The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
Court: Off-Label Drug Marketing Is ‘Free Speech’
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/FDAGeneral/36256
It is now official (unless the Supreme Court overturns it, which isn’t likely to happen), Big Pharma can now peddle any drug that made it through the FDA approval process for anything …
I earlier mentioned the undoubted hoax document meant to fire the sheeple up about a war with Iran. Well, once caught out as the idiot that he is, the original AP author has double downed on his idiocy. This guy …
DOJ Mysteriously Quits Monsanto Antitrust Investigation
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/11/dojs-monsantoseed-industry-investigation-ends-thud
Funny how our government treats everything as secret now. Soon people will be going to jail (like Bradley Manning) for leaking SEC investigations. The idiotic paranoia of the top of our government …
There just doesn’t seem to be anything worth writing about today (or the last several days, though I wasn’t browsing the news sites, just glancing through the WaPo). Same old police state, same old corrupt politicians, same old ignorant sheeple …
Still ‘paranoid’ after all these years
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/04/politics/paranoid-style-politics-hofstadter/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
Since I have often spoken about the looming apocalypse and the ‘conspiracy‘ of the rich to keep the rest poor, I figure that this article is quite a good fit here. …
Is the middle class an endangered species?
After losing ground for four decades, middle America increasingly looks doomed. Here’s how it happened
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/24/is_the_middle_class_an_endangered_species/
This is likely to be a rambling post, brace yourself… I have felt in my gut for …
Finally Liberated From Facts, Mitt Romney the Pure Bull Artist Takes Flight
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/finally-liberated-from-facts-mitt-romney-the-pure-bull-artist-takes-flight-20121019
The wonky types are all tied up in knots trying to understand Romney’s latest blather, but it can’t be done. This is a guy who says whatever …
U.S. officials believe Iran is behind recent cyberattacks
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/15/u-s-officials-believe-iran-is-behind-recent-cyberattacks/?hpt=hp_t3
The US continues to play the victim card and increases babble about the dangers of Iran to promote willingness amongst the sheeple for a war with Iran (I have talked about …
Why are Americans so easy to manipulate?
We may be loathe to admit it, but behaviorism and consumerism are cut from the same cloth
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/13/why_are_americans_so_easy_to_manipulate/
…behavior modification works best on dependent, powerless, infantilized, bored, and institutionalized people…
This an interesting …
Martha Raddatz and the faux objectivity of journalists
Establishment journalists are creatures of a highly ideological world and often cause ideology to masquerade as neutral fact.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/12/raddatz-debate-objectivity
Poor Glenn. So much dysfunction, so little time to express outrage.
This was …