Late last week, the House of Representatives announced they were seeking additional funding for the Cash for Clunkers program. The program, which allocated 1 billion dollars in subsidies and government assistance to those trading older, less fuel efficient cars for newer models with better gas mileage, will shut down Tuesday without new funding despite being [...] Read more »
The economy will fix itself eventually. It’s a foregone conclusion. How long it will take, however, isn’t clear. In my eyes, there’s one way that President Barack Obama and the current government can create jobs, cut costs, earn money and give the economy a major boost in one easy move: Legalize marijuana. Those of you [...] Read more »
“I really wish I could be there,” Jen tells me. “Hopefully they’ll have another in four years.” “Where?” “The inauguration.” “They have one every four years,” I reply. “No, I mean for Obama.” I understand that she likes the guy. She considers herself a Chicagoan and worked on his campaign. She’s progressive and young and [...] Read more »
As if it weren’t enough that the president-elect got his own origin story in a comic before he got elected, the upcoming January 14 issue of The Amazing Spider-Man will be featuring the nation’s first black president as a side-kick. Lisa Tolin of the Associated Press reports that Joe Queseda, Marvel Comic’s editor-in-chief, was so [...] Read more »
NOTE: I know some of you are left wing liberals already on the climate change bandwagon. I love you, but this article isn’t meant for you. For those of you who aren’t climate change people, this is my attempt to actually delve into the issue. Most of the links I cite will be from science [...] Read more »
It’s 5 AM in Prague and I’m crouched in a stairwell. The second presidential debate just ended on CNN Europe and I kept running tabs of the whole thing. I’ll post the entirety of my notes below, but you’re better off just getting transcript if you’re interested. Matt’s disappointed. He thinks Obama bombed. Matt is [...] Read more »
The moat around the old city in Chiang Mai glows late at night. For more brilliant pictures of Thailand, click here. I guess it’s simply the luck of the draw that no matter how good a time we have in our destination, our travel between places just doesn’t quite work out. Standing in the train [...] Read more »
I’m sure most of you are aware of the Hollywood writer’s strike currently going on. Just about everyone seems to be on the writer’s side right now, but the public hasn’t been very vocal on the issue. If aren’t familiar with the issue, view the following videos: On What the Writer’s Strike is About. Sarah [...] Read more »
In the January 2007 Issue of Harper’s Magazine, David Graeber published an article entitled “An Army of Altruists” discussing the reasons for the political unrest the US currently feels. For over a month, I’ve waited to be able to link people to it. Now, thanks to a posting of the article in its entirety by [...] Read more »
It’s come to my attention that we have a grave problem in America today: Zombie Weddings. You see, despite the fact that being a zombie is a mortal sin, people continue to be zombies without ever considering what sort of effect this might have on our children. San Francisco has become a haven for zombies [...] Read more »