Categories: Current Affairs, Legal Nonsense, Mainstream Media Narcolepsy, War on Christmas, Why my God is better than your God (or your non-God)
Cash4Gold and it's creative business model
by Graham 
...now being discussed in Consumerist, which is reporting on elaborate legal actions being mounted by Cash4Gold to silence ex-employees. more »
09/09/09 04:26:12 pm, Weekend Round-up
by Graham
Courtesy of the Guardian newspaper, some revelations about unscrupulous shit-like behaviour from Richard Nixon, who spent a lot of time and energy trying to dig dirt on Senator Edward Kennedy in case he ran against him in the 1972 Presidential election.… more »
More pathological lies by a thwarted Christian
by Graham
The article explains it very neatly:
Gordon Klingenschmitt is a far-right Christian fundamentalist who claims he sacrificed his 16-year career in the military and a million dollar pension because he was targeted for praying publicly in Jesus’ name while… more »
The fetid stink of media and commentator double standards
by Graham
Eric Boehlert in Media Matters has gotten around to neatly summarizing what I concluded many moons ago - the mass media and commentators in this country are a bunch of myopic, biased fools. As he reminds us:
As early as June 2003, The New York Times was… more »
The Healthcare debate - the role of Framing
by Graham
George Lakoff, whose book "Moral Politics" comes the closest of any book I have read to explaining why so many people have been persuaded to vote for policies that are against their own best interests, has a powerful new article on Huffington Post explai… more »
The downside of running for public office...
by Graham
...is that your past is going to be investigated, and if you have been remiss in your business or professional dealings, you will have questions to answer.
Former KIRO-TV Susan Hutchison, now running for political office in King County in Washington, p… more »
We finally have an excuse to rival "the dog ate my homework"...
by Graham
Wait for it...courtesy of the Guardian newspaper:
A Florida man says his cat downloaded child pornography.
Police are charging Keith Griffin of Jensen Beach, Florida with 10 counts of possession of child pornography after finding more than 1,000 images… more »
Just to remind myself of the phenomenon of the binge-drinking Brit
by Graham
...I was jerked back to UK reality after spending some time reviewing the attempts by fascists to disrupt US politician town halls, by this reminder that in the UK we have a related version of bad behaviour in the form of drunken tourists. This article i… more »
Idiots Of The Day Award
by Graham
#1 Orly Taitz
The rather eccentric lawyer (but only in CA via a correspondence course) appeared on MSNBC today to answer the rather pertinent question of why she is submitting as evidence in a court filing a "copy" of a Kenya birth certficate for Bara… more »
The Professor Gates - Officer Crowley incident
by Graham
This recent incident, where Officer Crowley arrested a Harvard professor for disorderly conduct, only to have the local prosecutors pretty quickly drop the charges, is fascinating on a number of levels.
Having read (directly or indirectly) the accounts… more »