February 19, 2008 – 3:36 pm
again:
U.S. stocks closed lower on Tuesday after a rally on Wall Street fizzled when the price of crude oil surged past $100 to a record high, adding to investor worries about inflation and slower U.S. economic growth.
Doesn’t its wrist ever get tired?
And can’t any of those record-profit-making oil companies manage to keep their refineries from [...]
February 12, 2008 – 2:01 pm
I was up most of the night with L., who is in the midst of his first unresponsive-to-medication migraine. Three Tylenol 3s and 6 ibuprofen later, and he’s just comfortable enough to veg out on the sofa watching The Cat Returns.
So, I took this morning off, and J. took off this afternoon so he [...]
February 8, 2008 – 7:40 am
Who runs Bartertown?:
The FBI Deputizes Business
Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does—and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they [...]
January 27, 2008 – 7:48 pm
British comic Robert Newman tells the story of Western oil dependency and the U.S.’s unique ‘trade relationships’ with oil-producing nations better than any Chomsky lecture.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8957268309327954402
Funny and illuminating.
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January 25, 2008 – 7:30 pm
Why will it take until June to get that stimulus mad money out to you?
I.R.S. computer and other systems “are today fully engaged in processing 2007 tax returns,” the committee said Monday in a report. “As a result, it is not practical to contemplate distributing cash rebates until the peak filing season is completed, which [...]
January 25, 2008 – 4:27 pm
He was instrumental in the biggest financial meltdown in history, pushing banking deregulation and “creative” loan products that unwound the U.S. economy, but evidently it was all worth it:
Greenspan said on Thursday that subprime mortgages were risky, but they helped broaden home ownership.
During a speech to a financial audience in Vancouver, Greenspan said subprime mortgages [...]
January 25, 2008 – 4:24 pm
Even when you expect a piss-poor stimulus package, our democratic leaders can still limbo lower.
Pelosi and Reid got out their kneepads again, giving the GOP thugs the store while eeking out miniscule help for the working poor and the middle class in an economic stimulus package that will not put money into any individual’s pocket [...]
January 15, 2008 – 10:01 am
For years, Braxton Berkley was exposed to chemicals while helping build top-secret military planes at Lockheed Martin’s storied Skunk Works plant. He says those chemicals made him ill — but his case reached a dead end at the state’s highest court.
The California Supreme Court has refused to hear his appeal not on legal merits, but [...]
January 9, 2008 – 11:16 am
Per Rachel Maddow’s advice, I read this article in the LA Times yesterday, about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s promise to fuck up any candidate who even thinks of restraining corporate greed:
Alarmed at the increasingly populist tone of the 2008 political campaign, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is set to issue a [...]
December 26, 2007 – 12:13 pm
Today is Boxing Day, which in the U.K. used to be the day when the servants (who of course had to serve Christmas day) got a rare day off to spend with their families, eating the boxed-up leftovers of their master’s feast. Lucky duckies!
Thankfully, no such outmoded classism gets in the way of the [...]
December 8, 2007 – 12:20 pm
Big Corporations:
A bipartisan group of Congressmen (and one woman) yesterday introduced a major bill aimed at boosting US intellectual property laws and the penalties that go along with them. While much of the legislation targets industrial counterfeiting and knockoff drugs, it also allows the government to seize people’s computers. The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for [...]
December 6, 2007 – 1:02 pm
- and no money in the budget to fix it.
We moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1991, missing by one year the first of three “100-year” flood events that have hit since 1990.
Like Minneapolis and everywhere else in the country, infrastructure is failing all around us, and no one is willing to pony [...]
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