http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/06/afghanistan-wedding-air-raid-kandaharRead more... )

To the tune of Jimmy Buffet's "Margaritaville ( Read more... )

http://kdka.com/local/attack.McCain.Bloomfield.2.847628.html

Check the immediately previous post with the date on it.

Latest at: http://cronotica.blogspot.com/2008/10/white-woman-attacked.html

A free market can never exist, because the establishment of a market requires social intervention of some kind, without which there could not be a market. The absence of the market, economically, is the law of the jungle.

Capitalism postulates an economic law of the jungle that supposedly exists on its own, but it relies entirely upon the elites ( Read more... )

In keeping occasional tabs on that little petri dish of middle-class American ignorance known as Bitch PhD, I ran across an excellent example of censorship at work ( Read more... )

It doesn’t matter what color the chips in the casino are. The house always wins ( Read more... )

http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=9c69d4acc9dd49eaf89f

Vird, I think you will like this most of all.

(Previous on the subject: New York Times lying on the bailout and general bailout lies.)

I just read a great piece by Dean Baker discussing the LIBOR rate lies with regard to the push for the bailout:

[The NYT's lies about the LIBOR rate sound] really bad -- the highest overnight borrowing cost in history. Maybe it would have been helpful to ( Read more... )

Give me $700 billion or you will suffer.

That's basically what the New York Times is warning, here. The article suggests that unless we give the rich $700 more billion, we will suffer: "We are facing a major national crisis...To do nothing right now is to do what was done during the Great Depression."

More: "[A] modern economy can’t function ( Read more... )