Carlos Slim tried to do something horrifyingly evil with JP Morgan's help, and the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg are all over the story, but the New York Times hasn't uttered a word about it, possibly because Slim owns a fat chunk of the Times.

16 years after the majority Hutus turned to genocide against the Tutsi minority, and against moderate Hutus, Rwanda's Tutsi president Paul Kagame seems to have the trains running on time, but his methods are less than gentle...

Arizona passes a "show me your papers" law, and Jon Stewart declares the state to be the "meth lab of democracy," as described in Timothy Egan's "Desert Derangement Syndrome" Times opinion piece. At least Perry isn't going to try to make Texas follow Arizona's lousy example. Quoth The Hair, "As the debate on immigration reform intensifies, the ( Read more... )

First US Offshore Wind Power Project Approved

1800s photographic pioneer, artist, scientist, and canny self-promoter, Eadweard Muybridge

This sort of massive oil spill is exactly why so many voters really don't want offshore dilling in places like California.

A North Korean torpedo may have been what recently caused a South Korean ship near the border to sink after an explosion. Ah, those wild and crazy North Koreans. Kidnapping Japanese civilians, hysterical racism, propaganda, and personality cults, probably counterfeiting US currency, smuggling heroin and possibly speed, and torpedoing South Korean ( Read more... )

History I didn't know: The founder of Alcoholics Anonymous was inspired to begin the movement after feeling the presence of God, while in the hospital suffering through alcoholic withdrawal, which causes hallucinations, and taking belladonna extract, which also causes hallucinations, prescribed by his doctor in an effort to help him through the

Will boosters finally bring tourism to San Francisco's Tenderloin district?

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