"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
There are droughts worldwide now, with the US southwest and southeast suffering badly from them. TomDispatch has a long, thoughtful post about this asking, what happens if water really does run out somewhere? And doesn’t come back?
Catherine Wilkerson MD attempted to give medical aid to a protester rendered unconscious by police at a demonstration in Michigan. For this, she was arrested on felony charges and has refused to cop a plea to a misdemeanor because she…
This bad. The CEO of Wells Fargo said housing is at its worst since the Great Depression, while Goldman Sachs warned the credit crisis may force a $2 trillion cut in lending, triggering a ‘substantial recession.”
$3.23 a gallon. Last year it was $1.95. It’s about 130 gallons to fill it up. So that’s $160 more (for about 6 weeks of heating.) We can afford it. Lots of people in New England won’t be able to.…
From a post on the LBO-Talk listserv Then there’s this classic tale, from a U2 concert in Ireland. In a break between songs, Bono starts clapping, slowly, and as he’s clapping he says, “every time I clap a child in…