Pity poor Rush. He works a long, hard, grueling, soul-smashing 15 hours a week, yet only makes $38,000,000 a year. Poor, poor, poor little Rush.After inking a new contract with Clear Channel's Premiere Radio Networks, has-been right-wing radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh will make about $38,000,000 a year for the next 8 years - plus a 9-figure signing bonus.They renewed this shit for 8 more years?...

Looky here, the Republicans are opposing an important voting bill!A pair of Democratic bills in California would ease voting for the youngest voters by allowing voter preregistration for those ages 16 and 17 and by letting 17-year-olds vote in the primary if they will turn 18 by the general election.Some states already let 17-year-olds vote in the primary under such circumstances. (When I was 17, I...

In case you're celebrating Independence Day weekend today (because the rain ruined most of July 4 as usual), this is how far the war against the holiday has gone.I'm told that in several places, police are now using ShotSpotters to detect anyone who sets off fireworks. A ShotSpotter is a brand of device that's supposed to be used by police to find out where gunfire comes from. I guess the country m...

This is the type of Nazi shit we have to put up with in BushAmerica.A May 30 rally in Eugene, Oregon, against herbicide use by highway officials went awry when police brutalized several participants. Now it turns out that the police were summoned by an agent of the Federal Protective Service - which is part of the Department of Homeland Suckyurity. Not only that, but the agent was also illegally sp...

Today I've highlighted individual rights more than the equally patriotic theme of reining in corporate power, but this is a story about both.Recently, Florida finally passed a law that said corporations can't prevent employees and customers from storing legally registered guns in their cars parked on the property. The issue pits individual rights versus corporate power, so it should be clear where...