The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
Can 46 rich dudes buy an election?
http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/26/news/economy/super-pac-donors/index.htm
I suspect the answer is an unequivocal ‘yes’. Of course all Citizens United did was legitimise what was going on all along, the rich and powerful will always have an outsize impact …
Senate mulls an express lane for IPOs
http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/20/smallbusiness/ipo-bill/index.htm?source=cnn_bin
As if it wasn’t already easy enough for the oligarchy to rip off ordinary people, now we have legislation that will turn the clock all the way back to before the ’29 …
Do Statins Make It Tough to Exercise?
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/do-statins-make-it-tough-to-exercise/
A number of years ago after a Doctor’s visit my doctor prescribed statins for me (I think the actual prescription was for Lipotor, not that it matters). While I am not a …
Outsourcing conservatism
Arizona’s new contraception law shows how the private sphere often leads the way for reactionary policies
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/15/outsourcing_conservatism/singleton/
What can’t be accomplished from within the government gets done anyway. Using the Constitution to shield un-Constitutional activities, picking and choosing …
A bit of a slow news day, or rather a day slow on news that prompts me to comment. I read this article earlier today and was on the edge of blogging on it, but the activation energy was just …
Another March to War?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/another-march-to-war-20120217
Bla bla bla war with Iran bla bla bla.
This is getting so boring, just like that police state thing I babble about all the time. Can’t I talk about anything else?
I was speaking …
I have commented on the looming war with Iran a number of times and much like drone on and on about our police state it seems I am destined to drone on about the idiotic war we are about to …
Cyberwar Is the New Yellowcake, Fueling a Cybersecurity-Industrial Complex
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/yellowcake-and-cyberwar/
We do have a “Cybersecurity-Industrial Complex” exactly like the military industrial complex with the revolving door between the government and the companies sucking on its tits. However, the problem potential …
An ominous silence on the Supreme Court
Justice Elena Kagan should explain why she’s not heeding the calls to recuse herself from the soon-to-be-heard Obama healthcare case.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-segall-kagan-recusal-20120212,0,4442652.story
I guess since it is cool that our Great President can assassinate …
Forgetting a key lesson from Watergate?
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/04/politics/watergate-reform/index.html?hpt=hp_c3
Yes, corrupt money will find its way around any roadblock you care to put in front of it, power attracts the corruptible after all. However, when you legalize corruption, as we have done …