We’ll admit, we have some sympathy for the former Republican leadership and George W. Bush with regards to the “John McCain situation.” It was kind of fun for us communists to see John McCain (occasionally, arbitrarily) challenge the Bush administration on a handful of issues over ...

The episode began at a dinner to celebrate an author’s newest book being published. The author stands to thank the dinner guests and his editor starts trashing him, the book and everyone else. Then he apologizes, starts bleeding from his nose and collapses. House enters his office to find the ...

Reuters: Danish state-controlled oil and natural gas group DONG Energy said on Friday it had awarded Siemens a supply contract for up to 500 offshore wind turbines with a total capacity of up to 1,800 megawatts. The wind turbines will be deployed on DONG Energy's coming offshore wind farms in Northe...

Reuters: Danish state-controlled oil and natural gas group DONG Energy said on Friday it had awarded Siemens a supply contract for up to 500 offshore wind turbines with a total capacity of up to 1,800 megawatts. The wind turbines will be deployed on DONG Energy's coming offshore wind farms in Northe...

Many people assume that morality — our sense of what is “right” and just in this world versus what is wrong — is something we formulate through a process of time, experience and thinking. We equate morality with higher reasoning and not a base instinct like hunger or the need...

Two days after he was romanced by the 49ers via limo and private jet, Kurt Warner agreed to a two-year deal with the Cardinals, ESPN is reporting. What a slut. The Cardinals agreed to Warner's counter-offer of $23 million over two years, with $10 million guaranteed. Warner's agent, Mark Bartelstein,...

The President today released an important memo outlining plans to try to reduce the amount of money lost on the wasteful and abusive government contracting industry that conservatives love: Since 2001, spending on Government contracts has more than doubled, reaching over $500 billion in 2008. During...

Just a grumble from the 38 week pregnant camp... Thank you, mostly painless contractions, for driving me craaazy. About every other one of these is uncomfortable, the rest I notice but don't make me think twice. ARG. I wish my body would either say, "labor, yes!" or "let's rest and quit with this pr...

Last night I was super upset over some family drama and I had a few painful contractions (I'm 27 weeks 1 day). They lasted about 1-2 minutes and were like 10 minutes apart. After I calmed down they stopped, but it still scared the hell out of me. I've been having normal braxton hicks ...

By Eric Goldman I didn't have a chance to blog on the Facebook user agreement amendment flap in real-time, but now that Facebook has rolled back its amendments and everyone is catching their breath, the Monday morning quarterbacking is proceeding in full earnest. Some of the articles that caught my ...