Consider a country where banking interests balloon debt by lending to people who cannot possibly pay back their loans. These toxic assets then threaten to destroy the national economy. Banking interests plead with the civil government to rescue them for the sake of the economy. The civil government bails them out with taxpayer money. Sound […]
Continue reading →About a week ago, David Lee Edwards died in hospice. He was 58, completely bankrupt, divorced, miserable, and strung out from addictions and hard living. He had spent a year or so before that living in a storage shed surrounded by his waste. Rewind to 2001. David Lee Edwards was an ex-con living in his […]
Continue reading →A fairly recent study conducted in China points out an extraordinary link between abortion and breast cancer. Apparently, having an abortion increases a woman’s chances of breast cancer by nearly 50%, and the percentage grows higher with every abortion. In a country like ours where everyone from military personnel to football players wear pink in […]
Continue reading →A few years ago, a company called Genentech developed a cancer treatment it called Avastin. Avastin was a very expensive and dubiously effective cancer treatment, but it turned out to be great at treating Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration—an eye disease that causes blindness in older patients. Another plus—an extraordinarily small dose of Avastin was sufficient […]
Continue reading →According to an article published in PR Watch, Google is giving “substantial” grants to some high-profile right-wing political groups. Corporations are not required to post details concerning their grants and subsidies, but Google decided in 2010 to start voluntarily posting a selection from their grant budget. The figures are interesting, to say the least. Some […]
Continue reading →Recently, Team Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services had a YouTube contest (they’re so hip and media-savvy) to promote Obamacare to young people. They recently crowned a winner: a video entitled Forget About the Price Tag. There is no tongue in cheek here. This video, which you can watch here if you have the […]
Continue reading →WebMD, the world’s second-most-popular website for health advice, has very quietly secured a government contract in which it agrees to promote Obamacare and educate doctors about it. Representatives of the website have argued that this does not constitute a conflict of interest, since WebMD would be allowed autonomy to present its own take on medical […]
Continue reading →Daniel Defense sells guns. They had this crazy idea that Super Bowl viewers might be members of the demographic that buys guns. So they looked up the Super Bowl’s stated guidelines for advertisements, and they made a commercial they thought fit the guidelines. Nope. The Super Bowl rejected the ad, and pretty unequivocally. The ad, […]
Continue reading →An article in the Los Angeles Times points out a problem that few proponents of green energy have considered: the existing power grid was not designed to deal with the fluctuations and unpredictability of green energy power sources. As it is, the power grid is an extraordinarily complex and fragile system. An array of highly-trained […]
Continue reading →I’ve got a little joke for you: If “pro-” is the opposite of “con-,” what is the opposite of “progress”? Anyway… if only every Congress were as unproductive as the 113th Congress has been. It has been so monumentally torpid that it is being dubbed “the Do-Nothing Congress.” The Washington Post reports: According to congressional records, […]
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