Not that it’ll do much good in the long run, but at least people are realising what a bunch of crooks these big corporations really are…Starbucks I imagine will quickly feel the pinch after calls for boycotts. There certainly isn’t much sympathy for any of them. And we have just heard that just as they [...]
Devil’s advocacy time. There’s no shortage of punditry from the usual suspects salivating that Romney’s pick of Ryan increases Obama’s chances of reelection. Because Rand! Medicare! Social Security! etc! etc!… Perhaps. We shall see. But then again perhaps they’re underestimating just how effective Ryan’s style can be, and how it just might give the Obama [...]
Rachel Maddow deconstructs the decades old pattern of Mitt Romney’s dance over his tax returns. I’m not a big fan of Maddow’s style — I find it grating — but that’s irrelevant. What is not irrelevant is that this is thorough and analytical journalism. It tells a story and gives complete historical context for this [...]
…but it sure can buy me twitter followers. Why didn’t I think of this? Splendid little story today from Charles Johnson over at LittleGreenFootballs about the sudden and dramatic rise in the number of “followers” for Mitt Romney’s twitter account; Today we learn that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is apparently buying Twitter followers to [...]
“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see….” “You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?” “No,” said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, “nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, [...]
OK, back to all the efforts now under way to combat “voter fraud” just for a minute. We’ve said before that the frequency of actual voter fraud —at least of the kind these measures are purportedly intended to prevent — is so small as to be statistically insignificant, and that remains true. From Mother Jones; [...]
While the headlines in the MSM are fixated on SCOTUS, and describing in exquisite detail avalanches of things that are not yet even happening at Federal level, the work of solidifying the economic and social coup among US institutions at more local levels continues apace, and with precious little coverage at all. Well, not quite. [...]
One of Barack Obama’s college professors, one Roberto Unger, has made a smallish splash in the news recently by declaring his conviction that Obama’s defeat in November is essential. His reasoning is nothing like that of the GOP mouthpieces, if the word “reasoning” is applicable in a context like that, indeed it’s quite the reverse. [...]
Still busy with the tail end of brush clearing around here. The dry conditions have impelled many folks hereabouts to doing much the same thing, and I noticed yesterday the Highway Department (or some state agency) has put a number of those big flashing road signs at strategic points along the highway declaring “High Fire [...]
This is copied from a comment on the Guardian which is talking about making the elderly share the burden of cuts. So far it’s received over 1,000 agrees. Here’s excerpt from an article from the British Medical Journal showing the tactics of this agenda. Unfortunately it’s a pay site, so I couldn’t read more. So [...]