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Well, here’s a shocker: America’s most deluded religious group, the fundamentalist Christians, “are 50 percent more likely to turn into obese middle-agers as those with no religious involvement.” Being dumb and poor and racist and homophobic apparently wasn’t enough for Jeebus’ true children here in America — now they’re doomed to fatness, too. Again, this [...]
Sorry we forgot to post about America getting into a war with Muammar Gaddafi again. What with the radiation cloud headed across the Pacific from some melting nuclear hellscape and the air strikes on Gaddafi’s Libya, we can probably be forgiven for thinking, “Eh, it’s just those incredible mushrooms and also that MDMA and probably [...]
The LA Times is so full of dumb, offensive, weeks-late stuff that it’s always a shock to get a new, coherent report that seems to reflect the current News Situation: Small amounts of radioactive isotopes from the crippled Japanese nuclear power plant are being blown toward North America high in the atmosphere over the Pacific [...]
Did everybody enjoy the “jobless recovery” of the past two years? Because, uhh …. The American stock markets plunged more than 2% today as everybody freaks out about the dismal housing numbers, the continuing craziness in oil-producing Middle East/North African nations, another round of the European debt crisis and (of course) the nuclear horror show [...]
If you’ve been avoiding the Business News because maybe you don’t want to know how badly your 401k just got radiation-sodomized, let’s just bring you out of the fog and into the harsh light: Marketwatch reports: US stocks plunged deep into the red Tuesday, joining a global market sell-off that started in Tokyo as Japan’s [...]
To the absolute horror of the teabaggers who supported his longshot run for Ted Kennedy’s old Senate seat, Scott Brown has turned out to be a pretty decent and fair-minded guy, and apparently has no qualms about voting for what he thinks is the right thing, regardless of party. Today we learn that he was [...]
Oh for fuck’s sake. This just got cheers at CPAC. Who knew they were so big on high-speed rail? [YouTube via Weigel]
It’s time for another episode of America’s Choice: The Final Days, starring wacky cocaine addict/hooker assaulter Charlie Sheen, who is apparently a television star and not just a full-time human joke, and what’s it, the place with King Tut. Iran? Guess who lost?
Ha ha, this is our attempt at a “business news” headline. (We were never very useful at the business desk.) But there does seem to be some investor concern, what with everything in free fall around the world and especially in the oil-y parts. Meanwhile, in sad-sack America, big companies from Amazon to something that [...]
Dugway Proving Ground, a massive Army base in Utah along the border with Nevada, has been under lockdown for many hours now because of some kind of “national terror alert” to “resolve security issues.” Dugway is a bioweapons lab and supposedly home to secret military aerial projects. More than 6,300 sheep died near the proving [...]
Everybody have a pretty good weekend? No? Oh, right. The Wonkbot was hoping to take the weekend off, maybe go down to the river and listen to some Bob Saget or something, Bob Seger, one of those. Something American, with all that entails. Just flop down in the frozen mud and shit and feel the [...]
What’s up, cancer man? You ready to bring dignity or whatever back to the House of Representatives, where you’ve been for two entire decades? Let’s do a mop-up liveblog and think about chasing the American Dream, with a gun.
Here’s some cheery news from the Roosevelt Institute: “Starting at the beginning of 2009, it is now more likely that someone who is unemployed will drop out of the labor force than find a job.” Uhh … that’s probably a bad thing, right? Anything else to weep about, behind the dumpster? “Underemployment, or those employed [...]
