L..T] Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong
- 2011/06/11 [L..T] Other People's Money Fox's John Stossel criticizes politicians for being careless with "other people's money". To his credit, the $700 billion military budget is the second item he mentions ("growing entitlements" are, of course, first), but then he immediately proceeds to ridicule a series of absolutely trivial expenditures, the largest of which is 0.0002% of the $700B originally mentioned and most of which are probably quite worthwhile investments of public money (including the bicycle helmets, which probably save money overall).
- 2011/06/01 [L..T] Overworked America: 12 Charts That Will Make Your Blood Boil "Why "efficiency" and "productivity" really mean more profits for corporations and less sanity for you."
- 2011/05/27 [L..T] Water Use May Decide Future of Centralized Solar Power "Nuclear and coal may be big offenders, but wet-cooled concentrating solar power uses even more water per MWh of electricity generated. Dry-cooled CSP cuts water consumption significantly, but it's still far more than solar power from photovoltaics (or wind power)."
- 2011/05/21 [L..T] Lab personnel: Technically gifted an article mainly about the lab technician job market which happens to use James Damore as an example, long before he became notorious
- 2011/05/13 [L..T] Court denies right to resist illegal cop entry into home
- 2011/05/13 [L..T] Pay Enough or Don't Pay at All
- 2011/05/04 [L..T] headline::Our National Debt 'Shall Not Be Questioned,' the Constitution Says For the Obama administration to adopt the broad reading of Section Four would be bold (and I hasten to say I don't expect them to do it); but it would hardly be unusual in the recent discourse of presidential power--especially the Republican party's theory of the presidency.
- 2011/05/03 [L..T] Yes, you should join Anonymous “despite [Anonymous's] somewhat ironic transparency, there remain a few points of misunderstanding that we encounter when it comes time to recruit [...] I've composed the following FAQ by which to address those myths along with common questions and concerns that we often encounter.”
- 2011/04/29 [L..T] The Debt Limit Option President Obama Can Use
- 2011/04/26 [L..T] Real-Life Superheroes Offer Sex Workers Protection From the Long Island Serial Killer “Real life superhero vigilantes in New York – the New York Initiative – have decided to step in and have sworn to do everything they can to protect sex workers from the Long Island Serial Killer. They are offering brute-force, no questions asked protection – because they believe police are inadequate...”
- 2011/04/16 [L..T] To all Ladies: Free Protection and Safety System, (Long Island Killer) - m4w - 29 (NYC) This is the New York Initiative's Craig's List ad offering assistance to New York City sex workers in defending themselves from the Long Island Serial Killer.
- 2011/03/01 [L..T] It's the Inequality, Stupid “Eleven charts that explain what’s wrong with America.”
- 2011/02/22 [L..T] Long-Term Follow-Up of Transsexual Persons Undergoing Sex Reassignment Surgery: Cohort Study in Sweden Conclusions: “Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.”
- 2011/02/03 [L..T] Building a Better America – One Wealth Quintile at a Time “First, respondents dramatically underestimated the current level of wealth inequality. Second, respondents constructed ideal wealth distributions that were far more equitable than even their erroneously low estimates of the actual distribution. Most important from a policy perspective, we observed a surprising level of consensus: All demographic groups – even those not usually associated with wealth redistribution such as Republicans and the wealthy – desired a more equal distribution of wealth than the status quo.”
- 2011/01/19 [L..T] How many ways has K&L Gates touched you today? “{K&L Gates's} high-stakes cases are well documented, and so is its slick, and often aggressive, brand of lawyering. To win, the attorneys have used clever legal tactics to steamroll opponents, impugned the ethics of some government officials and singed relationships with allies.”
- 2011/01/19 [L..T] Fuller Memorial Presbyterian / Durham Rescue Mission “Plans submitted to the City / County Planning department with the rezoning demonstrated several worrisome elements to neighbors. The scale had grown considerably from the single multipurpose building discussed in previous years; it now stretched over portions of five city blocks, involved the demolition of 9 houses in historic district, and contemplated the closing of two streets, creating a fenced/gated facility stretching over three blocks.”
- 2011/01/11 [L..T] 20 Deadliest Gun States "You're five times more likely to die from a gun in Arizona than Hawaii. In the wake of the Giffords massacre, The Daily Beast ranks which states have the worst record of gun fatalities."
- 2011/01/05 [L..T] Doctor faked data linking autism to vaccines, British Medical Journal says “The British Medical Journal on Wednesday accused [disgraced British doctor Andrew Wakefield of committing an "elaborate fraud" by faking data in his studies linking vaccines with autism.”
- 2010/12/09 [L..T] Voters Say Election Full of Misleading and False Information Those who watched Fox News almost daily were significantly more likely than those who never watched it to believe that a number of false statements relevant to the election were, in fact, true.
- 2010/10/21 [L..T] Hobby Lobby's religious real estate hobby "But real estate -- that's the fun part. By the time the Greens closed on the Northfield campus late last year, the previous owners had grown weary of spending millions on annual upkeep and the price had come way down. They got the core of the campus -- 48 buildings and 217 acres, without the surrounding woodlands -- for $100,000."
- 2010/09/30 [L..T] Wealth Inequality “[...] Mike Norton and I recently conducted a study in which we asked Americans to first guess at the distribution of wealth in the United States, and then we asked them to perform the thought experiment and lay out what they think would be the ideal distribution of wealth if they were to enter society and be placed randomly in a class.”
- 2010/09/09 [L..T] Why the Rich Need the Poor