This is one hell of a testimony: The pastor of a Maryville, Illinois, church was shot to death during a service Sunday in front of horrified parishoners who then tackled the gunman, state police said. Fred Winters, the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Maryville, Illinois, was shot and killed du...

From The Big Picture, “For about 100% of the market value of Citi, plus insurance guarantees worth of as much as 500% of its value (~$275 billion), we got less than 1/10 of a company that in total was worth 1/5 of our investment.” ### Possibly related posts: Blog-linked firings I work fo...

John Cole knocks it out of the park today connecting the first scene of the first season of The Wire to the truly maddening situation of people responsible for this mess capitalizing on said mess. Suspect: I’m sayin’, every Friday night in an alley behind the Cut Rate, we rollin’ bones, you kn...

When a dead guy gets whipped with a car antenna by a crazy woman at his funeral, that reminds me that deep down, we're all just one synapse away from going totally fucking nuts. My goal in writing is to outcrazy the crazy, to raise the bar on batshit nuttery in 100 words every single day. But would ...

You got served: The International Criminal Court in The Hague on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on charges of crimes against humanity, war crimes. The warrant does not include charges of genocide. It should. Hopefully, the warrant will be delivered on the ti...

If Chrysler can't get this shit straightened out, fuck 'em. Let them fail. Let them go bankrupt. Let their factories burn, their dealership network collapse, and their employees crawl starving and naked through the burning sands. A guy has $24,000 in his hand and is ready to buy. He has been told th...

Robert Mugabe fiddles while Rome burns, throwing a 85th birthday bash for himself: Zhuwawo said about 100 beasts would be slaughtered for the birthday bash. Sadly, they were not Mugabe and his genocidal henchmen. Zimbabwe doesn't have a chance as long as Mugabe or anyone who follows him continues to...

Attaboy! The leader of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in the Turkish Parliament, Ahmet Turk, created a major controversy when, on Tuesday, he became only the second person in history to speak Kurdish in the Turkish parliament, causing the state-run TRT TV channel to stop its live fee...

What does this say about the future of The Big Three automakers, when most of those tasked to rescue them aren't even their customers? I wonder how many of them have cash stashed away in Switzerland under UBS, eh....

He's a liar: U.S. Sen. Roland Burris now acknowledges attempting to raise money for ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich — an explosive twist in his ever-changing story on how he landed a coveted Senate appointment from the man accused of trying to sell the seat. Burris made the admission to reporters on M...