San Diego Country isn’t happy with the McCain family. Turns out, one of the many trusts that administers one of their seven homes hasn’t paid taxes in four years. McCain’s trust scrambled to pay nearly all of the outstanding debt to the county. $1,742 of a total $6,744.42 remains.
If that seems like an [...]
McCains: Why cut taxes when you can just evade them? 06.29.08
Worldview from the cloud? 05.06.08
Very neat conversation happening over at reddit. I couldn’t agree more that there is an increasing information gap (not necessarily a “knowledge” gap, of course) emerging between the connected and the not. I’m sure several readers will immediately relate to the sentiment of the graphic.
smackywentz commented:
We were at a restaurant last night, and by ‘we’ [...]
Politics Has Lost Control of “Rogue Economics” 04.06.08
Loretta Napoleoni, Italian economist and Fulbright Scholar, has a new book that’s piqued my interest. Her appearance on Democracy Now this week finished with me very interested in her book. [Full Transcript] Napoleoni defined rogue economics at the start of her interview with Amy Goodman:
Rogue economics is a sort of umbrella under which we find [...]
A re-teaching of U.S. imperial history by Howard Zinn 04.02.08
Empire or Humanity? at Mother Jones brings us the words of Howard Zinn in his essay, “What the classroom didn’t teach me about the American empire”. It is the week of publication for his new book A People’s History of American Empire, a new graphic novel treatment of his “People’s History” series.
I first [...]
Canada, U.S. agree to use each other’s troops in civil emergencies 03.25.08
Did you hear about this? I sure didn’t. Which is surprising as I read six newspapers and several dozen news RSS feeds a day. Sounds like our governments were purposefully trying to keep this secret, too. From the Ottawa Citizen on February 22, 2008:
Canada and the U.S. have signed an agreement that paves the way [...]
Widening life expectancy gap between rich and poor Americans 03.23.08
A report in today’s New York Times reveals a large and widening gap in life-expectancies between rich and poor Americans. During most of the previous century, life expectancies tended to improve roughly equally across income divides. Since the 1980s this is no longer the case as poorer Americans see life expectancies improving much slower then [...]
Obama’s speech on a ‘more perfect union’ 03.19.08
On Tuesday, March 18, Obama gave the speech above (full text) and it’s set the internet(s) ablaze with conversation. Imaginably, that is entirely what he intended.
It is an important speech. Some call it the most important speech on the state of politics, race, and class in the United States in decades.
Glenn Greenwald [...]
Suicide, middle age, and modern life 02.20.08
Heath Ledger’s passing seemed to re-ignite a wide interest in the causes, treatment, and perception of suicide. Emerging research in the U.S. suggest the interest is long overdue and tremendously misunderstood.
Ledger, it has been revealed, accidentally overdosed. Nonetheless, he sparked a discussion and highlighted the media and society’s obsession with youth suicide.
However, new [...]
Market Failure: With Statistics! 12.15.07
The Congressional Budget Office of the United States offers the following, as reported in the New York Times:
The increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans from 2003 to 2005 exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans… The poorest fifth of households had total income of $383.4 billion in [...]
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