Obama reportedly to name Warren ‘special adviser’

Don’t you worry about that pesky Elizabeth Warren, Wall Street, the poodles are here

President Obama plans to appoint Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren to a Treasury Department advisory post that will allow her to help create the consumer protection bureau, a key component of the new financial regulatory overhaul, without subjecting her to [...]

Not that dumb…

Skateboarding sails

Give this refinement to the sport a few years and they’ll be doing totally insane things!

Oman brokered release of female hiker in Iran

Curzon tells us why Oman is everyone’s friend Among the tidbits

Oman is a safe country that is easy to visit, but what I’ve found most interesting is what I’ve learned from reading about Oman’s modern history and its truly unique foreign policy, which can be characterized in wonkish terms as a post-Cold War non-alignment [...]

Michael Moore’s mush-brained view of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars

From his latest newsletter

Never forget: Bad wars aren’t possible unless good people back them

Spare me the weepy, hand-wringing liberal sentiments. If we’d only gotten together and sang “Cumbaya” none of this would have happened. Hogtwaddle. Wars often happen regardless of whether the good guys back them or not.

But most importantly, [...]

US border guard gets 20 years for drug corruption

Martha Garnica was in league with a Mexican drug cartel and allowed large shipments of drugs to pass through the border, mostly by having her or other corrupted guards at a specific aisle at the check point. Maybe a possible solution to that would be to have vehicles randomly assigned to lanes by [...]

Howard Dean to progressives: ‘Get mad after Nov. 5th’

His brother Jim even made a special video for Crooks and Liars telling them to stop all that crazy talk of disaffection and vote Democratic in the mid-terms like good little lemmings, even though the Democratic Party has no discernable platform, plus they promise not to betray voters again. Really, you can trust them this [...]

Confirmed: Obama authorizes assassination of U.S. citizen

Just to get a sense for how extreme this behavior is, consider — as the NYT reported — that not even George Bush targeted American citizens for this type of extra-judicial killing

What happened to all that changiness Obama was going to bring. Who knew he would out-Bush Bush?

Previous DEA heads suggest US sue California if Prop 19 passes

There is real fear out there on the part of the prohibitionists. They see Prop 19 as the thread that could start to unravel the entire prohibition regime. If Prop 19 passes and the world doesn’t end/sky doesn’t fall/streets don’t erupt with violence/population doesn’t suddenly become mindless zombies, then why will the public support their [...]

Silent wind turbines for the city

Urban Green Energy has a vertical-axis 1 MW wind turbine designed to be put on city rooftops. The price is still steep at $7,000 but early technology always is.

Tip. Inhabitat.