The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
Unrestrained savagery
In Yemen, Al Qaeda bombs a funeral of someone it killed days earlier. How can Terrorist monsters do this?
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/07/unrestrained_savagery/
Glenn is such a far out voice in the wilderness. Shouting in a vacuum all the time surely …
GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party
A veteran Republican says the religious right has taken over, and turned his party into anti-intellectual nuts
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/05/republicans_slouching_toward_theocracy/
Will the pendulum swing back? _Can_ the pendulum swing back?
The author makes some very plausible …
How Bias Heats Up the Warming Debate
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444405804577558973445002552.html
Yes, it is the WSJ and yes it can be easily interpreted as ‘anti-global warming’, but I think the article has a great deal to offer. As I have lamented many times …
This isn’t what you think, I guarantee you…
Truck owner wants DEA to pay up after botched sting
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Owner-wants-DEA-to-pay-for-truck-damage-from-sting-3743683.php
As hard as it is to believe that this even happened, it is even more difficult to believe that our Great …
Our Chick-fil-A economy
What happens when Americans start thinking about economic policy the same way they do gay marriage or abortion?
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/03/our_chick_fil_a_economy/
Man am I getting liberal in my old age! Reading this article and its comments on the Prosperity …
Education reform’s central myths
The education debate rests on two faulty premises: that public schools are failures, and choice is the solution
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/01/school_choice_vs_reality/
My complaints about our education system pull from my background. Maybe our education system isn’t really bad, …
Ludicrous Times Op-Ed Forgets Entire Year of Wall Street History
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/ludicrous-times-op-ed-forgets-entire-year-of-wall-street-history-20120801
More proof, as if we needed it, that we are all in really deep shit.…
Chris Hayes on elite failure
Why don’t American oligarchs fear the consequences of their corruption, and how can that be changed?
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/01/chris_hayes_on_elite_failure/
It is a bit repetitive to bring up the police state again so soon, but this is another …
Plutocratic vistas: America’s crisis of democracy
Is the present American national legislature an “exact transcript of the whole society”?
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/30/plutocratic_vistas_salpart/
This is really interesting in its historical perspective. I talked earlier about the elite ‘conspiracy’ to rule the world, some …
Extremism normalized
How Americans are efficiently trained to acquiesce to ideas once deemed so radical as to be unthinkable
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/31/extremism_normalized/
Regular reader(s) will no doubt be well aware of my thoughts on our police state. I haven’t had a …