PBS Exposes the Joys of Transit, written 3 days ago, NOW host David Brancaccio does an interview on the LA Metro. Click through for the full video. The latest episode of NOW is surely the most effective takedown of car-dependent planning ever broadcast in news magazine format. Adhering to the famili...

Daily Number: 48% - Seniority, written 18 hours ago, McCain leads among voters ages 65 and older.

THE SEETHING GENIUS OF "GET YOUR WAR ON", written 9 hours ago, ANGER + CLIP ART = CATHARSIS | October 13th 2008 Ever since October 2001, America's "War on Terror" has had a venomous critic in David Rees. He has used a comic strip to lambaste the absurd air-punching slogan...

Silicon Valley after a Microsoft/Yahoo merger: a contrarian view, written 8 months ago, This post is not about the potential Microsoft/Yahoo merger. Instead, let's just assume for the moment that Microsoft succeeds in its bid for Yahoo. What would a Microsoft/Yahoo merger mean for startups in Silico...

Bushism of the Day, written 13 minutes ago, "Anyone engaging in illegal financial transactions will be caught and persecuted."—Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2008[more ...]

Latest News on the Abortion Bill in Victoria Australia, written 23 hours ago, Isa 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil Latest News: October 2008 10 October 2008 - Abortion Law Reform Bill passes 23 - 17The Abortion Law Reform Bill has just passed the Second Reading vote in the Legislat...

Cock Ring Looks For Second Career, written 4 days ago, (Van Nuys, CA) The collapse of the economy is hitting Wall Street, Main Street and every street in between. No one knows that more that Kyle, an old cock ring, who was recently let go from his cock hugging job of seven years. "I don't know ...

In a Previous Life, Palin Loved the Media, written 4 hours ago, Sarah Palin's relationship with the press has been like that of a deer to high-beams, but it's not for lack of practice. According to an Associated Press count, Palin clocked more than 300 interviews and news conferences in just 20 mont...

Speaking of abuses of power..., written 3 hours ago, SPEAKING OF ABUSES OF POWER.... An independent investigation in Alaska, just three days ago, found that Sarah Palin violated the public trust when she abused the powers of her office. You?d think, given this reality, she?d be cautious on the...

New at Reason: Katherine Mangu-Ward on Naomi Wolf, written 3 hours ago, Katherine Mangu-Ward reads Naomi Wolf's latest opus and finds a rambling, paranoid account of her wrestling match with modern American democracy.Read all about it here. 

The dude at 90, written 1 day ago, Glasses were raised throughout the past week to the Rainy Day father, who has reached his 90th year. Among the celebrants was Seamus C. (born 1942), who regaled us with tall tales and true from a long life observed. For example, when Rainy Day Senior was hospitaliz...

Photo Trickery From North Korea?, written 6 hours ago,

Thrilled For The Shrill Oneby digbyThis makes my day.Paul Krugman..., written 6 hours ago, Thrilled For The Shrill Oneby digbyThis makes my day.Paul Krugman has been a stalwart liberal during these dark Bush years, taking the kinds of slings and arrows that only someone who dared to speak the truth ...

516. Madeira, written 11 hours ago, Stefan - Madeira, Portugal

The Whole Earth Blogalog, written 3 weeks ago, Three recent books (From Counterculture to Cyberculture, What the Doormouse Said and Counterculture Green) plus a slew of newspaper articles have examined the influence of the Whole Earth Catalogs and periodicals upon on our culture. I am not the first ...

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Did the world end today?, written 6 hours ago, Not yet, the economy is staying above water. Toward the future, here is a very good list of credit market indicators to follow. A lot of the credit markets reopen tomorrow. Felix Salmon is optimistic. But in Iceland shoppers are...

Christopher Hitchens endorses Barack Obama for President, written 5 hours ago, Simply a disgrace. I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential...

Clip Job: Hentoff on the Shaming of the New York TImes, written 2 weeks ago, Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives June 1, 1960, Vol. V, No. 32 The Soft Decay of The New York TimesBy Nat Hentoff We're witnessing, it seems to me, the gradual decline of what has generally been conside...

Andrew Bacevich: The End of Exceptionalism, written 3 days ago, Andrew Bacevich: realism and remorse Andrew Bacevich incandesces with the rage of a serious professional: with a West Pointer's scorn for political weasels and embarrassment at incompetent generalship; with a citizen's horror at the Lon...