A little bit older, but Xanthippas and I were talking about this and he said I should blog it (which advice I take about 10% of the time or less). From Kevin Drum: The student loan market is a mess, and it's mainly a mess because the federal student loan program is woefully inadequate. Follow the li...

I have sadly failed to keep up my posting on Somalia (my last was, shockingly, November 2007). Predictably though, things have not gotten better. I'll let you read the whole sordid story for yourself in this NYT article, but the big story is that basically, the Transitional National Government can n...

This is too interesting of a story not to share. You can hear Kirk Hammett tell it himself (although he says "cool" way too many times). And even if you don't care for Metallica (or even hate them, you bastard) I think you'll still find this to be a pretty nifty music video. To summarize, on Metalli...

Sigh...how I wish it was true. Just because white entertainers don't run around in blackface anymore and expect "coloreds" to sit in the back of the bus, folks (white folks mainly) insist that racism is over and done with. And seemingly all white guilt has been suddenly expiated as if black Jesus ju...

Hey Hugo, you're playing with fire. For the past six months, it seems that Medvedev has been working hard to dismantle his liberal image and revive memories of the Cold War, reports CBS News' Alexsei Kuznetsov. Chavez, basking in the support of a powerful ally and traditional U.S. rival, wants Russi...

That title reminds of the very bad horror movie, "Deep Rising". Like that movie, this story sucks, but unlike the movie you can't just get up and leave. As Xanthippas posted recently (like, this morning), the Treasury has decided to focus more on the consumer side of the economy. I'm not an expert, ...

If anybody deserves the death penalty, it's this bastard. Radovan Karadzic, one of the world’s most wanted war criminals for his part in the massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995, was arrested Monday in a raid in Serbia that ended a 13-year hunt. Mr. Karadzic, a nation...

In this blogger's opinion, it's too early for this kind of thing, but oh well. Lloyd Dogget is introducing Nancy Pelosi. He got a warm reception. Now Nancy Pelosi is up and giving kudos to Lloyd Doggett and the staff of Netroots Nation and some others. Lots of media here, expect this to show up on t...

Of course as readers of TWM know, we believe in a healthy skepticism of anything the federal government has to say which contradicts obvious reality. This includes such memes as "The war in Iraq is actually going well", "Afghanistan is actually under control", "The President is a firm believer in th...

I posted on this story last year when it was first reported. It all started when a Wells Fargo personal banker called 911. "We have two males that walked into our branch, possibility of a gun in his pocket," the teller said. "He's sitting down with a personal banker." A second personal banker then p...