Greenwald on ‘repulsive progressive hypocrisy’

Once Obama got elected, turnout at anti-war protests dropped off a cliff. It’s clear most protesters were just anti-Bush, not anti-war.

Glenn Greenwald unloads against faux liberals and progressives, who now are a-ok with Obama doing what they protested against Bush for doing.

Repulsive liberal hypocrisy extends far beyond the issue of Guantanamo. A core [...]

Turn any link into a payment system with Gumroad

Gumroad could create entire new ways of selling things online. It could blow up PayPal. Seriously. This is disruptive technology.

It’s dead simple. Login to Gumroad using Twitter or Facebook. Create a link for what to sell. Gumroad does the rest (and takes 5% plus 30 cents per transaction.)

This means you can sell [...]

My kind of t-shirts

Two t-shirts from the awesome collection at Blood is the New Black

Continuing the theme, and for the ladies

Time-of-Use pricing for electricity in California

csmonitor.com

Rather than charging a flat rate for electricity, major California power companies like PG&E and SCE are moving towards Time-Of-Use pricing. Rates rise when demand is highest and drop when demand is low. Thus, power will be most expensive in the middle of a hot day when air conditioners are on and lowest [...]

Holder’s No. 2 in 2009: Gunwalking a ‘terrific idea’

It is now nonsensical to say Holder didn’t know.

The head of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division and Attorney General Eric Holder’s highest-ranking deputy, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, called Operation Fast and Furious and gun walking a “terrific idea” in emails to now-former Acting Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director Ken Melson back [...]

Federal Court panel faults US Forest Service plan for Sierras

Incantation, 1905. Anne W. Brigman, American (Metropolitan Museum)

On Friday the 9th Circuit Federal Court ruled that the US Forest Service’s plan to open national forest land in the Sierra Nevada to increased logging  and road building and less restricted stock grazing needs to address how those changes would impact water sources and the fish [...]

Google Web History

Google stores all your web searches and much more by default. Google Web History allows you to remove all your web history and to tell Google not to do it in the future. Perhaps you don’t want people to accidentally learn about your Albanian midgets on trampolines fetish. Just saying…

If you do an incognito [...]

Violence vs nonviolence

I considered writing something with Black Bloc in the title, but does that mean anything at this point? After the latest misadventure by Chris Hedges, “The Cancer of Occupy,” Hedges does a wonderful job of obscuring and misinforming his readers. It’s not often that such a crack reporter gets his very first sentence with his [...]

The cancer in Chris Hedges analysis

I don’t recall Chris Hedges being voted Moral Compass of Occupy, do you? Yet his temper tantrum in Truthdig implies just that. He knows what is best for the movement and it sure isn’t those icky Black Bloc anarchists. Yes, I think the Black Bloc are often misguided. But saying Occupy’s problems are due [...]

Unemployment is caused by poor sales, not regulations

The primary cause of unemployment, says a survey a business owners, is poor sales. Concerns about regulations are a distant third.

It’s not surprising that regulatory uncertainty seems to have such marginal economic effects. Regulations do impose burdens on businesses, but the numbers are relatively small compared to everything else that affects a business, [...]