April 7, 2012
Video: Bernie Sanders Cites Study, 1% Gets 93% Of Income Growth
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April 7, 2012
My Take On Bob Woodward, Journalism, And The Internet
Mathew Ingram wrote a piece on GigaOM called Why Bob Woodward is wrong about the internet and journalism. In this piece Ingram says that “journalism needs more than just shoe leather now.” I will offer my take on traditional investigative reporters like Bob Woodward, as well as the role that the internet plays with modern journalism.
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April 6, 2012
Insomniac Edition: Depeche Mode – People Are People (1984)
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April 6, 2012
New Amazon Kindle E-Reader To Have ‘Glowing’ E-Ink Screen?
Devin Coldewey at TechCrunch reports that the next generation Amazon Kindle e-reader to be released later this year will have a front-lit e-Ink display.
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April 6, 2012
Video: Obama Campaign Calls Out 7 Mitt Romney Lies
In a new video, the Obama campaign proves it doesn’t take long to debunk Mitt Romney’s lies. That’s a good thing because there are too many to count.
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April 6, 2012
Sacramento County Treats Sex Assault ‘Victim’ Like A Criminal
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April 6, 2012
Health Care Is Rationed By Private For-Profit Insurance Companies. Is That Really What We Want?
We are told by conservatives that we don’t want government-run universal health care because it would mean rationing care. During the health care debate in the summer and fall of 2009 we heard talk of ‘death panels’ and ‘killing grandma’. Of course all of this was nonsense meant to scare people into thinking and voting a certain way, and it was quite effective, particularly on the Republican side of the aisle. The truth is we already ration health care in the United States. 50 million people are uninsured. How is that not rationed care? Health care costs are higher than they need to be (due to insurance company profits and waste) which means in some cases people forego treatment because they can’t afford it (even if they have insurance). How is that not rationed care?
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April 6, 2012
Cartoon: Stand Your Ground Laws – ‘It Was Dark, I Felt Threatened’
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April 6, 2012
‘Only’ 120,000 Jobs Added In March, But Public Sector Job Losses Continue To Shrink
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 120,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy in March. This is the 15th straight month of job gains when combining public and private sector. It is the 25th straight month of private sector job growth. The unemployment rate dropped from 8.3% to 8.2% but this was largely due to people dropping out of the labor market. The breakdown for March is 121,000 private sector jobs added and 1000 public sector jobs lost.
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April 5, 2012
A Really Inconvenient Truth On The Limits Of Growth
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