Shucks, I’d love to get in some of that PAC action. Apparently, Congressman Rangel (D-NY) paid his son $80K to develop and maintain a couple of crummy websites, which were worth less than $1K according to some. That’s a nice gig if you can get it. More often than not, I find myself doing $80K…
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I recently got a Slim Devices Duet/Squeezebox player to replace my aging and annoyingly incompetent Roku Soundbridge. The Duet is an awesome little toy with incredible potential — the ability to stream a Pandora station thru your regular speakers around the whole house is pretty cool. My little gadget had some startup trouble, however. While…
Like we needed another example of why fervent belief in any religion should not be encouraged but rather listed in the DSM IV as a major mental problem: A man who rammed his truck into a woman’s vehicle on a highway early Friday told authorities he crashed into her while going more than 100 mph…
You read this story about outgoing FCC chairman (and GOP partisan hack supreme) Kevin Martin’s ludicrous plan to push a wireless internet option that would be free of porn, and the first thought that leaps to mind is of course: has that poor man *ever* been laid? Then you wonder what kind of thought-police would…
Vermont apparently has the nation’s second lowest birth rate. Vermont also has the nation’s lowest premature birth rate and was the only state to get a “B” grade on the recent March of Dimes Premature Birth Report Card (no state got an “A”). That is to say, we have fewer babies than others, but the…
The Republican wet dream of less gov’t regulation delivers once again. Infant formula is now discovered to be tainted with melamine, the killer chemical found in Chinese-made pet food a while back, and subsequently in Chinese-made baby formula as well. Dandy. And the emasculated FDA, house-trained to do the bidding of the neo-cons for the…
The Republican wet dream of less gov’t regulation delivers once again. Infant formula is now discovered to be tainted with melamine, the killer chemical found in Chinese-made pet food a while back, and subsequently in Chinese-made baby formula as well. Dandy. And the emasculated FDA, house-trained to do the bidding of the neo-cons for the…
I got this thrown at me as friendly banter by a contractor the other day: “heck, GM’s workers make $73 an hour; that’s why the company can’t compete. It’s all the union’s fault.” It sounded like something Limbaugh or O’Reilly could’ve cooked up for the ignorant bobbleheads, but no, it’s not the usual wingnuts but…
I got this thrown at me as friendly banter by a contractor the other day: “heck, GM’s workers make $73 an hour; that’s why the company can’t compete. It’s all the union’s fault.” It sounded like something Limbaugh or O’Reilly could’ve cooked up for the ignorant bobbleheads, but no, it’s not the usual wingnuts but…
… covering up the shit done in your name. Tell me again why we’re supposed to be so unflinchingly proud and unquestioning of this great army? Seems to me they’re no different than any other outfit: they screw up now and again. The only difference is, when the rest of us screw up, there’s accountability…
