Air America Radio Broke my Heart
Air America is going to start charging for their podcasts and streams. Considering I have to constantly justify the $10/month I pay for hosting and the $20/month I pay for Safari to Hillary, I’m probably not going to be able to justify the $60/year to podcast the Majority Report. I’ve already emailed them about my [...]
Labor is the Superior of Capital
Via Kuro5hin This is one of th best discussions of labor and workers’ rights laws I’ve seen. This is what the Internet is supposed to be
Courage from Tiffany
I’m not sure if anyone caught this, but a sophomore from Kansas State named Tiffany Cooper took a stand against Bush’s cuts to student loans and Pell grants. It took a lot of courage for her to do this. I know that, especially in Kansas, a lot of people will want to get retribution for [...]
Dean Speaks the Truth!
Howard laid the smack down on Wolf Blitzer on Late Edition yesterday. Crooks and Liars has the video and transcript, but the gist of it was: No Democrat got money from Jack “Me” Abramoff. Yeah, a couple of them got money from the tribes, but they’re on the Indian Affairs committee, so tribes sending them [...]
BBC NEWS | Technology | UN debut for $100 laptop for poor
BBC NEWS | Technology | UN debut for $100 laptop for poor “Every single problem you can think of, poverty, peace, the environment, is solved with education or including education,” said Professor Negroponte. I call bullshit on that statement. The problem in the poorest of the poor countries isn’t lack of education; it’s lack of [...]
Letters From The Earth
I heard about Letters From The Earth on What Do You Know on Sunday. It is an absolutely riotous collection of essays from Mark Twain critical of religion and the religious; pointing out inconsistancies and hypocrises, and holding religion up to the fine light of reason. here’s an excerpt. It is most difficult to understand [...]
Bush’s Choice
Bush has made his choice The question after Mier’s resignation was whether Bush would nominate a dyed-in-the-wool conservative or another vacillating crypt-moderate. Would he try to appease people in his party’s base (theocratic fascists) or go for a middle of the road candidate? Well, right now, Bush has shown that, like almost every politician, he’ll [...]
Shell CEO Calls for Efficiency Over Drilling and Refineries
via GCC This isn’t saving the environment, it’s saving his ass. As an oil company exec, he knows better than anyone that oil is a limited resource, and prices are just going to go up. He wants to increase efficiency so there’s less economic pressure to develop alternatives to petroleum-based fuels. The last thing this [...]
Organized Labor and Immigration
On Sept. 15, Thom Hartmann raised a good point about the link between the decline in union membership and immigration. As he filled in for Janeane and Sam, he said something like this: When you had most of the US labor force unionized, if a boss hired an illegal worker that he could pay less [...]
Liberal Crap I Don’t Want to Hear Again
Kurt Vonnegut has compiled a list of stupid liberal crap that he doesn’t want to hear any more about. The Daily Show was nice enough to host it for him, and so am I: Liberal Crap I Don’t Want to Hear Again Give us this day our daily bread. Oh sure. Forgive us our trespasses [...]