Y'all heard about another founder of Facebook, Eduardo Saverin, who renounced his US citizenship before he'd be liable for taxes on that Facebook stock sale? Apparently under US law he'll be barred from ever coming back to the US. Unless of course he can convince the authorities that he wasn't doing this to avoid taxes, but there doesn't seem to be ( Read more... )

Seen on the TV Tropes Memes: Politics page:

"The Japanese Agriculture Ministry is not responsible for Gundam." - From a statement issued when the Japanese Agriculture Ministry caught two of its employees editing That Other Wiki's Gundam page on government time.

I like the idea of an Agricultural Ministry that also runs giant mecha. :)

The TPM posting here examines the why of the House Speaker's threat to play chicken on the debt ceiling again in December ( Read more... )

Story hereI've seen suggestions of this before; the Filibuster as used now is unconstitutional because it effectively requires 60% of the Senate for anything to pass while the Constitution declares that bills pass by fifty percent plus one and gives the Vice President a tie breaker vote. The Senate won't get rid of it on its own because it's so ( Read more... )

Umm, yeah. By way of an executive order by Governor Lincoln Chafee ( Read more... )

Saw this by way of a link at David Brin's blog:

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Just saw bit about the Olympic Torch being lit in Greece. And what popped into my head was "Doesn't The Doctor ultimately light the Olympic Flame for the London Olympics?" :)

Paul Krugman is out promoting his book End This Depression Now! and appeared on the Greater Boston program. As per usual he made lots of sense and made me wish that our leaders and the media paid more attention to him than to people like Paul Ryan and Tea Party folk.

So Mitt Romney is now taking credit for the survival of GM. On CBS the anchor asked a correspondent if there was any validity to the claim to which the correspondent said "Not if that means actually doing anything ( Read more... )

Lately, I've been watching a fair amount of anime online, mostly at Hulu and Crunchyroll. I decided to watch some of the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya that I'd not seen; I have the first season on DVD but not the later stuff. And in the infamous "Endless Eight" which have a Groundhog Day Loop where each of the eight episodes covers the same two ( Read more... )