Small Cat needs a home

I’ve written about Small Cat before. She was the loverly mascot at Comma Coffee in Carson City who, because of the complaint of One Person, was forced to leave her palace and moved in with June. I am sure that June has provided her with every comfort, but things aren’t working out as well as [...]

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Beating head against the wall

Oh for crying out loud. Giving away the store again. Shades of HCR. Obama to Open Offshore Areas to Oil Drilling for First Time (NYT) The proposal — a compromise that will please oil companies and domestic drilling advocates but anger some residents of affected states and many environmental organizations — would end a longstanding [...]

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Now if we could just get our uteri back

But at least we do own our genes. For now. From the ACLU blog: Late Monday afternoon, the judge issued his decision in our breast cancer gene patents lawsuit, which challenges the government’s granting of and Myriad Genetics’ control of patents on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 human genes, which are associated with breast and ovarian [...]

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Tuesday Tidbits – UPDATE

The Red Queen gives an economics lesson in A quick and dirty primer on progressive macroeconomics So first we are going to start with a basic macro system. It’s made up of 3 parts, the people, business, and government and it looks a bit like a triangle.   Stuff flows into and out of each [...]

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The Tea Party Pledge

I got this in an email today. It’s even better than the Day in the Life of Joe Republican. I get so sick of hearing the word “socialism” thrown about with abandon by Tea Partiers and other conservatives. I think this sums it up nicely. Tea Partiers, if you are really serious. Sign and follow [...]

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Monday morning news

I pretty much took the weekend off and tried to have a real life. Here’s just a couple of things I read this morning while sipping my coffee. I shocked! Shocked I tell you!  You know, maybe it would have been a good idea to have gone over the bill with a fine tooth comb before it [...]

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Francisco Ayala

The Templeton Prize has “evolved” over the years. This is good. These kinds of religious people I have No Problem with. A former priest who became an evolutionary geneticist and molecular biologist and helped scientifically refute creationism with his research is being honored with one of the world’s top religion prizes. Francisco J. Ayala, 76, [...]

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Both Sides

On both sides of the political divide we see absolute frustration. Neither John W. Smart nor Steve Nielson are surprised by the uptick in violence. First John: I’m going to go out on a limb here and just say it: Violent outbursts after the passage of the health care bill were not only to be [...]

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Three Nevada counties make top 20 list

Of the most stressed counties in the entire country. Lyon County is #3. Here are the 20 most economically stressed counties with populations of at least 25,000 and their January 2010 Stress scores, according to The Associated Press Economic Stress Index: 1. Imperial County, Calif., 31.34 2. Merced County, Calif., 28.09 3. Lyon County, Nev., [...]

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Black Agenda Report: Fake Fight over Fake Health Care Reform

Bruce Dixon’s excellent recap of just how this bill came to be, what it doesn’t do for Americans and who Obama considers to be his real enemy. Obama Democrats VS Tea Party Republicans: A Fake Fight Over Fake Health Care Reform The fifteen month running battle between Obama Democrats and tea party Republicans was never much more real [...]

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