From a drive-by commenter in OT we get Why do you still use the image of the twin towers? time for a change I think. That question is exactly why the image is still there. The hole in Manhattan is still there. The leaders are mostly still there. The paymasters are still there. The isolationists are ...

Chavez orders army to seize Venezuela rice mills Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Saturday sent troops to temporarily take over rice processing plants in the South American nation, his toughest move against industry since a referendum win this month. … Chavez accused the companies of disru...

Video of alleged deputy assault released Couple of cops beat a handcuffed teenage girl. See the video. (The video is also on the king5 page, but it didn’t work when I tried it.) Here’s the sweet part: The pig’s attorney didn’t want the video released “because it does no...

What do Harry Reid, Al Gore, and the earth all have in common? They open their cracks and let out noxious gases. Whether devastating faults, dank caves or mud cracks on a drying desert plain, Earth’s surface is riddled with fractures. Now a new study had found that the cracks exhale large quan...

From the National Snow and Ice Data Center, the people who told us the North Pole would be as bald as Britney Spears’s head by summer: Satellite sensor errors cause data outage As some of our readers have already noticed, there was a significant problem with the daily sea ice data images on Fe...

New Kindle Audio Feature Causes a Stir Some publishers and agents expressed concern over a new, experimental feature that reads text aloud with a computer-generated voice. “They don’t have the right to read a book out loud,” said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild....

So, President Notmypresident is apparently yakking on all the networks. Even if I watched TV and had a digital converter box, which I don’t, I have no interest in watching a talking head read words someone else wrote about a topic that is likely to piss me off anyway. But I’m not going t...

FDA lacks access to food safety records The U.S. Food and Drug Administration lacks access to food safety tests that could have helped identify problems at a peanut plant at the center of one of the biggest food recalls in U.S. history, members of Congress said on Thursday. Yep, just give the tirele...

DPers, we seem to have a shortage of dipshits coming to play and be abused. And an utter lack of dipshits who will come back to be abused again. One way to address this is to bring in more dipshits. Anyone got any ideas for getting more links from Salon or Kos or similar? Another approach would be f...

If the state can’t save us, we need a licence to print our own money But I want to introduce you to another way of negotiating a credit crunch, which requires no moral hazard, no hair of the dog and no public spending.… In his book The Future of Money, Lietaer points out - as the govern...