Obama prepared to talk to Hamas
Incoming administration will abandon Bush’s isolation of Islamist group to initiate low-level diplomacy, say transition sources. Reality and sanity is returning to D.C. What a welcome change that will be.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month January 2009
Your special Circle in Hell awaits you
New Ponzi Scheme: 82-Year old mini-Madoff defrauded priests
Oscar Grant BART shooting videos
This video captures the reaction before and after the shooting incident. It shows the officer firing on Grant, and the reaction from fellow BART Police officers who appear to react with surprise that the unidentified officer shot the suspect in…
Was Madoff running money for the mob?
Some think so, says Clusterstock But Gary Weiss responds But honestly, I don’t see how it matters all that much. What he did was so awful that it is kind of in the very cellar of horribleness, and cannot sink…
Solar-powered refrigerator
Emily Cummins, 21, invented this solar-powered fridge while working on a project for school. It “is now improving the lives of thousands of poverty-stricken Africans” and is entirely self-contained and doesn’t even have solar panels.