New Mexico teen accused of killing parents, 3 siblings may have planned...
BERNALILLO COUNTYBernalillo County has released the mug shot of Nehemiah Griego, a 15-year-old suspected of killing his father, mother and three young siblings Saturday in their South Valley home.Read...
View ArticlePresident Obama's Second Inaugural Address, January 21, 2013
Barack Obama 2013 Inauguration Speech - Full Speech - Second InaugurObama's Startling Second InauguralJanuary 21, 2013This was the most sustainedly "progressive" statement Barack Obama has made in his...
View ArticlePresident Obama's Second Inaugural Address, January 21, 2013
President Obama Delivers His Second Inaugural Addresshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzC135ql_wAObama's Startling Second InauguralJanuary 21, 2013This was the most sustainedly "progressive" statement...
View ArticleRepublicans Praise Obama for Offering Bold Vision to Thwart.
JANUARY 21, 2013REPUBLICANS PRAISE OBAMA FOR OFFERING BOLD VISION TO THWARTANDY BOROWITZWASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Congressional Republicans heaped fulsome praise on President Obama’s second...
View ArticleNew Yorker Cartoon: What's Really Happening To The Working Class
Automation, Robotization, Software-Enhanced Productivity, and Job LossThe Ongoing Destruction of "Jobs" As We Knew Themhttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-robots-are-coming-automation-and.html
View ArticleNew Yorker Cartoon. Knitting
Dear F,What would happen if we didn't have safe obsessions?Is it possible the world's craziness is entirely due to people who never discovered one?LoveA
View ArticleNew Yorker Cartoon: Whose Fault Is It?
***Alan: I'm reminded of a Spanish proverb: "If I'm about to die, I forgive you. If not, we'll see."
View Article886,000 Syrians Dead
“The Slaughter In Syria” by Andrew Sullivanhttp://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/05/the-massacre-in-syria.html***The number of Syrians killed in Bashir Assad's ego-drive belligerence is the...
View ArticleSpanish Runner, Intentionally Loses Race So Opponent Can Win
Posted: 01/18/2013 A Spanish runner has shown the world that sometimes, just sometimes, winning isn'teverything.Last month, Spanish athlete Ivan Fernandez Anaya impressed the world by giving up victory...
View ArticleWhy was Earth bombarded with high-energy particles in the year 774?
Enlarge / A representation of a neutron star merger.NASATwo papers, two different conclusions.by John Timmer - Jan 22 2013The one thing everyone can agree on is that something strange happened in the...
View ArticleSurrogate Mother Wanted for Neanderthal Baby
One scientist speculates that cloning a live Neanderthal might someday be feasible.MAURO CUTRONARELATED linksAsian Neanderthals, Humans MatedNeanderthal's Cozy Bedroom UnearthedWhy Humans Prevailed...
View ArticleBill Gates interview: I have no use for money. This is God’s work
Later this month, Gates will deliver the BBC’s Dimbleby Lecture, taking as his theme the value of the young human being Photo: Andrew Crowley for the TelegraphBy Neil Tweedie18 Jan 20131592...
View ArticleAbortion In America: Originally Supported By Republicans and Physicians
Bob Daugherty/AP1 OF 11View slideshowiJan. 22, 2013, marks the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide.But the conventional wisdom that...
View ArticleNew Zealander Wants to Ban Cats as Pets
JAN 22, 2013 07:58 PM ET // BY TRACY STAEDTEREconomist Gareth Morgan is worried that domestic cats are threatening the very existence of New Zealand’s native bird population. To that end, he has set up...
View ArticleFrontline: Wall Street. Too Big To Jail?
More than four years after the financial crisis, not one senior Wall Street executive has faced criminal prosecution for fraud.Are Wall Street bankers simply "too big to jail?"Tonight on FRONTLINE,...
View ArticleNo one knows what healthcare costs because invoices are fiction.
First the cat, now the health system puts the bite on meBy David LazarusJanuary 15, 2013A $55,000 hospital bill includes $16 for a generic Tylenol pill. Obamacare may end the systematic inflation of...
View ArticleHal Crowther: "Mean old (white) men are not a renewable resource."
"Do White Men Still Matter?" Hal Crowtherhttp://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/do-white-men-still-matter/Content?oid=3232485"As a new Congress convenes this month, the Democratic caucus in the new House of...
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