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Currently Old Issues: 2009-01-05 labor demand and immobility: While I was on vacation in the internetless wilds of Minnesota for the past couple of weeks it occur... 2009-01-03 "Hamas Bringing Back Crucifixion": or not.... 2008-12-23 clean coal: Sometimes sequesterization fails.... 2008-12-21 Untitled: Looking over the Obama administration, the asshat preacher giving the invocation at the inauguration... 2008-12-19 crude: Ten years ago on this day oil was less than $9 a barrel.... 2008-12-16 "this is a major achievement": I think it would have been greater had it hit its target. Like so many other major achievements i... 2008-12-15 here comes solar calf, here comes solar calf, right down solar calf lane, nebo and nintu and all of babylon pulling for his reign: I don't know what this is about, and I'm glad I'm not paying enough attention to know. It's Zagmuk ... 2008-12-11 back in my day we didn't have fire or fractions! You had to paddle your canoe all the way from your cave across the thimble of sunyata to borrow your own savings! And we liked it! We liked it fine.: Joe: There were other important steps down the deregulatory path [from the repeal of Glass-Steagal... 2008-12-05 ouch : 533,000, "The economy has lost more than 1.2 million jobs in the last three months alone following r... 2008-12-01 "new" country hits about rapid technological change sound like they were written in the backwaters of some dark historical epoch, example one: We'll get back to our irregularly scheduled programming once we get some work done. Those market-... 2008-11-29 relativistic dog fight simulators: Something that's been bugging me for a while: outside this very neat proof of concept I just discove... 2008-11-25 the boat has no bottom: Bloomberg said yesterday that the Federal government had committed $7.4 trillion to lending facilit... 2008-11-24 "the crisis was not a failure of the free market system, and the answer is not to try to reinvent that system" --george w. bush: $7.76 trillion. The money that’s been pledged is equivalent to $24,000 for every man, woman and ch... 2008-11-24 lincoln was a crook, why should I remember anything else?: You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94%, it says. Apparently I've suffered short term dementia... 2008-11-23 logan's run method of saving social security: A new six-year analysis in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that the U.S. suicide ... 2008-11-23 HEADLINE: the too big to fail laughing at the too small to save: "RESEARCH ALERT-Citigroup cuts target on E*Trade". And... we have 300 billion more on the hook. Ye... 2008-11-23 wage inflation: "Not only are retiree benefits included in the $73 but so are employee buyouts" in GM's bogus hourly... 2008-11-21 back to the future: Hillary Clinton as Sec. State? This is a pitch perfect side-winder for the forces of change and be... 2008-11-21 the myers-briggs blog analyzer - or - my phrenologist says I'm a wonderful dancer: According to this thing I have been an ISTP for the past 47 posts, but as soon as you include the 48... 2008-11-21 Heckscher-Ohlin-Stolper-Samuelson: EPI's Josh Bivens appears to have written an introductory text. I would expect Brad Delong to revie... 2008-11-20 well, who killed the electric SUV then?: One with "a governed top speed of 78 mph (~126 km/h) with a range of 100 to 120 miles", manufactured... 2008-11-19 plunge protectionists: So there's a bunch of CNBC floating shoulders talking about the shit CNBC floating shoulders talk ab... 2008-11-18 fatcat UAW workers up in their fancy pants palaces with their golden lunch pails and stuffed truffles asking the innocent, pure as driven snow taxpayers for handouts: All of these people are absolute fucking idiots. There's no way a UAW line worker making the averag... 2008-11-17 bailed out: Citigroup, recipient of a recent $25 billion dollar equity injection, bails out another 50,000 empl... 2008-11-16 the run defense in EA's madden 09 - is it the shoes?: "This is what happens when you abuse capitalism."... 2008-11-14 post-mortems: If you haven't already read Dean Starkman's piece in the Columbia Journalism Review, "Boiler Room", ... 2008-11-13 accounting and competence, down the mines: Chris Carey: If the estimated savings from the new tax breaks are included, the [total amount of f... 2008-11-13 these newly released videos of the world trade tower attacks clearly demonstrate my conspiracy theory about 9/11: I have absolutely no idea why it's taken the FBI/DOJ three years to release these: via.... 2008-11-13 anthems of bailouts past and present: update: Looks like they'll have to wait a couple months for it. In the meantime American Express ... 2008-11-13 a fitting successor to the education president: If the schools are doing their job, we should expect educators to point to the significant and indi... 2008-11-13 iraq mortality studies: Did you know the Bush administration censored the views of epidemiologists from the Center for Disea... 2008-11-13 shark hazard: Barry Ritholtz rants by way of explanation why including punitive measures in the bailout bill would... 2008-11-12 general morons: "the company says its pension obligations are largely financed for its 479,000 retirees and their sp... 2008-11-11 if there's anything worth rescuing somebody else will: Scanning through the list of GM-funded think tanks today, I haven't seen one yet that supports baili... 2008-11-11 like a hummer with teeth: By my count, there are 56 open GM factories in the United States and 54 scattered across the rest of... 2008-11-10 windfall tax subsidies for the biggest financial corporations: Dean Baker finds an answer to how big a tax break this scam might amount to. The WaPo describes it... 2008-11-10 maybe merlin pulled it out of his hat: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has obtained evidence suggesting that documents which... 2008-11-10 richard danzig reading list: A hagiographic on his management style at Navy. The "International Human Rights Group" where he ser... 2008-11-07 office of legal council: I don't think many people could disagree that Marty Lederman would be an excellent choice for OLC. ... 2008-11-07 the margin of error on 4% of 2,240: N/A. If you care any further, normalize the results for income and education. ... 2008-11-06 which banks did our national asset manager, pliers paulson, purchase?: in handy graphical form.... 2008-11-06 this about that: I guess when I said: that is a big problem for us. I didn't realize how big. update: His father... 2008-11-06 returning a bit of the commons: The FCC voted to hand the broadcast spectrum being retired from the old analog TV signals back to th... 2008-11-05 MAYBE WE CAN'T: "With Victory in Hand, Obama Aides Say Task Now Is to Temper High Expectations" Is "lowering expect... 2008-11-05 the reactions of change: and another clintonista, this time for head of the EPA. RFK Jr. might be a lot of good things, but ... 2008-11-05 change as reaction: and introducing the sec. of treasury. I thought, at least, that I was voting against Hillary Clint... 2008-11-05 chief of staff: Oh great.... 2008-11-05 results that matter: John Joseph Polacheck wins a smashing 1223 votes! Conservatively assuming that 99% of those votes w... 2008-11-05 data: Between the 2008 exit polls and 2004 exit polls, I'd basically hand it to the youth vote. Though th... 2008-11-03 cestoda: Quite so: The elephant that is not in the room is a financial system. By a financial system, I don... 2008-10-31 loop holey: tax burdens: The U.S. corporate tax burden is smaller than average for developed countries.[1] Co... 2008-10-31 Untitled: Far as demand stimulus ideas go a national sales tax holiday is an interesting one I hadn't heard be... 2008-10-31 Palin apparently can't read, so why does she look at the teleprompters?: When I said this: Leave aside the argument that you'd rather have some small town pole come in and... 2008-10-31 midnight re-regulation: Quite the red-brown coalition we have here. I bet it works nearly as well as the opposition to the ... 2008-10-30 the independent Center for Data Analysis?: McCain's people call the CDA "independent". The full proper noun is "Heritage Center for Data Anal... 2008-10-30 the cake is a lie: Approximately, there was only one source of growth this quarter. Sadly, the economic stimulus of na... 2008-10-29 an injury to property is an injury to all!: Emmanuel Constant finally gets caught committing a crime Uncle Sam cares about.... 2008-10-29 YOU ARE ALL BEING BRAINWASHED: this is just an amazing specimen. Page 31: AN EXAMINATION OF OBAMA’S USE OF HIDDEN HYPNOSIS TECHN... 2008-10-29 when the world falls apart, some things will hold together with scotch tape: Pretty neat stuff: Russian scientists reported as far back as 1953 that from tape they had detecte... 2008-10-29 Untitled: Former chairman of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisors and general wiseguy Greg Mankiw rou... 2008-10-29 Untitled: Slate: trading on inside information is illegal, and when it involves highly classified details ab... 2008-10-28 saving: The family values, the family name, the family farm, the family bank, who cares anymore, really? ... 2008-10-28 haz nobel?: I'm somewhat fascinated by this grumbling by economist and bad speller, Edward Prescott: Society n... 2008-10-28 you know that farting sound kids make when they deflate a balloon?: CEPR has just released an Updated Analysis of Rents and the Price of Housing in 100 Metropolitan Are... 2008-10-28 the federal reserve legislates from the bank: Yves Smith observes unauthorized mission creep in the Fed's mission statements. related: Jamie Galb... 2008-10-28 how not to hack voting machines: If there is any remote semblance of factual truth to these allegations of touchscreen voting machine... 2008-10-27 for a $4,800 tax-free annuity, I might consider faking it: Comparing some hypothetical results at electiontaxes.com I have to say I'm actually kind of shocked ... 2008-10-27 redistribution: Markets redistribute wealth from those who sell low to those who sell high. Credit redistributes we... 2008-10-27 in the long run keynesianism is already dead: On Friday Uwe E. Reinhardt described tax incentives for investments in alternative energy production... 2008-10-26 nailed: Matt Taibbi and Brian York debate which magazine York works for: MATT TAIBBI: Note, folks, that th... 2008-10-26 US cross border raid into Syria: there are rumors of war, and then there are rumors of rumors of war. I suppose the Bush Administrat... 2008-10-25 just getting started: "consolidation" is another way of describing what happens when half an industry burns to the ground,... 2008-10-25 bailout math: There's been some consternation that the Treasury isn't telling us how much they're planning on payi... 2008-10-24 credit bubbles: I don't know how you could try to answer "How Did This Happen?" without mentioning the negative real... 2008-10-22 Monetary and exchange rate policy in small open economies: the case of Iceland: Stiglitz, 2001: ABSTRACT: This paper discusses monetary and exchange rate policy and the financial... 2008-10-21 notes from the frontlines scare me: jesus hopscotching christ on pogo crutches, the cyborg illithid overmind will CONSUME YOU ALL. As f... 2008-10-20 bugaboo: I've been getting directed to watch one of any number of rather scratchy looking documentaries on th... 2008-10-20 glossolalia: One of these generations we're all going to grow up and admit that the epithets "socialism" and "cap... 2008-10-19 colin powell's endorsement of barack obama: POWELL: Less than a teaspoon of dry hope, a little bit about this amount [holds up small, empty via... 2008-10-19 a brief history of the US occupation of Iraq, re-written in complete nonsense: per comments here. "The kind of ruthlessness that defeats insurgency involves things like pitting t... 2008-10-18 brandishing his Dumb War Theory credentials: "Last spring, Obama told me, 'It’s not that I was opposed to war [in Iraq]. It’s that I felt we had ... 2008-10-18 if you're going to just let them print money, maybe we should make a return trip to the free banking era: for all the flurry of economists posting about whether the federal funds rate should be used to defl... 2008-10-18 torturing the documentaries: I was gonna tell you about what I was going to watch on PBS this evening, but apparently you can jus... 2008-10-17 wait for the dinosaur: The internets produce their first work of high art.... 2008-10-17 in praise of idelness: Andrew Lahde, who walked away with a small, reputable fortune short-selling mania-driven financials,... 2008-10-17 "You will not make more babies by having many guys screw the same woman": Nir Rosen returns from Afghanistan with new wisdom, though just barely.... 2008-10-17 life sucks harder: This survey of adults at the bottom 40% of the wage distribution (incomes $27K or lower, 30 or more ... 2008-10-16 too big to fail is also big enough for smashing to bits: You could imagine how Maximum Leader Paulson and his banking posse would hate such an arrangement: ... 2008-10-16 numbers can sometimes mean things: The 50-60 odd trillion dollars of nominal face value in credit default swaps taken on end-of-bubble ... 2008-10-15 debate: McCain has apparently resigned himself to not being anymore despised by the GOP's base than he alrea... 2008-10-15 heil paulson! seig heil! seig heil! seig heil!: Arnold Kling does not welcome our new Maximum Leader. It's about damned time somebody complained, b... 2008-10-15 why is he still strutting around our office?: The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly e... 2008-10-15 the truth is so totally out there: Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Frank Gaffney reminds me of chief economist for the Uni... 2008-10-15 shit slides down hill until it hits the fan: Highest underemployment since 1994. Related porn'o'graph: the number of loan brokerage employees, 1... 2008-10-14 from the ashes of the old, but with the same skeletons: True story, from 2004: Of all the peculiar things Alan Greenspan said last week, none was more mys... 2008-10-13 Flip Flop the Drug Warrior: Maryjane mugwump Bob Barr, once the "worst drug warrior" in Congress according to the Reefer Liberta... 2008-10-13 cubism at the magical sausage factory: Sec. Paulson is saying he is going to buy shares in banks with the $700 billion from the bailout bil... 2008-10-13 another $480 billion a year on top of that $700 billion bailout on top of pouring unlimited liquidity into the banks so they can buy more treasury bills: Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Federal regulators directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to start purchasing $... 2008-10-11 the maximum leader has a palpable mind: We're taking equity rather than the stained toilet paper, now? What? Also, also. Between 2004 an... 2008-10-11 i guess there's some virtue in the sentiment: Chris Dillow suggests: One reason why I have revolutionary sympathies is precisely that I have a c... 2008-10-10 pwned: This year and a half old story about the American Center for Voting Rights, technically just a post ... 2008-10-09 campaign endorsement - john joseph polacheck: Flagrancy to Reason proudly endorses John Joseph Polachek for President. In lieu of our preferred n... 2008-10-09 campaign slings remote associations with life-saving terrorist: The McCain campaign fired shots across the bow today in further attempts to smear the Obama campaign... 2008-10-09 17 Uighur detainees not released from Guantanamo: Go back to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $0 dollars. Your Global System of Injustice and Tor... 2008-10-09 ha ha, they have been separated from their spouses and significant others for years at a time because of this war, let's listen in on their desperate, lonely phonecalls home and ridicule them over the water cooler: One of the many excellent features of Bush's extensive warrantless wiretapping program was listenin... 2008-10-09 perverse slopes: WSJ, sixth of home owners under water: The relentless slide in home prices has left nearly one in ... 2008-10-08 Untitled: I just started reading Peter Kropotkin's 1902 Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, and the first clear... 2008-10-08 That townhall looked like I felt: Breaking out, nervous, and bugeyed. Also, infinitely bored. ... 2008-10-07 he will follow bin laden to the gates of... purgatory?: Back in 1998 John McCain asked rhetorically: You could say, Look, is this guy, Laden, really the ba... 2008-10-07 fear the hearts of men are failing: Yves Smith and Roubini explain how the Federal Reserve's decision to restrict liquidity injection to... 2008-10-07 17 Uighur detainees released from Guantanamo: that's seven years of their lives they'll never get back, after getting swept up by Pakistani forces... 2008-10-06 a general theory of economics: Peter Dorman has published a rough sketch of where the dismal science might start if it wanted to be... 2008-10-06 it works, but mere citizens have to actually pull the trigger: One week ago: DEAN BAKER: The worst case scenario is that we have an extremely scary day in which ... 2008-10-04 heh: Real estate takes you for a ride ... 2008-10-04 joe biden is the senate's foremost foreign policy expert due to selection bias: My browser has crashed twice now, so I'm going to leave it with Stephen Zunes to run the highlight ... 2008-10-04 we shouldn't confuse the bailout bill with legislation that actually does something about the root of the problem: OBAMA: What I also think is important is that we tell our respective party leaders that extraneous ... 2008-10-03 another way to describe a new low: At the end of a heavy petting conference on the bailout between Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and John Boehner ... 2008-10-03 heil paulson! seig heil! seig heil! seig heil!: Everybody give Hank Paulson a warm welcome as our new Maximum Leader.... 2008-10-03 a critique of the vice presidential debate - or - I'm not going to bullshit you and pretend that I know what I'm talking about: A few days ago Brenda Rosser raised some curious points about the Fed's loosening of fractional res... 2008-10-01 how the senate lubes up: By my math that's 349 pages of nonsensical pork to grease passage? $100 billion more this afternoon... 2008-10-01 "The senators issued no details of their proposal.": Somebody (DeFazio D-OR) has finally proposed a banking bill that makes sense, based off this proposa... 2008-09-30 hosed: It's very frustrating watching Democrats stick to this very watered down version of Dodd's plan, whi... 2008-09-29 nepal moaists quacking up: The world's first Maoist Democracy, having abolished a backwards monarchy after years of bitter stru... 2008-09-29 Wachovia collapsed because it bought Golden West, 72% of whose home loans were sold under their "Pick-A-Payment" terms, where borrowers were allowed to skip payments with no penalty: What credit crisis?... 2008-09-29 ready the fiddles: Woo. Hoo.... 2008-09-29 "the Treasury plan is a disgrace": Nouriel Roubini doesn't like the draft of the bailout: recapitalization – via the use of public re... 2008-09-28 "We do not want to reward failure": The Treasury held a conference call for finance sector insiders tonight so they had a leg up on the ... 2008-09-28 bailout deal reached: By the sounds of it you could drive China through the loopholes. Equity only in "some cases". Bank... 2008-09-27 interbank lending subsituted with federal reserve lending?: Spikes in the TED spread can strike panic into the hearts of people who say they know what the fuck ... 2008-09-27 Is it really a debate when neither participant knows what they're talking about?: Obama's criticism of the so-called "surge" in the past has focused on the fact that short-term tacti... 2008-09-26 what happened to uuuh?: We are receiving rumors that Obama did a couple lines before the game, to pave a highway over the wa... 2008-09-26 paulson's price: Paulson has explained that his $700 billion bailout package is quite explicitly nothing more than a ... 2008-09-26 roiled: REUTERS (Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:54pm EDT): "Bailout Pressure Mounts, Roils World Markets". DOW Industr... 2008-09-26 I would like to thank House Republicans for this cheap financial experiment: Q: Can you look out the window? A: Sure. Q: Do you see a procession of bedraggled, starving sharec... 2008-09-26 NO: The one semi-decent plan to appear this week seems to have been the one Dodd introduced the first da... 2008-09-25 Peter R. Orszag is my new hero, because all my heroes are dead: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA! Orszag explained using the following example: Suppose a company has Asset X,... 2008-09-24 other people's jargon: Let me get this straight. Credit default swaps are a kinda-sorta insurance policy on debt. You buy... 2008-09-24 You all know it means nothing because it really does mean nothing: REMINDER: You should know that the pretense that there is a hard and fast deadline this Friday for t... 2008-09-22 surge!: "Our findings suggest that the surge has had no observable effect, except insofar as it has helped ... 2008-09-22 ass end up: The real victims of the housing bubble are ordinary folks who bought a home they could afford to liv... 2008-09-21 2333: the dollar amount Secretary of Treasury Paulson wants every man woman and child in America to hand o... 2008-09-16 after we finish raiding the last of your pension funds, we need to privatize social security: The peak and trough of the S&P 500 Index in 1997, in 2008 dollars: $1,317.29, $1,034.50. The S&P 50... 2008-09-16 Untitled: The only good thing about John McCain's healthcare proposal, in an article published in Health Affai... 2008-09-16 in case all this talk about the economy was confusing you: ... 2008-09-16 Untitled: Being something of a provincial, landlocked backwoods hick from a mountaintop in the middle of Minne... 2008-09-15 the losing edge: I'm really kind of surprised to find out that Joe Biden voted nay on the Financial Services Moderni... 2008-09-15 it makes my liver shrivel: NORML has a good breakdown of the perfect symmetry between the Presidential tickets on the drug war.... 2008-09-12 clawing our way back to the kiddie pool of international relations, where we belong: Am I the only one who thinks that not being whatsoever familiar with the Bush doctrine of preventati... 2008-09-12 that's a lot of three story homes: "All neighborhoods ... and possibly entire coastal communities ... will be inundated during the pea... 2008-09-11 palin*tol*ogy: Is that like the science of not knowing shit? Hey, I'm not the one who put it on the cover of Newsw... 2008-09-11 a silver lining to mccain's grumpy old cloud: Virtually everytime Hugo Chavez has done almost anything, no matter how clownish or benign, liberals... 2008-09-11 i would have thought this had already happened: "This is the first paper in the scientific literature that explicitly melds the two vital issues of ... 2008-09-11 PUTIN!! I CAN SEE YOUR HOUSE FROM HERE!!!: GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions, particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proxi... 2008-09-11 "a long string of bad luck": That's how Presidential candidate Barack Obama explains why life is so tough in Haiti. Tough luck.... 2008-09-11 drill here, drill now: Ever since I heard the RNC chant in one of their rare escapes from lethargy "drill, baby, drill!", I... 2008-09-10 "That’s called 'income redistribution.' It's a socialist tenet.": Up until a few minutes ago, everything I'd ever heard about McCain's healthcare plan was that it'd b... 2008-09-08 heh: The private sector should take the leading role in most areas of the economy because it is more inn... 2008-09-08 Untitled: I was going to flaunt my lack of better judgement and find some excuse to make this pun, at one poin... 2008-09-05 does she really eat mooseburger, even?: Seriously? She campaigned on the bridge to nowhere, she didn't send the money back to taxpayers, sh... 2008-09-05 what goes around lands in your lap: A little over a year ago Congress was asking Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to help bail out subprime se... 2008-09-04 one ambien away: n/t update: The NYT informs us that McCain slept through the first three days of the convention. ... 2008-09-04 it's probably better that they didn't play it last night: Palin's GOP intro video, which informs us that she "loves integrity, frugality, and moose stew", sug... 2008-09-04 Untitled: Dude on NPR ventilating about the array of voter registration fraud convictions against ACORN employ... 2008-09-04 somalia: The report, authored by Ken Menkhaus, a Davidson College professor who is regarded as one of the for... 2008-09-03 lies down snarling: I feel like they just handed the election away, like they didn't even want it. They must figure tha... 2008-09-03 shorter mike huckabee: If John McCain hadn't been shot down bombing a Vietnamese power plant the commies would have invaded... 2008-09-03 Minnesota Nice: didn't involve bootprints when I was a boy.... 2008-09-03 if W had been McCain's interrogator, Vietnam would have invaded Wisconsin, handing out decks of Green Bay Packer cards: Much gnashing of teeth over last night's idiot Bush quip: BUSH: If the Hanoi Hilton could not brea... 2008-09-02 eerily familiar: I was watching this really rather enjoyable brief history of climate science, a lecture by Naomi Ore... 2008-09-02 somebody in the conventions finally mentions US detainee policy: Isolation ... incredible heat beating on a tin roof. A light bulb in his cell burning 24 hours a da... 2008-09-02 another victory for industrial regulation: You can't test your cattle for mad cow disease, because it might "force" your competitors to test th... 2008-09-02 bright idea: PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama plans to hand out 6 million energy-saving light bulbs, nearly two pe... 2008-09-02 Untitled: The kids had a lot of journalists tagging along: I left the State Capitol before the marchers did,... 2008-09-01 so the anarchist sez to the other anarchist: "What are you doing!? You idiot! How is that going to send a message?" ... 2008-08-28 if chickens don't have lips, how do they go "bok bok bok"?: Barack Obama did not say "the threat from Iran is tiny". He should have.... 2008-08-28 young men have vivid imaginations: maybe these US soldiers were just imagining their orders to murder Iraqi detainees.... 2008-08-26 most days I miss Perl: If Rails produces a 502 Proxy Error: The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstre... 2008-08-25 Laos, 35 years later...: the most secret location in this clandestine war was the former CIA air base of Long Chen, in centr... 2008-08-20 coulda woulda shoulda: the National Security Archives gets more cool stuff: A 400-page Sandia National Laboratories repor... 2008-08-19 my imagination is turning into my father: The more I delve into the intertubes' enormous DIY community, the more I feel like I'm living in the... 2008-08-18 is it cold in here or is it just me: I was thinking this has been an abnormally cool year, but apparently the midwest has been merely ord... 2008-08-18 it'll all have to go: Thomas P. Christie has seen the staggering jewels of the night in their infinite dust and his mind h... 2008-08-17 spare me the humanity: Jad Mouawad, NYT, August 13th, providing a clear eyed view of the interests at stake: American pol... 2008-08-16 mental bulimia: A conservative acquaintance suggested to me this morning that Bush's actions regarding Georgia may s... 2008-08-15 a serious crisis, my friends: This statement today: MCCAIN: My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious cri... 2008-08-11 abolishing the cia: Jimmy Carter one asked why his daily brief from the CIA just told him what he'd already read in the ... 2008-08-09 I rung her before we sailed away, we're bound for South Ossetia: I understand a border territory caught between the spheres of influence of two major world powers is... 2008-08-09 Untitled: It turns out John Edwards is less the fag and more the manslut. I don't see the shame in either: it... 2008-08-09 fred l. smith jr. doesn't make a lot of sense to me: Fred Smith, the welfare queen founder of the tax-payer subsidized sinkhole for Exxon's windfall prof... 2008-08-09 don't confuse us with the facts: The New York Times reports about how awesome shit is down in Brazil, by way of idly kicking around B... 2008-08-08 misallocated predicates: I see James Galbraith has a new book out, titled after this old column, "The Predator State: Insert ... 2008-08-05 a slam dunk: Tony Fratto, deputy White House press secretary, says that Ron Suskind is "making wild allegations t... 2008-08-04 Untitled: We could cheaply power entire cities if we could simply capture the methane emissions from the conse... 2008-08-02 drilling nonsense: What exactly is politically shortsighted about taking away your opponent's shiny new cudgel and givi... 2008-08-01 it's not exactly chocolate cake: oil shale is very impressive [pdf]: Oil shale is said to be rich when it contains 30 gallons of pe... 2008-07-28 Untitled: I'd like to thank the reputable radio broadcast business press that reported repeatedly throughout t... 2008-07-20 rtfm: When I sat down last week and started reading F.A. Hayek's Road to Serfdom (1944) - the intellectual... 2008-07-17 we're all gonna die: Holy shit! Iran is going to use the selling and buying of goods as "bargaining chips" in Afghanista... 2008-07-15 a shorter month in democratic political punditry - or - on the way to having it six ways to tuesday: Last week: McCain surrogate called Americans whiners, zomg yowling snagglefart! NOT TRUE!! This wee... 2008-07-14 would you like flies with that: Maurice Dufour makes a powerful argument that the skyrocketing price of Haiti's staple processed foo... 2008-07-09 the table is a delusion, but time, time is forever: I was really impressed today as I drove home from Minnesota, and every news station on the radio fro... 2008-06-30 Robert Waldmann is funny: to the economics profession mathematical analysis of stylized models is taken seriously exactly so ... 2008-06-27 math is hard: On the one hand, says Beltway Establishment, we must drill every last drop of crude and process ever... 2008-06-26 normative postulate: A good idea that is traced back to its source will be found to have been conjured by someone with re... 2008-06-26 Launchpad McCain's Lexington - A future of dependence on powerful, nuclear armed industrial giants we're not going to be able to just invade when the moment strikes us, willy-nilly: "In a world of hostile and unstable suppliers of oil, this nation will achieve strategic independenc... 2008-06-26 The Third World - Right Outside Your Front Door: Mentally retarded infants should worker harder, and pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Nearly... 2008-06-26 short term memory: This plan that answers a question the International Press Services says "has never been coherently a... 2008-06-25 cancer is a gateway to death: Thanks to modern pharmaceutical technologies and corporate research and development efforts, funded ... 2008-06-25 can't quite put it into words: this really just boggles my mind: JAMES GLASSMAN, Undersecretary of State: I think Al Hurra is mee... 2008-06-25 totally dhimmitudinal: To defend itself against a lawsuit by the widows of three American soldiers who died on one of its ... 2008-06-23 speculation: I thought I'd try to figure out just what the fuck a futures market is, so I can the more enjoy long... 2008-06-23 what are you gonna do, a resurrection?: George Carlin's soul finally got stuck on the roof: ... 2008-06-19 celebrating highly effective failures: from a positively glowing account of US efforts to rebuild electricity production in Iraq: "Al [H... 2008-06-18 to decrease our dependence on foreign oil McCain proposes increasing our dependence on foreign uranium: Like most people, McCain complains about Jimmy Carter a lot. The terrible things ascribed to him ha... 2008-06-18 shorter dollars and sense: If we had France's nationalized healthcare system, we could cut taxes.... 2008-06-18 the flap-dive, the float-plunge: It's incredible how the GOP's anti-Kerry messaging of 2004 so perfectly described the Launchpad McCa... 2008-06-17 post toasty to the bitter, you dig?: this story in this 1974 documentary about Vietnam - about 40 minutes in - rather made me laugh and l... 2008-06-17 curveball: "Everything that's been written about me isn't true": "He always lied," said a fellow Burger King worker. ... CIA and Pentagon biological warfare analy... 2008-06-15 if it flies, he can crash it: Before John McCain ever started leveling a poor agricultural society in Southeast Asia to the dirt, ... 2008-06-15 redlines in the sand: The National Security Archives has released documents revealing some of the early planning for the c... 2008-06-10 40 more years! 40 more years!: ugh: Jason Furman's appointment allies Obama's campaign with leading economic centrists in the Dem... 2008-06-05 we kept tripping on the way to the printer, and by the time we got there it'd have burst into mysterious flames: I suppose now that Clinton is out of the campaign it would be a good time to hit that print button, ... 2008-05-25 Untitled: The recently-deported-from-Israel Norman Finklestein thrashes Jeffrey Goldberg so soundly it's downr... 2008-05-22 HEY RED!: There are men and plenty of them whose heads resemble nothing so much as the head of a dick -- colo... 2008-05-19 the war that keeps on giving: CIA and U.S. military intelligence documents circulating even before the Winnington report, classif... 2008-05-10 Is it time to bomb 1 Time Warner Center, New York, NY 10019?: Time Magazine - which has quite possibly never seen a war that it wasn't one of the first to promote... 2008-05-01 shamelessly defending himself...: Northwestern University == sissies. I suppose the "controversy" piled on top of Rev. Wright might ... 2008-04-24 suckers: the media's response to the latest reveal of the Pentagon's PR program notes - the only new news see... 2008-04-12 forking an ssh tunnel in ruby with password authentication: Everybody will tell you to do this with passwordless key authentication, and that's what you should ... 2008-04-11 Untitled: ... 2008-04-07 "If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace": Scientology v. Anonymous is possibly the most fascinating flame war since the birth of the internets... 2008-04-05 the etiquette-o-fascists have gone too far: I hold no more brief against civil discourse than I do archaic double negatives, but sometimes gener... 2008-04-05 Mayor Daley Welcomes You to the City of Chicago: The city for some reason has been repeatedly declaring my little saturn an "abandoned vehicle" latel... 2008-04-04 documenting the watching of documentaries: I was gonna tell you about what I'm watching this evening, but instead you can just watch it yoursel... 2008-04-04 JP Morgan fleeces public schools out of $12 billion in PA alone: School Boards are paid mad money to understand the intricacies of complex financial derivatives, so ... 2008-04-02 rules schmules: Without this declassified memo declaring the vigilante prerogative of the executive branch to wanton... 2008-04-01 rfk hearts mlk: The civil rights movement could never have succeeded without its allies in the executive branch. Co... 2008-03-30 Untitled: I don't think PZ Meyers endorsing hateful bigotry slapped haphazardly together by a book-banning fre... 2008-03-29 now i'm going down to emmit's fix-it-shop, to fix emmit: Mrs. Clinton said she would like to cap health insurance premiums at 5 percent to 10 percent of inc... 2008-03-28 "for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival": Frederick Douglass, why do you hate America? Or, to put it in a way that distinguishes between "the... 2008-03-28 "change we can believe in!": Reaction we can believe in! And in fairness to the Obama campaign, the Hillary campaign puts its mo... 2008-03-24 don't stop believing: Oh, hai America! Let me ask you a quick question: do you think Saddam Hussein was personally involv... 2008-03-24 you are in a twisty machine of complex instruments, all alike : or, the NYT being informative: the New York Times piece today bearing the hysterical title "What C... 2008-03-23 4,000: it will be news to the majority of Americans. But then, what wouldn't be? Among those polled for ... 2008-03-23 an introduction to introducing evolutionary psychology to political science: From Cosma I learn of Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa's "Why You Can't Get a Date on a Saturday Night and Why M... 2008-03-23 merry zombie jesus day: Iraqi Christians used to be able to celebrate it in peace. Nor is the zombie lord getting his fill ... 2008-03-21 documenting the watching of documentaries: I was gonna tell you about what I'm watching this evening, but instead you can just watch it yoursel... 2008-03-21 To call this sermon "anti-American" is... anti-American: via, somebody's finally been plastering youtube with full sermons by this Rev. Wright fellow. Here'... 2008-03-21 now with extra words in somebody else's mouth: That wacky President is at it again, claiming Iran has "declared" that it wants nuclear weapons - he... 2008-03-21 strange double standards: Why is this strange double standard being developed and perpetuated by the Obama campaign? Is it OK... 2008-03-21 I too recall fondly our glorious invasion and occupation of the Warsaw Pact: "I regarded 1989 as almost eternal proof of the notion that the walls of tyranny could fall if we h... 2008-03-20 one day ready: I wasn't gonna say anything the first time, or the second time, but: For the third time in two day... 2008-03-19 it takes an ivy league: In a working paper already getting press Radha Iyengar and Jonathan Monten have proven beyond all do... 2008-03-18 understatement of the academic year: Daniel Drezner reads the tea leaves and discovers wide public support for a "realist foreign policy"... 2008-03-18 more like this, please: Why does the Atlanta Police Department hate America?... 2008-03-18 Q7. Which of the following have you personally seen or experienced since the invasion of Iraq in 2003?: The channel 4 poll of Iraqis finds that 70% of Iraqis want us to leave, 60% want us out within a yea... 2008-03-17 the church of my fathers is in the cupboard: In commemoration of St. Pat driving all the snakes out of Ireland - to only return disguised as succ... 2008-03-17 god bless the united states of amerikkka: The comment thread on this story about planned changes to Chicago's public housing administration i... 2008-03-17 my country is full of lies, we're all gonna die and die like flies: Why hasn't anyone in the press questioned Obama about these inflammatory remarks by Nina Simone? ... 2008-03-16 I think we could start by letting do with less: Among the professional classes, many Democrats and Republicans, whatever their other disagreements,... 2008-03-16 "the continent must in the end be conqueror": Thomas Paine once wrote: Why is it that the enemy have left the New England provinces, and made th... 2008-03-15 take your place at the end son, we'll get to you one by one: For the third time in a decade, Bear, Stearns & Company is demanding tens of millions of dollars in... 2008-03-14 OH HAI! IM STILL IN UR CAMPAIGN, PRAYIN 4 ARMAGEDDONS: Hagee? John Hagee? JOHN HAGEE: I IZ VRY HONORD GUEST STILL! U DYE NOW. In other campaign new... 2008-03-14 30,000 Americans illegally spied on and robbed of their free speech in 2006 alone: At least. This is just the illegal issuance of national security letters, not all the other warrant... 2008-03-13 man that's shameless dinner theatre: Not the parody, he's been doing that for 8 years. The yuckity-yuks from our famous press corps.... 2008-03-12 We have vision! Our vision is a bright Afghanistan!: They're not chanting Death to America in Kabul anymore. Quest zindagee! Woo woo woo! update: From ... 2008-03-10 like you hadn't already guessed : Interviews with Afghan and U.S. intelligence officials involved in covert U.S. operations along th... 2008-03-09 the stupidest fucking 900-page draft memoir on earth: Douglas Feith corrects the historical record with one message: Douglas Feith is a fucking geeenius. ... 2008-03-09 We Wish to Inform You That Yesterday We Weren't Killed with Our Families, Thanks to Hillary Clinton: The Clinton campaign digs the knife in a little deeper and pulls out a thumping whopper. I can't de... 2008-03-07 a shorter tony rezko indictment: Now that I've finally seen season three of The Wire, it's simple! Tony Rezko is Clay Davis's shadow... 2008-03-06 people who misunderstand force: via - this 60 year old observation from Hannah Arendt that the past 60 years has unarguably demonstr... 2008-03-06 back to uzbekistan: After assisting Uzbekistan in the Andijon massacre we were kicked out of the country for complainin... 2008-03-04 a buddy helps some random fuckwit on the internets: I've been trying to put it this succinctly since who knows: the central tenet of the Hamas faction... 2008-03-04 the anti-christ fails saving throw v. death: Gary Gygax is dead. It's hard to think of any single individual that did more to change modern soul... 2008-03-03 a blow struck against venezuelan hegemony: A Venezuelan businessman has pleaded guilty to taking part in a conspiracy to cover up Venezuela’s ... 2008-03-03 preferences: "If Barack Obama gets in a scrap with John McCain over national security credentials, he might as w... 2008-03-03 let's take a look at those puppet strings: I wouldn't have expected the instructions to be so explicitly detailed, I guess: Jake Walles, the ... 2008-03-02 your imminent doom will end your boredom: Humanity is in a period exactly like 1938-9, [Lovelock] explains, when "we all knew something terri... 2008-03-02 how it really happened: So the almighty god totters off his infinitely high throne and cries for help, "I've fallen and I ca... 2008-02-29 the real terrifying thing is the equanimity and detachment: William F. Buckley Jr. RIPs are floating around with occasional embeds from his discussion with Noam... 2008-02-28 from the liberal arts college to the grave: Here's a funny little clip from the movie form of James Scurlock's book Maxed Out: The funny thin... 2008-02-27 mission accomplished: So www.theotheriraq.com is wwww.theotheriraqoccupation.com now?... 2008-02-23 if ignorance were bliss then we've been spreading the joy a bit too generously: Thoreau is skeptical about Bush's "mission of mercy" to Africa, correctly seeing it as a mission to ... 2008-02-20 oh yeah, and give me 50 beeellion dollars: I have a real hard time believing this table: Exhibit 2: Distribution of Federal Fiscal Subsidies... 2008-02-20 seven year lesson plan: BUSH: A clear lesson I learned in the museum was that outside forces that tend to divide people up ... 2008-02-20 they stand on the shoulders of giant windbags: no politician has ever said anything in a stump speech anywhere that wasn't field tested market appr... 2008-02-18 intermittency v. carbon sequesterization: While the subsurface reservoirs that would be used to permanently store carbon are finite in volume ... 2008-02-18 all the presidents' days: The Uniform Monday Holiday Act inflicted more damage than merely the sacrifice of a presidential bi... 2008-02-18 das leben der anderen: Pardon the film review and potential spoilers, but let me tell you how much I love my girl. When sh... 2008-02-16 Untitled: Freedom Is Untidy.... 2008-02-16 when the intra-multicultural violence ends: After the conventions National Geographic studies like this will be essential to the healing process... 2008-02-16 a briefer history of conflict in chad: If you sometimes find yourself sharing this not-uncommon sentiment about Africa, you need to know th... 2008-02-15 [insert blogger ethics panel "joke"]: Munro had also ignored the corroborating evidence I sent him, the 4.5 million displaced (suggesting... 2008-02-15 you wanna go where people know/that people are all the same/you wanna go where everybody knows your name...: ...and address, social security number, dob, bank accounts, phone records, lovers, dreams, fetishes,... 2008-02-14 one brilliant plan for carbon sequestering is to pump it into the oceans: A global map depicts the overall impact that 17 different human activities are having on marine ecos... 2008-02-14 "The United States, where we are, where we have bases, we are there at the invitation of those countries.": sez Whitehouse spokeswoman Dana Perino, not adding "by which I mean their soviet-era dictatorships, ... 2008-02-14 urban planning disasters: I should be clearer about what I'm saying about burning food: it's indisputable by now to point out ... 2008-02-14 demanding "thousands of hours and untold sums of money" from taxpayers in "good faith": That's how Illinois lawmakers describe their federal handout in the continuing hubub over FutureGen.... 2008-02-13 It's like, a tiger! In Africa?: A Marine in Okinawa! Allegedly raping a 14-year old girl? That never happens. Ever: according t... 2008-02-13 torture first, alibi later: Another one of Stafford Smith's clients, a Moroccan father of two who immigrated to England in the ... 2008-02-13 I have come to expect the Spanish Inquisition: "It seems to me you have to say, as unlikely as that is, it would be absurd to say you couldn't, I ... 2008-02-12 help a brother out: Like Taxi to the Darkside director Alex Gibney: ALEX GIBNEY: [The Discovery Channel] own the right... 2008-02-12 The Tata Nano: Stop it before it pollutes again: It promises to be, said Yale environmental law professor Daniel ... 2008-02-12 the festering hulk of a rotting republic: here I am watchin the rolecalls on the telecom immunity ammendment, it's like the American Society f... 2008-02-11 you litigated my secret task force!: You'd think there'd be at least one hit on google for "hillary clinton" "Task Force on Health Reform... 2008-02-11 smoke pot not smoldering corpses: nothing sums up the current Democratic leadership better than its vitriolic criticisms of those rec... 2008-02-11 a problem only a 'paradox' could solve: Via Robert Bryce we learn of "the Jevons Paradox", which dooms us to a future of high carbon emissio... 2008-02-11 spending $18000 on a $10000 budget: I'm glad that the commenters here are so much quicker on the uptake than the poster. It's like Mich... 2008-02-10 "We reject adultry, alcohol, acting, fornication, debauchery, and nude beaches. ... I am prepared to die.": I'd be willing to die too, if I rejected all that and was stuck in an Egyptian kangaroo cage. What ... 2008-02-10 To the Great Disposable Diaper, c/o the Pacific Garbage Patch: You must get frustrated because more people believe in Santa Claus than you. Well, let's face it, S... 2008-02-09 Untitled: I finally saw Charlie Wilson's War in movie form last night, and it was funny, I thought, when they ... 2008-02-09 to be hard on terror, one must be prepared to do the hard work of spreading terror: In this country it would be soft on terror to oppose it, that's why I support the power of the Walma... 2008-02-08 the 949 billion national security budget ate my paycheck: Fred Kaplan walks us to 713.1 billion, but doesn't include interest payments for past military spend... 2008-02-08 driving around on somebody else's breakfast: I just want to remind you that ethanol sucks.... 2008-02-07 ah, sweet consensus: Libertarians argue that the real problem is that we spend far too much on medicine and that America... 2008-02-05 Untitled: FtR endorses this endorsement.... 2008-02-04 our brief absence: a physicist ate my harddrive.... 2008-01-30 "I'm not criticizing President Bush on this because I did the same thing.": A Tiny Revolution discovers strangely honest dishonesty from Bill Clinton. Fun for the whole cluste... 2008-01-30 ignorance reform: It's hard to take Milt Bearden seriously when he complains that: When I first heard that the so-c... 2008-01-30 if we're not going to impeach, at least pass an amendment: Section 1. The executive and legislative power shall be vested in a President of the United States... 2008-01-29 we write letters: Sen. Dick Durbin is in a rage over the decision to can the 1.8 billion FutureGen coal boondoggle dow... 2008-01-29 hillary surged out of her seat: When Bush proclaimed, "Ladies and gentlemen, some may deny the surge is working, but among terroris... 2008-01-29 'refuting the idea that saving the world [as we know it] is too expensive': Gar Lipow has written a book I need to take a look at when I'm not working. First, though, an intro... 2008-01-29 They've bled us white, the bastards: ... 2008-01-29 somoza enterprises: Watching this old documentary about Nicaragua for the first time, the hardest thing to believe so fa... 2008-01-28 and they still don't know the difference: In the American mind, there was never any concept of Iraq, or of fighting in Iraq, other than the s... 2008-01-28 sexing up the intelligence: Via Jim, via Kerry Howley, I've learned that there was no such thing as "sacred prostitution". Step... 2008-01-27 no justice for the wicked: General Suharto has peacefully kicked the bucket, friends and family fondly remember stability, corr... 2008-01-25 an obesity stimulus: one could add to this that among men the relationship between obesity to income is the opposite of t... 2008-01-23 reaction begets regulation: Reminding myself of this about that: Business reliance on the federal government may have been var... 2008-01-23 plus good intentions makes it America!: This is interesting, the first graph in particular illustrates something I'd heard before but didn... 2008-01-23 surge!: Sweet, sweet confirmation of my previously stated bias ("an insignificant, meaningless, chair-shuffl... 2008-01-23 on the political uses of intelligence, or our lack thereof: Since it's obvious that His Hypocritical Heinousness Chairman John D. Rockefeller (D-WI) is never go... 2008-01-22 shorter 'grander strategy' manifesto: We must increase the risk of nuclear war to counter the increasing risk of nuclear war. update: I... 2008-01-22 all rubber and no glue: Just to confirm that flipping the names around works: "Senator Obama, it's hard to have a straight... 2008-01-21 these aliens are overtly racist!: the 1986 Soviet sci-fi epic Kin Dza Dza - if you don't watch it I may have to put you away in the e... 2008-01-21 Untitled: Gareth Porter on the investigative background of the bombing of the Jewish Community Center (AMIA) i... 2008-01-21 like some demonic, destructive suction tube: Jim Henley gets the message.... 2008-01-20 lights out: the last turbine at the only power plant in the Gaza Strip has switched off, plunging the territory ... 2008-01-19 a secret muslim in a racist christian church plotting universal dhimmitude in Kenya: The froth from our jibbering conspiracy minded wingnut cousins since the Insight fraud of Barack Oba... 2008-01-18 i guess we'll never know: whitehouse erases 473 days of our national history: ... 2008-01-17 Untitled: Do not picket the scab!... 2008-01-17 Untitled: Whoever invented this site to help the uninformed voter find out where the candidates stand on healt... 2008-01-17 all your borderlands are belong to us: Far as I can recall I though eminent domain was supposed to be used for some demonstrable public goo... 2008-01-15 fill in the links: or just try to keep up with the run-on sentence: Iraqi Defense Minister Abdul Qadir Mohammed Jassim... 2008-01-14 fairy tales: It would also appear to misconstrue the facts to not mention Saddam's invitation to "weapons inspect... 2008-01-14 Untitled: If the CIA had just waterboarded Nosenko we could have gotten him to confess to staging the moon lan... 2008-01-13 billary obama 2008: balancing firmly on nothing: One corollary of Clinton's tacking her years decorating the White House and bogarting healthcare ref... 2008-01-10 for the greater good of our own particular stupid wastes of money: I think there might be an internal contradiction between conservative opposition to eminent domain a... 2008-01-10 please relinquish your vote for our campaign: I promise you that you and I will be a catalyst for alteration! I will hem the garments! Trim the ... 2008-01-10 bring out your dead: Ninepence for any newspaper that reports this one accurately. The new WHO/IFHS study on relative Ir... 2008-01-09 Untitled: They just hate America.... 2008-01-08 do something: Buy gold.... 2008-01-07 electability: I assume somebody somewhere is proffering the theory that Obama has obliterated Clinton's lead in th... 2008-01-07 kenya: The Washington Post publishes a hard line blaming Britain for Kenya's problems and points out the sp... 2008-01-07 The Party of Personal Responsibility: it's libruls' fault conservatives can't code.... 2008-01-06 change? I'll bring it on, it's already been broughten: Romney and Clinton seem to have filled in the same madlib about how they're experienced change-maker... 2008-01-04 maybe it's a random sample survey?: A new CEPR study has found that C-SPAN overwhelmingly favors conservative think tanks in its covera... 2008-01-04 the primary function being democracy: I expanded my mind with important cultural artifacts last night instead of wasting attention on Iowa... 2008-01-03 Untitled: Um, if Bush neither vetoed nor pocket-vetoed the bill then the bill would be law, so why would Pelos... 2008-01-03 why we should read old back issues of The National Review: The song goes: To my knowledge there is just one man That's really a true American That's George L... 2008-01-02 "Of what appreciable value is it to any man, as an individual, that he is allowed a voice in choosing these public masters? His voice is only one of several millions.": When I think about Ron Paul I think about this: The Constitution is no such instrument as it has g... 2008-01-02 or you could zerbert its nose: I was just thinking, if a tiger attacks you, put your hand in it's mouth. If that doesn't stop it, ... 2007-12-21 escalating the air war: US Airpower in Iraq and Afghanistan: 2004-2007 [pdf]. In it you'll find the number of sorties flown... 2007-12-20 by "liberal fascism" jonah goldberg of course doesn't intend to suggest that liberals are fascists: George W. Bush, you'll recall, was only recently discovered to be too liberal to be a conservative, ... 2007-12-19 I have wonderful news I won't be sharing with you: "The federal government’s fiscal exposures totaled approximately $53 trillion as of September 30, 2... 2007-12-16 gold diggers recognize gender income gap: as if to say, "Baby, I know all about the glass ceiling, I knew the men who died building it. That'... 2007-12-16 whiskey makes you rich and famous, gin makes you lazy and homeless: The Gin Act of 1751 outlawed gin in England but left the more expensive brown stuff well enough alon... 2007-12-12 "54 percent believe the Bush administration deliberately misled them about whether Iran was attempting to develop nuclear weapons": You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.... 2007-12-10 sex and violence: Our impartial, apolitical, fearless soothsayers of truth to power at Freedom House: Freedom House,... 2007-12-09 feminist patriarchy subverter: Even our games about smashing things are being infected by vicious pathogen of political correctness... 2007-12-08 now mitt extra oxymoron: Romney literally said "the religion of non-religion". No wonder Jesus picked Huckabee. ... 2007-12-07 a little less chavismo, a little more machismo, please: I've been reading about the 60 odd constitutional ammendments that were shot down in a public refere... 2007-12-07 Untitled: Conservatives only misunderstand force.... 2007-12-06 "the male stripper figures out they could trade hashish for dynamite": Scott Atran deconstructs the Madrid Plot, among others, starting at about 1:20. It's a little mumbl... 2007-12-05 I think it's bullshit how these fucking civilians are dying!: and other passive observations.... 2007-12-03 what do we bomb them for now?: Long delayed and overdue National Intelligence Estimate says Iran not building nuclear weapons. "Th... 2007-12-03 further evidence we are near the end times: In 2000, World Health Organization officials estimated that 757,000 people - nearly all of them chi... 2007-11-30 what you get for those enforceable core ILO labor rights: three years ago US labor groups were pretty content with the labor provisions of our trade agreement... 2007-11-30 Bill: I