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“We’re here. We’re old. Get the f**k used to it.” [Edited for those of you who find the English language offensive.]
Mark Cuban, the dude who sold broadcast.com for $500 million before the internet bubble burst, recently vented about the media constantly writing articles about how anyone over the age of 30 seems incapable of adapting [...]

Presidential candidate John McCain has a perception problem: people, at least some people, think he’s too old to run. Facts: McCain is 71; he’s suffered from skin cancer. Have you ever studied photos of presidents before they took office with photos of when they left office? The job of being president is stressful, man. [...]

Local towns and cities rely on property taxes to fund their educational needs, recreational facilities and other community-orientated projects. Your contribution is the value of your property applied to a supposedly equitable rate of taxation. As any homeowner knows, the value of property can be a highly subjective assessment. If you don’t like your assessment, [...]

While it may be true that the cost of labor in China is cheaper than in America, the true cost of manufacturing products abroad is finally showing up in their standard of living. When you can’t breathe the air in your cities because you have no pollution control legislation and you can’t drink the water [...]

This old-new story blows me away. The executive director of the New Hampshire Republican party thought it was a good idea to jam phones so seniors and others being offered a ride to the voting polls were unable to request a ride. WTF!!! This is how a democracy works? A partisan official decides to implement [...]

Integrative Biology 131: General Human Anatomy. Fall 2005. Professor Marian Diamond. The functional anatomy of the human body as revealed by gross and microscopic examination.
Finally!! UC Berkeley is beginning to make class lectures available online for free! This is what education is really about. The cost of education today is more about bloated overhead and [...]

Words sometimes really do have a power to change the perception of the world we live in. New York Times’ columnist, Thomas Friedman, has officially declared the politics driving the purpose of America’s existence in the world over, i.e, the global war on terror as a bogeyman belongs in President Bush’s basement for future use [...]

Remember how President Bush can’t wait to leave the Oval Office so he can start making some big bucks on the lecture circuit. Well, maybe someone forgot to tell him that handing out favors while you’re STILL in the White House sure looks funny.
The first oil company to cut a deal with the Kurds, [...]

Writer John Grisham kicks off our Sunday morning with a bold statement about the current Bush administration that would sound right at home in President Hilary Clinton’s acceptance speech: “I’ve always thought that they were bad people with evil intent - and all that, it’s playing out now.” You have to love the Administration’s response: [...]

It took awhile, but we’re pretty happy that Dan Rather has decided to call CBS’ out onto the political carpet for not standing behind him when he was investigating Bush’s military record. Remember those days when everyone seem more interested in the gossip rather than the question itself. I mean, what happened to those Bush [...]

If you’d like to know why John Kerry was not elected, watch this video. Andrew Meyers asked him several questions in a passionate manner and is suddenly pulled away by University police and finally tasered into submission. John Kerry fails to say anything while this man’s right to free speech are cut off and squelched. [...]

Major crises breed ideal grounds for implementing political and economic changes that, under normal conditions, would be considered totally unacceptable. Naomi Klein investigates the use of psychological shock as a strategy for governments terrorizing their own population in order to push through agendas that benefit the supposed good of capitalism. She cites the economist Milton [...]

Is it just me or does the Bush administration orchestrate a splashy terror plot bust every time there’s bad news about his Iraq policy? Once again right on the day of judgment, when Gen. David H. Petraeus reports on whether “the surge” is working, lo and behold a couple of terrorists are conveniently rounded up [...]

If you thought the chutzpah of U.S. corporations in regard to the Consumer Product Safety Commission was limited to the ATV industry, then strap yourself into a hot wheel and sit back for a scary ride into the bowels of greedy capitalism. Robert Eckert, the Chairman and CEO of Mattel really doesn’t care what the [...]

For a frightening lesson in the absolute incompetency of the Bush administration, check out U.S. envoy Paul Bremer’s account of how the decision to disband the Iraqi army went down. Bremer is really just trying to cover his own ass in terms of being portrayed as the guy who made the decision to pull the [...]

One of the few pleasures of waking up early before heading off to work in the morning is the smell of a fresh-brewed pot of coffee. That first sip does wonders for energizing the body and mind into the realization that if you don’t get out of bed then there’s no paycheck at the end [...]

The Interstate 35W bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis portends the future in America. While President Bush willfully spends taxpayer revenue supporting a worthless effort (forget the word war, that’s just an excuse to usurp legal power under our Constitution through the Executive Branch) in Iraq, building and then rebuilding destroyed infrastructure, the Federal dollars that [...]

I keep reading that oil companies have failed to reinvest any of their record profits into building new oil refineries. Why? It’s pretty obvious that if you choke off the production of oil in the face of growing worldwide demand the price can only skyrocket. It’s a strategic choice not to build new refinery plants. [...]

The days of a paternal government looking out for your best interest are over, especially under the Bush administration. The string of Bush failures grows longer. The Washington Post is reporting that in the days after Hurricane Katrina (”heckava job Brownie!) hit New Orleans the displaced residents were offered trailers to live in that came [...]

The Catholic Church appears to have an amazing capacity to sublimate their guilt and shame and pass it off as aberrant behavior on the part of a few renegade priests, as long they confess their “sins” and say they’re sorry. When you found a religion based on a vow that your spiritual advisers will remain [...]