Greek Gov. Fires Military Chiefs
Wow.Metafilter summary:Mired deep in financial crisis, the Greek government of George Papandreou has sacked the country's military leadership: In a surprise development, Panos Beglitis, Defence...
View ArticleYour Future Job, Collar and Cancer Included
Here are a couple of pieces that tell the story of where we are, where we should go, and what we might be sliding to. Quick summary:After:1. Two billion a week for ten years on unnecessary wars (evil...
View ArticleNew Extreme Poverty; Some New Hope
The Brookings Institution has the bad newsFrom the Washington Post. Look for the money quote in bold (emphasis by TGW)Extreme Poverty Spikes in U.S., Study FindsWASHINGTON — The number of people...
View ArticleRecord Numbers Join Credit Unions
From ThinkProgress:650,000 Americans Joined Credit Unions Last Month — More Than In All Of 2010 CombinedNow, the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) reports that a whopping 650,000 Americans have...
View ArticleSmartphone Espionage
Should we get out our cameras or hide our phone screens? I guess it depends on legality and purpose. Spy software can see smartphone texting realtime (w/ Video)(PhysOrg.com) -- Last month, there was...
View ArticleNYSE Counter-Attack Attempt via Social Media
Good God. Almost funny. Via Wired (emphasis by TGW)NYSE Tries to Get on Same Social Media Page as #OWSNew Media Strategies, a social-media-marketing consultant with a résumé that includes work for...
View ArticleTexas to Kill on Wednesday, Nov. 9; please take action
In brief: Texas will deny a man a DNA test and kill him this Wednesday November 9, 2011.Take quick action here.DNA Exonerations Continue, but Not for One ManHank Skinner has been pleading with the...
View ArticleBenefits Gone, Strategy Coming
Most of US unemployed no longer receive benefitsBy CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER updated 11/5/2011 8:49:47 PM ET WASHINGTON — The jobs crisis has left so many people out of work for so long that most of...
View ArticleVertiginous, Retching Horror of the day
(Thank you William S. Burroughs for that turn of phrase)Via Political Wire:Cain-Gingrich in 2012?David Brody:"Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich were on stage together in what was billed as a classic...
View ArticleVoters Move to Blame GOP for Sabotaging Economy
via Teagan Goddard's Political WireIndependents, Moderates See GOP Sabotaging ObamaA new Washington Post-ABC News survey finds that 50% of Americans think President Obama is "making a good faith effort...
View ArticleExecution Stay for Skinner
Via Huffington Post:Hank Skinner, Texas Death Row Inmate, Granted Stay Of Execution By Court Of Criminal AppealsThe Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay of execution to death row inmate Hank...
View ArticleGod Takes Side of 99% [Action]
Vatican document calls for global authority to regulate marketsdiscovered via this post: The Vatican Calls for a New Political Authority Against "Neoliberalism" (love you, Technorati)First, let me head...
View ArticleMost Wanted Poisoners and Worse
I don't like the term "polluter". It means anything from the jerk who tosses a milkshake out of his car window to megalomaniac siblings sans conscious Davis & Charles Koch."Give a Hoot, Don't...
View ArticleManure to Mainstream to Mind: Occupy the Ideas
OWS slipped into the pundi-blogo-chatter zone faster than Herman Cain's hand up a dress. No surprise. It inspires, enrages and entertains. It's got cops, robbers (alleged) and car chases (until...
View ArticleNorquist Losing Troops
The right could be on the verge of collapsing like an abused souflle of evil. The dish they've served is just less and less appetizing.But there seems to be a change in the wind here (does it blow from...
View ArticleThe Pizzas of Doom
are topped with magic mushrooms grown in the GOP's patented brand of bullshit. And the base is eating them up like Deadheads at a buffet.This is the only explanation I can find for the state of the...
View ArticleEvolution IS a Myth
There are things I thought I'd never say."I miss Ed Meese" on the occasion of John Ashcroft becoming Attorney General."I miss Reagan" one month into W's Presidency."I miss Nixon" a month after...
View ArticleSong for Vets, and Prayers that
as we honor your ranks, they will not grow:NO MAN'S LAND (THE GREEN FIELDS OF FRANCE)Eric BogleSee it performed.Well how do you do, young Willie McBride, Do you mind if I sit here down by your...
View Article"Oops"
There it is. The sound of a dying campaign. History will say of Perry's bid that it ended not in a scream, nor in a whimper, but in an "oops".Not exactly a Texas-sized word, that. But it did the...
View ArticleNew Bank Fee-for-All: Truly Despicable Charges
"Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?", said Special Counsel for the Army Joseph N. Welch to Senator Joe McCarthy, thus ending the career of one of the...
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