We’ve been following the bizarre political career of Twitter troll and paleoconservative tea party congressman Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) for some time now, and ever since declaring his...
More bad news for that “The Day We Yelled About Surveillance” protest or whatever it was called. The NYT: Instead, the protest on Tuesday barely registered. Wikipedia did not participate...
I’m kidding with the headline, of course. It’s not failing at all. More proof: Obamacare had its second-best enrollment month in January, adding more than 1 million people to its rolls...
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Occupy Wall Street was a failure because its millennial leaderless co-leadership refused to employ the basic and well-known template for successful activism. The main problem was its lack of a...
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Glenn Greenwald’s new website, The Intercept, launched early Monday. In case you’re just joining us, the site is part of Pierre Omidyar’s First Look Media, a $250 million investment...
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The Copenhagen Zoo for this awfulness: A Danish zoo shot and killed a “surplus” young giraffe and fed it to lions, despite an online petition with thousands of signatures protesting the...
After last week’s hilarious GOP disinformation campaign about the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) report on the economic impact of the Affordable Care Act, the Republicans have...
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This week’s questions. Answers here. 1) I watched the Bill Nye/Ken Ham evolution vs. creation debate and here’s the problem: I feel like Ham won. Not that he presented any facts at all...
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This week marks two new low points in journalism. As we’ve reported over the last couple of days, they are, 1) Glenn Greenwald’s effort to conflate malicious hackers with political...
He’s on the lamb to escape from the DRONES! Former wrestler and Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura says he has gone “off the grid” in Mexico to avoid drones knowing where he is. Ventura...
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I’d like to preface by saying I admire Bill Nye. He’s one of those rare personalities who inspires us to learn more about the world and his contributions to education are indispensable...
Red Hot Chili Peppers – “The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie” Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading →...
Next week, The Guardian is publishing a book titled The Snowden Files: The Inside Story Of The World’s Most Wanted Man, by Luke Harding. The book tells the story of how The Guardian acquired...
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