Author - Bob Cesca

Internet

Bad News for Net Neutrality

Aw crap. A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing...

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The Media

That's All for Shuster

David Shuster has been indefinitely suspended from MSNBC for shooting a pilot for CNN. While, I really like Shuster (I especially enjoy doing my impression of his hyper-articulated anchor voice) it's...

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Food

Super Bugs Courtesy of Monsanto

Pink bullworms win the contest. They're officially resistant to Monsanto's pest-killing genetically modified cotton known as "Bt." So... [Monsanto is] now advising farmers to buy a newer Bt variety...

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Iraq

Decades of Blowback

Whether or not history defines Iraq as a "victory," there's one thing we can count on: decades of blowback and anti-American resentment because of incidents like this one: WARNING -- This is very...

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Sarah Palin

The Palin Paradox

Sarah Palin's Fox News ratings are falling apart. More proof that conservatives only really like the idea of Sarah Palin more than the actual Sarah Palin. Or as Jed Lewison writes: The sharp viewer...

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Guns

Stay Classy, Gun Show People

My wife and I drove down to Gettysburg yesterday and, along the way, we spotted the following billboard. I didn't have the foresight to take a picture of my own, but fortunately someone else did:...

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Jobs

Go Republican Obstruction!

Ryan Grim reports: Thanks to congressional inaction, more than 200,000 laid-off workers could lose access to unemployment benefits this week, and no flood insurance policies will be renewed or issued...

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Cycling

Cycling with Parkinson's

This is truly amazing. Dr. Bastiaan R. Bloem of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center in the Netherlands thought he had seen it all in his years of caring for patients with Parkinson’s...

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Food

Monsanto's Weight Loss Soy Bean

Scientists funded by Monsanto are developing a modified soy bean that will make you lose weight. I can't imagine anything going wrong with this: "The peptides fight inflammation by blocking key...

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Rush Limbaugh

The Will of the People

Limbaugh via Jed Lewison: Never in my life have I seen a regime like this, governing against the will of the people, purposely. I have never seen the media so supportive of a regime amassing so much...

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Healthcare

That Didn't Take Long

Tell your relatives this weekend: Days after President Obama signed the $938 billion bill into law, a cable television advertisement exhorted viewers to call an 800-number so they wouldn't miss a...

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