East Coast Earthquake, August 23, 2011
Earthquake? (Why, Yes)
Up on the 16th floor. I was bouncing a little. UPDATE: They're evacuating buildings in D.C. Facebook is going nuts. The map below shows self-reports of who felt it and where: 5.9 is the official number. It was a shallow quake, which is why it was felt up and now the Eastern seaboard. UPDATE: Jeez, my mother in New … Read More
RIP, Jerry Leiber
He only wrote the music for "Stand By Me," "Hound Dog," "Jailhouse Rock," "Young Blood," "On Broadway," "Yakety-Yak", "Spanish Harlem" and one of my faves: "Stuck In the Middle With You". I would consider it my life's achievement if I wrote only one of those.
GOP Opposing Tax Cuts For The Working Man
I'm not kidding. After fighting tooth and nail to preserve the Bush tax cuts whcih predominiately went to the wealthy, Republicans are now lining up to fight against an Obama plan which will extend the payroll tax cut: News flash: Congressional Republicans want to raise your taxes. Impossible, right? GOP lawmakers are so virulently anti-tax, surely they will fight to prevent … Read More
The Fall of Ghadaffi
It's amusing to watch the GOP deal with the inevitable fall of Ghadaffi. They spend the past few months criticizing Obama for going into Libya and supporting the rebels in the first place. Now that the rebels are on the brink of victory, the GOP cannot find the words to credit Obama's Libya policy. Think Progress picks up the story: … Read More
Bank of America to Rick Perry: “We’ll Help You Out”
Bank of America. The mortgage-fraud syndicate that we had to bail out. The one that announced today that it’s laying off another 10,000 workers. The one that was caught employing a military contractor to conduct “cyber war” against business journalists who were reporting on Bank of America’s constant crimes. The one that saw a 50% plunge in stock value this year, helping … Read More
23 Polls Say People Support Higher Taxes to Reduce the Deficit
Can/Should the Budget Deficit Be Reduced with Spending Cuts Alone or Should There Be Some Increase in Taxes? Poll Date Some/All Taxes No Taxes/All Spending Gallup 8-10 66 33 CNN 8-10 63 36 McClatchy/Marist 8-9 68 29 New York Times/CBS News 8-4 63 34 CNN 8-2 60 40 Ipsos/Reuters 7-26 68 19 Rasmussen 7-25 56 34 CNN 7-21 64 … Read More
Mother Listens On Phone While Her Daughter Gets Eaten By Bears
This is, uh, unusual: A Russian mother listened helplessly on a cellphone to her teenage daughter crying for help earlier this week as she was eaten alive by bears. The horrified mother of Olga Moskalyova, a 19-year-old psychologist in training, heard her daughter's desperate pleas for help after receiving a call from her daughter on a mobile phone. Tatiana Tsyganenkov listened … Read More
Shorter Patterico Bigot: “Real Racism Is When Blacks Don’t Attack Obama”
Seriously, this is the kind of bile you get from the right these days. Here's the background: During a sometimes-raucous session of what’s being called the “For the People” Jobs Initiative tour, a key member of the Congressional Black Caucus told an audience in Detroit Tuesday that the CBC doesn’t put pressure on President Obama because he is loved by … Read More
Crash!
Dow down 500 in its first hour.
Useless
What's more useless than a braille version of Playboy magazine? Putting the braille version of Playboy on the Internet.
Tea Party Ranks Less Popular Than Muslims
Are they done? Polls show that disapproval of the Tea Party is climbing. In April 2010, a New York Times/CBS News survey found that 18 percent of Americans had an unfavorable opinion of it, 21 percent had a favorable opinion and 46 percent had not heard enough. Now, 14 months later, Tea Party supporters have slipped to 20 percent, while their … Read More
The Pro-Bully Agenda: “It DOESN’T Get Better”
With the clear trend moving in favor of same-sex marriage and acceptance of gay lifestyles, anti-gay groups appear to be getting more desparate. They seem to have set aside their "family values" tactics and opted instead for outright pro-bullying social stances. One such group, called MassResistance, seems to be spearheading this effort. Today, for example, one can read this OneNewsNow “article” by … Read More
Why The Eleventh Circuit is Wrong on Obamacare
Larry Tribe says it in plain (well, plain-ish) English: According to the Eleventh Circuit, decisions not to purchase health insurance are not economic activities subject to the aggregation principle of Wickard v. Filburn but are instead non-economic activities indistinguishable from the possession of a gun or a violent attack on a woman. This bizarre conclusion neglects the fact that a decision to forgo health insurance … Read More