James G. Cummings a millionaire and Nazi sympathizer was killed by his wife last December. He reportedly was upset with the election of Barack Obama and had bought depleted uranium with the goal to construct a dirty bomb. Why are......

Why is it that whenever there is a crisis working class people not only have to pay to bail out the rich people, but they must also take the pay cuts while the people who caused the problems get bonuses? This is no more clear then with the case of Pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger. This Union Pilot...

I started to write this post last week but got sidetracked. Maybe it was for the best because we have a follow-up today that actually makes my point for me. Last week David Brooks wrote a standard piece of conservative claptrap 'bout how - and this is his own description - "the ...

Bob Sutton: The Enron Code of Ethics: Something Every Boss Should Read - My hypothesis is that the longer a code of ethics in a company, the more likely they are too be sleazeballs. As I've heard my father-in-law say many times, when people talk about ethics and morals more than seems necessary,...

Inside a Congolese Displaced Persons Camp - photo by Georgianne Nienaber Nkunda’s Pilgrimage of Reconciliation The YouTube video is amateurish and grainy, but the images are irrefutable testimony. The date is August 6, 2006 in the tiny village of Nyamitabo in eastern Congo—a region where warfare...

One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He crawled out of bed and turned on the TV, only to discover that everyone in the U. S. had suffered the same fate. Indeed, as The Politico was reporting, Ame...

Balloon Juice's John Cole got in on one of those WaPo chat things with Sheilagh Murray, the WaPo's National Political Reporter, the other day and asked her if she thought maybe George Will's stupidity maybe just possibly "lessened the prestige" of the paper? Shailagh Murr...

There seems to be somewhat of a pattern here: A neocon who has had problems dealing with a non-white non-conservative running the country was slain by his wife (he was also a serial spouse abuser - funny how that seems to go with the neocon mindset so often…) before he could try and get his di...

. There’s been much hand wringing in the cartoon world the past few weeks. Village Voice Media, publisher of many alternative weekly newspapers, has “temporarily” suspended publishing comics in all its papers due to shrinking budgets. Max Cannon goes so far to suggest that the comi...

From The EAT THE RICH FilesI'd say 'How sweet it is' but the reality is more along the lines of 'It's about fucking time, what took you guys so long?!!?!'I think this rant from Wonkette Commentator AngryBlakGuy sums up the......