Toxic Hog Dump (h/t to tristero at Hullabaloo). From December 2006 rollingstone.com: Smithfield Foods actually faces a more difficult task than transmogrifying the populations of America’s thirty-two largest cities into edible packages of meat. Hogs…
Interesting view of the worldwide financial meltdown. The global economic crisis is like a Samurai movie, quips Dennis Meadows co-author of the 1970s eco-doom report, ‘Limits to Growth.’ In a Samurai film’s inevitable finale, sword wielding…
First — Shut the fuck up! Karl Rove is not only a nasty-faced, political-turd-slinging asshole, but also a true indicator how this country has been crippled by GOP bullshit interference, which this time around could be costly and…
“Just as you [Eichmann] supported and carried out a policy of not wanting to share the earth with the Jewish people and the people of a number of other nations — as though you and…
As all the world’s current problems and entanglements become more tightly bound together in a kind of Gordian knot, one item seems to be fading from any public discourse — the end of oil. Although there’s a…
Another strange little twist in modern living. From the BBC this week: The observations are baffling astronomers, who are due to study new pictures of the Sun, taken from space, at the UK National Astronomy Meeting.…
February made me shiver With every paper I’d deliver. Bad news on the doorstep; I couldn’t take one more step. — ‘American Pie,’ Don McLean In south Alabama where I was born, hunting and guns…
I hate Internet Explorer. My laptop went bozo Monday morning and I lost Mozilla Firefox and can’t get it back. IE sucks so bad, no linking, no images, no nothing. Bill Gates and Microsoft should…
Hack into the matrix: The malware is remarkable both for its sweep — in computer jargon, it has not been merely “phishing†for random consumers’ information, but “whaling†for particular important targets — and for…
Bow-tied and all business, long-time TV news journalist, Irving R. Levine, died Thursday at the age of 86. Levine was an original, who like Murrow, Cronkite, Howard K. Smith, to name a few, were themselves…