- What Rich Republicans Don’t Understand | Booman Tribune • by BooMan
- We know the spark that lit the match was the shooting death of a black man in the Tottenham section of North London, but that doesn’t explain why people are rioting in [other parts of the UK]. It’s hard to come up with one single answer. First of all, the same thing has been happening right here in Philadelphia all year long. It’s just on a smaller scale. For example…What rich people seem to be forgetting is that the opposite of the New Deal is not some idyllic paradise of free-market bliss. The opposite is rampaging mobs who light shit on fire just to show you that they can do whatever they want.
- LinkedIn Links You to Brands and Products Without Your Consent » Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union
- Chances are you didn’t join LinkedIn so you could tell your boss or your colleagues which products or brands you like. But LinkedIn’s new “social advertising” feature does exactly that: …this feature was turned on by default, requiring you to find the right settings to opt out.To the best of our knowledge, LinkedIn is not sharing information about you with advertisers, as some stories have claimed. Nevertheless, it is taking your name and photo and using them in ways you never expected, without first asking your permission to do so.
- Tea Party Plans Free Market Colonization of Uranus | Balloon Juice • by John Cole
- “Some people inside NASA get it and some people don’t,” he later added.
- The Waste – NYTimes.com – Paul Krugman
- If we believe these estimates — and I see no good reason to believe that CBO is overstating the output gap — we’re now sacrificing output we should be producing, goods and services that we have the capacity to produce but aren’t producing due to insufficient demand, at the rate of more than $900 billion a year. By the way, the cumulative loss since the recession began is almost $2.8 trillion.So next time someone tells you that it would be irresponsible to engage in more stimulus, monetary, fiscal, or both, ask: in what universe is wasting almost a trillion a year, not to mention the human costs, a responsible thing to do?
- Utter Wrongness – NYTimes.com – Paul Krugman
- Pundits, Very Serious Politicians, and more have spent the past two years plus doing everything they can to make the deficit the center of public discourse, to focus all our fears on the attack by bond vigilantes that was supposedly just over the horizon.And now it turns out that what really terrifies the markets, let alone the suffering unemployed, is the prospect of a second Great Depression — a prospect that has become much more likely thanks to the utter wrongness of elite policy priorities.
- Are we too nostalgic? | Pandagon – by Amanda Marcotte
- As I’m sure you’re all aware, I have an allergy to grumpy old farts claiming that the world is going to hell, so I wasn’t likely to have a positive reaction to this particularly weird argument from Simon Reynolds that things were better in the 60s, man, because they were, uh, not as nostalgic as people are now. Yes, folks, Reynolds is nostalgic for a time when people weren’t, he claims, as nostalgic. I combed the article for any indication that Reynolds is aware of the irony here, but alas…
- Romney: “Corporations are people, my friend” | Talking Points Memo
- Romney tells Iowa audience: “Corporations are people, my friend.” Watch.
- Simple Questions | Hullabaloo by David Atkins
- Has anyone in the media considered asking the Republican presidential hopefuls a few simple questions:* In real dollar terms, how much more money do the rich need before they can create jobs? …
* Do you know what the marginal tax rates were under Eisenhower? Under Nixon? Why do you think the American economy was booming under those tax rates? …
* If the entire economy is hurting and everyone needs to tighten their belts in shared sacrifice, why are corporations showing record profits?
- Cat scans—and contest! | Why Evolution Is True
- If you have a scanner and a cat, you may be in luck. An alert reader sent me a site full of “cat scans,” in which readers simply put their cat on a computer scanner and post the results. Some of the shots (a few are shown below) are great.
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