Month January 2008

Woot.com

Woot sells one item, and one item only, per day, generally tech oriented and really low priced. Definitely worth checking out. And yes, they have an rss feed too.

Bizarre new banking regulation

Banks making sub-prime loans will be required to actually consider the borrower’s ability to pay and confirm a borrower’s income before handing over the money. Now there’s a radical notion. And yes, some banks and mortgage companies are screaming about…

The working poor

The NY Times has a poignant article about a 49 yr old man forced to move back home with his mother after the plant he worked at thirty years shut down. He was working hard, doing everything right too. It’s…

Antiwar movement. TNG

Garett Reppenhagen, board member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, left this comment yesterday to our post on the antiwar movement. Thank you to all the organizations that are assisting the Iraq Veterans and GI Resistance who are opposing this…