My Bus

If you haven’t heard of the Atheist Bus Campaign in the UK, go here for more info. If you’d like to create your own bus sign, just go to this link. Here’s mine:

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Another Okie Doke?

In the last few days we’ve seen articles about Obama excoriating Wall Street bonuses. So, he’s gonna do something about that, right? Um. Not really. It’s all faux outrage designed to play to the cheap seats. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration is not likely to impose tougher restrictions on executive pay on most firms [...]

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80′s Redux

Remember the hostile takeovers of the 80′s? They’re back. “I am very confident that we will be successful in taking 100 percent of Genentech,” Franz Humer was quoted as saying in an interview with Switzerland’s Basler Zeitung.  Roche launched a surprise hostile bid for Genentech on Friday at a price below its initial rejected offer, [...]

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Google Fail

The company acknowledged Saturday that all searches produced links with the same warning message: “This site may harm your computer.” Clicking on any of the links led to an error message stating that the desired site could not be reached. This was weird. I was in the middle of research when this happened. One moment [...]

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Bring Back Small Cat

June, the proprietor of Comma Coffee in Carson City, included this in her recent email: One more thing… as you may or may not know, there is someone missing from Comma Coffee. She has made this her home and provided a great service for almost 5 years. Her name is Small Cat. 2 weeks ago, [...]

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Something for nothing

From the department of Tell Me Something I Don’t Already Know Poll: Nevadans want education spared but no tax increases (RGJ) Key components of Gov. Jim Gibbons’ proposal to address a $2.3 billion shortfall by slashing higher education and cutting teacher and state worker salaries has met with intense public opposition, according to a new [...]

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“our Mikhail Gorbachev”

Ted Rall is a god. Sad, pathetic Americans! Like a dog that’s been beaten eight long years, they’re so psyched about the fact that their new master doesn’t drool and speaks coherent English that they’ll follow him anywhere. The media is in love with The One and so, therefore, is the public. No one questions [...]

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Dear Planned Parenthood

For crying out loud! I’ve never been a Republican, and I can’t believe that I am coming to their defense, but the stripping of Family Planning funds from the stimulus bill is not their fault. Oh sure, a few of them are whining and trying to score cheap shots on the backs of poor women.  It’s what [...]

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I’m not sure this is the kind of “bipartisanship” Obama has in mind

From my WaPo morning email: Democrats Among Stimulus Skeptics: Some See Long-Term Goals Going Unmet (By Alec MacGillis) The Republicans Are Smiling, but They’re Not Buying (By Dana Milbank)

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Juan Cole: “I am not interested in being a court poet…”

Juan Cole takes on Taylor Marsh and other hopium smokers: The danger of Obama becoming mired down in Afghanistan and Pakistan is very real, and is obvious to anyone who knows the history of imperial interventions in the former. Warning Obama that he started out on a bad foot in Pakistan and suggesting that he [...]

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