Love Brigade Clothing - Summer of Love Brigade Tank
This shirt belongs on Tumblr. Nice work, Tinypants!
via The Daily Kos
Between 1979 and 2007, average after-tax incomes for the top 1 percent rose by 281 percent after adjusting for inflation — an increase in income of $973,100 per household — compared to increases of 25 percent ($11,200 per household) for the middle fifth of households and 16 percent ($2,400 per household) for the bottom fifth (see Figure 1).
BP's tree fell on my lawn - Roger Ebert's Journal
Great commentary on the BP disaster by Roger Ebert. Some of my favorite paragraphs include:
All this seems clear to me. In my view, the overall neocon strategy for quite some time has come down to this: Maximize corporate profits in disregard of legal and traditional safeguards by all means necessary. Now that Paul Wolfowitz has written that the Iraq War was about oil, not WMD, a decade of obfuscation has been discarded. We are still fighting there. And in Afghanistan. where we are now told the Taliban has been advised and assisted for years by the Pakistan Secret Service. We give $8 billion a year in aid to Pakistan. In some sense, we are subsidizing our enemies.
and also:
Standard Oil was the largest corporation in the world. It was thought to have grown too large. It was the target of such Trust Busters as Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. It was broken up by U.S. courts under the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1880. A U. S. Supreme Court decision in 1911 upheld that decision. One of Standard’s offshoots was the Chevron Corporation. Another was known as Standard Oil and then Amoco, until Amoco was absorbed by BP. What do you think the chances are today of BP attracting antitrust attention, and modern Trust Busters being upheld by the Supreme Court? See what I mean? Our values have changed.
The 400 of us [here] pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If you’re in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
- Buffett blasts system that lets him pay less tax than secretary - Times Online Mr Buffett said that he was taxed at 17.7 per cent on the $46 million he made last year, without trying to avoid paying higher taxes, while his secretary, who earned $60,000, was taxed at 30 per cent. Okay I know it’s 3 years old but I love this quote and it’s totally relevant to the discussion of whether or not to let the Bush tax cuts expire at the end of the year. Yeah, okay, everyone hates taxes, but let’s be fair and responsible.
New U.S. rules allow for unapproved iPhone apps - USATODAY.com
Owners of the iPhone will be able to legally break electronic locks on their devices in order to download software applications that haven’t been approved by Apple, according to new U.S. government rules announced Monday.
Because if there’s something hackers are all concerned about, it’s staying within the confines of the law according to the end user agreement.
Rachel Maddow Whacks Fox News for Their Massive Flip-Flop on the Sherrod Firing Incident (via sjcpal)
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!
Oh, Fox News.
This is the closest thing to The Daily Show we’re gonna get this week, so enjoy it!
Reblogged from Robot Heart: Sex, Religion, and Politics.
The Sun Chronicle, a Massachusetts paper, will charge would-be commenters a nominal one-off fee of 99 cents. But it has to be paid by credit card, which means providing a real name and address.
And the name on the credit card will be the name that will appear on comments. So it’s goodbye to anonymity.
- US newspaper to charge website commenters (via nikf) I’m thinking about doing this to some of the dogster/catster blogs. Well not charging, but requiring that people post a link to their pet’s page. Amazing how many people post anonymously when they have something mean to say not realizing their IP gives them away. (via tedr) I confess I haven’t yet thought it fully, but tentatively, I am in full support of this. If you can be tentatively in full support of something. Which is also how I feel about Tron Legacy. (via rickwebb) Who knew that Attleboro MA would suddenly be so forward thinking. Certainly not my grandma, who lives there and still doesn’t own a computer.
Reblogged from rickwebb's tumblrmajig.
Taking Web Humor Seriously, Sort Of - NYTimes.com
An article about ROFLCon in the NYTimes!?! HOORAY! But, just like any internet meme, is it still funny and cool if it’s popular?? ;)
Shakedown: A dance party in every air-conditioned room - On The Download
SATURDAY 07.17 | VIDEODROME @ Common Ground | The House That Mod Night Built has been remixed into shiny sequins and ’70s disco beats. Not only does DJ/VJ Craig MacNeil spin the vintage pop — from Klaus Nomi to Bob Welch, with modern dashes of Gaga and Kylie — he also fills the multiple screens with classic and lost TV footage. Try not to stare, it is a dance party.
YAY CRAIG!!
Why Parents Hate Parenting -- New York Magazine
Before urbanization, children were viewed as economic assets to their parents. If you had a farm, they toiled alongside you to maintain its upkeep; if you had a family business, the kids helped mind the store. But all of this dramatically changed with the moral and technological revolutions of modernity. As we gained in prosperity, childhood came increasingly to be viewed as a protected, privileged time, and once college degrees became essential to getting ahead, children became not only a great expense but subjects to be sculpted, stimulated, instructed, groomed. (The Princeton sociologist Viviana Zelizer describes this transformation of a child’s value in five ruthless words: “Economically worthless but emotionally priceless.”) Kids, in short, went from being our staffs to being our bosses.
Make kids work in the farms! Kill two birds with one stone, people!! (Take note TakeOurJobs.org)
Ladies don’t like sleeping on bricks. They like duvets and high thread counts. More cushion.
So true. So true. ;)
(But I DO love the smell of Old Spice too.)
“Dark Night Of The Soul” was originally the title of a 16th century spiritual work by a Christian monk describing the painful journey made after life into the eternal love of God. But we can set that aside now, for after a long dispute with their record label, this ineffable album by Danger Mouse and the late Sparklehorse has come to light.
This album sounds awesome. But I’m a bit overwhelmed to just now learn that Sparklehorse shot himself with a rifle in the heart. WTF??? So sad. :(
Rachel Maddow interviews Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, about the complexities in Afghanistan.
Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, talks with Rachel Maddow about pruning some of the names from the U.N. terrorism list.
