One Head, Slightly Used
This May the head of St. Vitalis of Assisi, the patron saint of genital disease, was sold at auction for about $5,000 (3,500 Euro). This brings to … Read more
Blogs
Various blogs, featuring humor, oddities, news and interesting items.
“Too Big to Jail?” Not if there’s any justice left in America…
Excerpted from an article by Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com, May 11, 2011: They weren’t murderers or anything; they had merely stolen more money than most people can rationally conceive … Read more
Why I Don’t Laugh At PETA: Pt 3
The Chinese media has reported on an extraordinary account of a mother bear saving her cub from a life of torture by strangling it and then killing itself. … Read more
Shiny Happy Corporate People
Here’s the paradox in this whole concept of “corporate personhood.” When it comes to rights, Republicans say corporations are people. But when it comes to the responsibilities of … Read more
Analysis of Financial Terrorism in America
…The bottom line is this: A highly complex and largely discrete set of laws and exemptions from laws has been put in place by those in the uppermost … Read more
An explosive new 9/11 charge by ex-national security aide Richard Clarke
In a new documentary, ex-national security aide Richard Clarke suggests the CIA tried to recruit 9/11 hijackers—then covered it up. Philip Shenon on George Tenet’s denial. With the … Read more
What the Rich Don’t Understand
It’s not just income disparity that’s a problem. Consider how this all started. A bunch of smart people set up a kind of scam using complex financial instruments … Read more
A Few Words On Patriotism
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ~George Bernard Shaw Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious. … Read more
Progressives Say American Dream Movement to Rival Tea Party
by Mike Ludwig, Truthout As Americans face the economic fallout of the recent debt deal in Washington, members of the burgeoning American Dream Movement on Tuesday announced the … Read more
Austerity: The Wrong Prescription
By Carl Gibson f you were a patient in intensive care, sick and in pain, what would you say to a doctor whose only recommendation was cutting off … Read more
