White House hits back at Cheney, blames Bush for security failures Raw Story By Daniel Tencer December 30th, 2009 ‘Obama doesn’t need to beat his chest’ to prove US is at war, White House says The White House has issued a stinging rebuke to Dick Cheney after the former vice president accused President Barack Obama […]
A brilliant button for your browser toolbar that actually works: The Pogie Awards for the Year’s Best Tech Ideas New York Times By DAVID POGUE December 30, 2009 READABILITY: The single best tech idea of 2009, though, the real life-changer, has got to be Readability. It’s a free button for your Web browser’s toolbar [get […]
Move Your Money: A New Year’s ResolutionHuffington Postby Arianna Huffington and Rob Johnson12/29/2009 Too-big-to-fail banks are profiting from bailout dollars and government guarantees, and growing bigger. Tell us which community bank you use, and why. Last week, over a pre-Christmas dinner, the two of us, along with political strategist Alexis McGill, filmmaker/author Eugene Jarecki, and […]
Among the news stories you run across as a news junkie, there occasionally is one that is so unexpected that it makes all the time wasted worth it. This one is such a story. I guess you could discount it as an attempt by the opposition to smear the Ayatollah, but it has a ring […]
Rush Limbaugh rushed to Honolulu hospital with chest pains Washington Post.com By Anne E. Kornblut December 31, 2009 HONOLULU – Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was brought by ambulance to a hospital here on Wednesday after experiencing chest pains, according to a local television station. Most of the island’s focus over the holidays has […]
Dick Cheney’s lies about President Obama Washington Post By Eugene Robinson December 31, 2009 It’s pathetic to break a New Year’s resolution before we even get to New Year’s Day, but here I go. I had promised myself that I would do a better job of ignoring Dick Cheney’s corrosive and nonsensical outbursts – that […]
It started off with the Y2K issue. Originally, that was about the use of 2 digit year designations in computer programs that might produce some screwy results. But then it turned into some kind of craziness that had people stockpiling food and ammo for the coming cataclysm [type unspecified]. Then came the presidential campaigns and […]
Mike Allen, Cheney’s Chief Spokesman The Daily Dish Andrew Sullivan 30 Dec 2009 There he goes again, the mouthpiece for Rove and Cheney, believing his "access" as a stenographer makes him a journalist. It doesn’t. It makes him a stenographer. Allen gussies up his source’s bile with a few fig leaf sentences and a gesture […]
So what’s an old man to do nursing a bad Middle Eastern cold on a gray cold day when the news is gloomy and the concentration center is too viral to read a book or watch tv? Orbitz Golf is the most I can muster. It kept popping up at random times, so I ran […]