Day March 28, 2005

The housing bubble. Some will get fooled again.

LA Times on the housing bubble, complete with unsophisticated buyers using their retirement funds to buy speculative property sight unseen. They’re cashing in retirement funds, selling stock and taking out second mortgages. They’re pouring the money into real estate, often…

Now we’re cooking with gas.

Poison gas, that is. Which can be created by teflon frying pans. DuPont studies show that the Teflon offgases toxic particulates at 446 F. At 680 F Teflon pans release at least six toxic gases, including two carcinogens, two global…

Commies invade fundie press conf

After remarks by Randall Terry — an anti-abortion activist who has been acting as a spokesman for Terri Schiavo’s family, the Schindlers — members of a group calling itself the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigades seized control of the microphones and…