The DC establishment press is busily praising Paul Ryan as bold and brave, as well as continuing their hackish "Paul Ryan is one of the reasonable, serious Republicans." Not only was Very Serious...
Flashback: Paul Ryan is Very Serious
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Author - Bob Cesca
Secession and Non-Slaveowners
When debating the reasons for secession in the South, many Lost Cause myth defenders often reference the large number of southerners who never owned slaves -- so how, they ask, could these poor...
Bad News for Paul Ryan's Hackery
The CBO has evaluated the Ryan plan. In addition to acknowledging that seniors, disabled and elderly people would be hit with much higher out-of-pocket health care costs, the CBO finds that by the...
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Living Colour - "Open Letter To A Landlord"
Paul Ryan Wants to Bankrupt Old People
A reader and former health insurance executive examined Paul Ryan's ridiculous Medicare privatization plan (see also this) and came up with the following analysis: A Medicare supplement such as BC/BS...
Contrasting 2012 Videos
Here's the president's launch video. It seems like a slow start and it doesn't necessarily psych me up for a long, harrowing campaign process. Then again, I don't think this was produced for people...
Fukushima, USA
Brian Till wrote a chilling piece in The Atlantic about the deregulation of the American nuclear power industry. This jumped out: According to John Grobe, the Associate Director for Engineering and...
Quote of the Day
"In short, this is quite possibly the stupidest constitutional amendment I think I have ever seen. It looks like it was drafted by a couple of interns on the back of a napkin. Every senator...
The Worst Idea in Washington
Last week, the Senate Republicans revived the idea of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. And their version of the amendment is, as Ezra Klein is calling it, "The Worst Idea in...
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Best Coast - "When I'm With You"(via Chez)
April Four
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Programming Note
I will be traveling beginning Wednesday night through next Tuesday, but I'm going to try to keep up posting here whenever I can. Meanwhile, I'm sure JM Ashby (and perhaps Elvis and Weber) will keep...
George Will Thinks Trains are Socialist
Krugman, in a brilliant post, quotes Will's views on trains: ...the real reason for progressives’ passion for trains is their goal of diminishing Americans’ individualism in order to make them more...
There's Still a Major Crisis in Japan, Cont…
Radioactive water is gushing into the ocean. Sounds like a radioactive Deepwater Horizon. Experts estimate that about 7 tons an hour of radioactive water is escaping the pit. Safety officials have...
Four More Years! Four More Years!
President Obama is expected to announce his campaign for re-election today. And, by the way, none of the self-proclaimed "bold, decisive, non-dithering" Republican frontrunners have declared anything...
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Yes - "Siberian Khatru" Live at Montreux
Quote of the Day
"Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery...
Transocean Executives Get Safety Bonuses
The audacity: SAN FRANCISCO — Transocean Ltd. gave its top executives bonuses for achieving the "best year in safety performance in our company's history" – despite the explosion of its oil rig that...
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Neko Case - "Hold On, Hold On"
This is Why Americans Are So Pissed Off
In 2010, salaries increased for both workers and CEOs. Good news, right? Not when you look at the disparity between how much salaries increased: At a time most employees can barely remember their...