If the “ownership society” is so great, how come our leaders want to sell off our country?

Prairie2: But an awful lot of Americans think they will be trust fund babies someday if they side with the rich. They don’t have any plan for this (maybe buying lottery tickets) but they are sure it will happen just the same. So they are okay with making other people poor and the poor can [...]

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This is data mining we could use!

According to the GAO, the FDA does a piss-poor job of analyzing its recalls: Cardiac devices are the most common source of FDA device recalls, a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found [1]. What’s more, the FDA is not taking full advantage of the data it collects from medical-device recalls to [...]

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The Hardest Decision

Daisy is our old lady dog. She is a Chesapeake Bay Retriever /Australian Shepherd mix. This: Plus this: Gives us Daisy: July 2008   By any sane measure, Daisy shouldn’t be with us today. On the Sunday before President’s Day 2002, Sweetie took his girlfriend (that would be Daisy) for a ride to the store. [...]

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Saviors and Writers – Just cuz you think you is one . . .

I love this article by Mr. Fish for two reasons. First there’s this: Saviors, thusly, can never be trusted to be anything but mere amplifications of the dimmest wits among us, who are those who imagine that their concept of virtue is the version best suited for everyone. In fact, I always thought that the [...]

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“Reason is six-sevenths of treason”

James Thurber, THE PEACELIKE MONGOOSE In cobra country a mongoose was born one day who didn’t want to fight cobras or anything else. The word spread from mongoose to mongoose that there was a mongoose who didn’t want to fight cobras. If he didn’t want to fight anything else, it was his own business, but [...]

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Oh yeah, we value education. Sure we do.

I’ve been accepted to UNR for the fall semester as a “Graduate Special” student. As a consequence, I’m on the Grad Student distribution list. This came today: Subject: Dissertation abroad program cancellation The Department of Education issued a formal cancellation notice for several of its international program competitions; of particular interest to the graduate education community [...]

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It’s not lupus!

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Obama as King

David Sirota: If we take the Hill’s portrayal of its sources as an accurate picture of the White House’s not-for-attribution statements and attitude, and put it next to an administration that insists it is “astounding” for Congress to even consider fulfilling its War Powers Clause/War Powers Act responsibilities (and yes, they are responsibilities and not [...]

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Why I’ll be working my ass off to get Kate Marshall elected

Because the guy who approved this jaw-droppingly asinine ad should not be let any where near the halls of power. Ever. H/T Las Vegas Gleaner who writes: No massive defense contractor nor any other large corporation in America is ever going to have to pay their fair share of taxes, no matter what — certainly not [...]

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We are hostages

Most of us just haven’t realized it yet. Smith, like many, many others, thus adopts the captor’s perspective, and “fights” on the captor’s terms — and in this sense, he is “defending” his captor, just as a sufferer of Stockholm Syndrome does. If you fight in the manner permitted by those who hold you hostage, [...]

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