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You just have to wonder at some of the insanity that takes place in this world.
2014-12-13 22:35
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2014-10-25 20:33
I found this story through the Huffington Post, with this story also showing up on the Silicon Valley Business Journal, and Yahoo News. Another source story appears to be the San Jose… Read More
2014-09-28 23:23
This is from Claire Cain Miller at the New York Times:
Near the top of the list of tiresome tasks that the Internet has yet to solve is this one: trekking to the post office.
Enter a S… Read More
2014-09-28 18:13
I've seen this story making its rounds through The New York Times, Kevin Drum, Vox, and Daily Kos. The source story is through Vox, where Bard College economist Pavlina R. Tcherneva created… Read More
2014-09-28 04:24
I found this Talking Points Memo story through Kevin Drum, and even I can't believe it. From Talking Points Memo:
Incumbent Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), who is facing an unexpectedly
f… Read More
2014-09-20 21:37
Last week, Home Depot confirmed that its payment security systems had been hacked, impacting all of Home Depots 2,200 stores in the United States, and possibly Canada. The Home Depot c… Read More
2014-09-08 13:32
I found this Reason Magazine story through the Washington Monthly, with the final source coming from this report Freelancing in America. Starting with Reason Magazine:
A new report sh… Read More
2014-09-01 18:32
I found this New York Times story via the Huffington Post. Appropriate for Labor Day:
MIRA
LOMA, Calif. — Week after week, Guadalupe Rangel worked seven days
straight, somet… Read More
2014-08-31 22:07
This is so ironic. I found this New York Times article through Daily Kos:
On an evening during the last stretch of summer, 385 people arrived at the studios of LTV, a cable-access progra… Read More
2014-08-24 20:56
I found a couple of stories that I wanted to comment on. The first is this story by Kevin Drum, showing a real eye-opening chart on the Great Recession's impact on the poor:
Graph… Read More
2014-08-17 18:32
I found this NY Times story on both Daily Kos, and Kevin Drum:
SAN DIEGO — In a typical last-minute scramble, Jannette Navarro, a
22-year-old Starbucks barista and single mother, s… Read More
2014-04-26 19:51
I found this story through the Huffington Post:
At least five days a week, Myron
Ballard races around Washington, D.C., with a cargo van full of Amazon
Prime packages. A career delivery d… Read More
2014-04-26 17:26
I saw this browsing through YouTube, and it is just brilliant. Created by an animator named ToucanLDM, the Man of Steel is transported to My Little Pony's world, where he meets t… Read More
2014-04-19 18:12
I found this Huffington Post story:
* First-qtr net loss $0.03/share vs $0.11 profit year earlier * First-qtr adjusted profit $0.01/share vs est. $0.09 * Sale… Read More
2014-04-19 16:31
This story is just totally cool:
Using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the
first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the "habitable zone" -- the
range of dist… Read More
2014-04-19 15:58
For this morning's Saturday Morning Cartoons, I'm posting 1942's Superman cartoon, Volcano. From YouTube: Read More
2014-04-19 15:50
I found this story through Americablog, which reported that former president Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea Clinton is now pregnant. And it appears that the famous Clinton First Coupl… Read More
2014-04-12 17:33
I found this Gawker story through Daily Kos. Even I'm a little surprised at it. From Gawker.com:
During
discussion of controversial issues on abortion and fetuses Wednesday,
R… Read More
2014-04-12 16:30
For this morning's Saturday Morning Cartoons, it is time to get Merrie with Merrie Melodies "A Corney Concerto." The cartoon is a parody of Walt Disney's 1940 feature film Fantasia, in… Read More
2014-04-05 18:49
After the week of rain we had here in the Bay Area (and we probably need more rain), the sun is out and Spring is here. I found this MGM cartoon series Happy Harmonies short cart… Read More
2014-04-03 22:37
I'm not sure how to respond to this NewYork Daily News story, via Think Progress. From the New York Daily News:
UPS has delivered a special message to 250 of its Queens drivers: You… Read More
2014-04-03 20:56
This is from the Los Angeles Times:
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court struck another major blow against
long-standing restrictions on campaign money Wednesday, freeing wealthy
donors… Read More
2014-03-29 16:58
I found this over at Americablog, and it is just fricking brilliant! Seems like the creators of South Park created a parody of Monty Python's famous Dead Parrot sketch--one of the best… Read More
2014-03-26 21:09
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc, where Hobby Lobby is challenging the Affordable Care Act's insurance coverage for birth control is vi… Read More
2014-03-26 18:54
I found this story through the Yahoo Food Section, with the source story from the Wall Street Journal. Starting with the Yahoo Food Story:
There’s a whiskey brawl going on!
Not… Read More
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