Monthly Archives: July 2007

Bill O’reilly trivializes fascism & racial violence

…is what the headline should’ve been for this: Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly has all but declared war against the DailyKos website, writing about a “vicious far-left web site called the DailyKos, one of the worst examples of hatred America has … Continue reading

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Legalized Counterfeiting for Dummies

Hey, kids!  Y’know that funny li’l term “subprime lending” you might’ve overheard while flipping through channels?  Well, find a comfy chair and take a seat, cuz Mr Nystrom is gonna tell you all about it…

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Organized labor & the State: a shotgun wedding

Corporatists have been feeling even froggier than usual lately: Fifty years ago, more than 30 percent of private-sector workers were organized. That share today is 8 percent. Globalization and the new, technology-driven economy have contributed to the decline, but advanced … Continue reading

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Power for the abusing

Rogue agents: not just for crappy video games anymore! The Justice Department’s Inspector General, along with the FBI, are investigating an office that sent fake, emergency letters to telecoms requesting phone records despite not having applied for the future subpoenas … Continue reading

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The blogsphere bears gifts

From elsewhere: -Anonymous Liberal has an MSM headline-bias debunking. -Ron Chusid brings us Hillary exhibiting late remorse re: medical marijuana. Or craven political calculation that happens to lean to a decent result for once. Pick one. -Cunning Realist offers up … Continue reading

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Unnatural highs

If you’re a big-time stock broker, you’re probably doing pretty good right now.  For you, the US economy couldn’t be better.  Why, look at the Dow, it’s hitting record highs!  Everything is humming along, the sun is shining, friggin’ bluebirds … Continue reading

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“Y’know, they shoot tha lawyers ‘roun these parts…”

Ass-covering 101: The Federal Emergency Management Agency has suppressed warnings from its own Gulf coast field workers since the middle of 2006 about suspected health problems that may be linked to elevated levels of formaldehyde gas released in FEMA-provided trailers, … Continue reading

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Comments, among other things…

Comments work again. Also, I’m going to be testing adding a Reddit link to posts. Edit: Buttons kick ass.

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When budgets kill

A few facts: Roughly half of the military spending of the world: U.S. The US spends more on its military than the countries with the next largest military budgets COMBINED. The monetary cost of the war in Iraq is over … Continue reading

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Media Elitism & the self-replicating antidote

There are meaningful arguments to be had about the media, and also the ideal of an informed populace. This is not one of them: Greater access to media, ironically, has reduced the share of Americans who are politically informed. The … Continue reading

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