BREAKING NEWS Appeals court postpones Oct. 7 recall vote From the Sacramento Bee A federal appeals court postponed California’s Oct. 7 gubernatorial recall election, ruling the historic vote cannot proceed as scheduled because some votes would be cast using outmoded…

WTO trade talks collapse The world trade talks collapsed on Sunday after 100-odd developing and least developed countries blocked the European Union and United States agenda to bring in new issues including investment rules and competition policy into the World…

Can not place phone call. Please download service patch, reboot, and try again Microsoft will be putting a version of its Windows operating system in mobile phones in North America. How can one do satire with news like this…

Crazy high gas prices editorial cartoons! Pages and pages of them!

Quote of the Day “Frankly, if there was a President Gore, we wouldn’t be in this particular mess. But we are, and we cannot fail.” — Former  Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, in Time, on what the United States need…

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Darth Ashcroft: Copyright infringement is your best protest dollar! From Boing Boing Remember the Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin gives himself his own music-track to accompany his comings and goings? Protestors are applying that to Darth Ashcroft, playing the…