Month: June 2011

Thoughts on GOP Primaries

The unified consensus of the Netroots Nation panel on the 2012 election was that Mitt Romney is going to be the Republicans’ nominee. It’s a topic that was also credibly covered by Joe Klein in this week’s Time...

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Deadly E.coli O104 in Stream near Sewage Plant

. Deadly E. coli found in Frankfurt stream FRANKFURT, Germany (The Local) June 18, 2011 – The dangerous strain of E.coli that has claimed the lives of nearly 40 Germans has been found in a stream in Frankfurt, but...

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Obama Impersonator Gets the Hook

Unless you’re simply not paying attention, a day never goes by when the Republicans fail to let blacks, gays, Latinos, Muslims, and anyone else they don’t like realize that they’re unwelcome in their party....

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Bachmann and Intelligent Design

I don’t know if it’s truly conservative to throw federal education dollars to the states without setting any expectations for how the money will be used. But that’s basically what Michele Bachmann is proposing....

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My Sucky Analysis of Debt Ceiling Negotiations

Imagine you are a hostage negotiator. A crazed terrorist has a doomsday nuclear device hidden where no one can reach it. He also has a remote control detonation device and his finger is on the red button that will trigger the...

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