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Do You Need a Hug? By Maria Bustillos | May 16, 2013 In a world where so much has gone horribly wrong, this outcry against hugging is just about the most unbelievable thing I have ever seen. Of all the things to take against! This is not to say that I would care to [...] Patent lawyers: Help! The evil “Makers” won’t let us apply for bullshit 3D printing patents! Cory Doctorow at 6:10 am Sun, May 19, 2013
Two minor characters from my novel Makers have apparently come to life and written an article for 3D Printing Industry. These two people are patent [...] Why Should Any Of These Groups Have Tax-Exempt Status? – by Jared Bernstein May 14, 2013 at 9:20 am Nope, I’m not going to defend the IRS, which appears to have acted in ways wholly inconsistent with their mandate for unbiased investigations into, in this case, whether certain political groups should receive tax-exempt status. It [...] Has Your Health Professional Received Drug Company Money?
Name State All States Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New [...] DABS: THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL AND SOUGHT AFTER WEED PRODUCT – By Matt Harvey | May 15, 2013 – 11:00AM Across the country, from legal 21-and-over Denver dispensaries to black-market NYC delivery services, steeply priced strains of “killer bud”—so thick with tricome crystals they shimmer like snow-covered pine trees—are readily available. OG Ghost Train Haze, [...] Dear friends, Pfc. Bradley Manning has been enduring a court-martial for well over a year now and in that time I have been covering the proceedings at Fort Meade extensively. That coverage has been possible because of you. Every dollar donated to help fund coverage of Bradley Manning has helped transform me into a foremost [...] POLITICS MAY 13, 2013 It wasn’t the agency’s targeting of conservative groups, but which of those groups it targeted BY ALEC MACGILLIS in the New Republic Imagine for a moment: You work at an Internal Revenue Service back office in the Midwest. No, you are not in a posthumously published David Foster Wallace novel. [...] Syrian Electronic Army Has A Little Fun Before Inevitable Upcoming Deaths At Hands Of Rebels News in Brief • Syria • News • ISSUE 49•19 • May 6, 2013 DAMASCUS, SYRIA—After hacking into The Onion’s Twitter account earlier today, members of the Syrian Electronic Army confirmed that the organization simply wanted to have a little [...] (Except from his article in the National Review – May 2013) The Goldberg File By Jonah Goldberg May 10, 2013 … It’s Always ‘Old News’ The most frustrating thing about Democratic scandals is the eye-rolling. Liberals feign ennui the way French princesses would yawn when the court jester failed to amuse. They act as if [...] How to Turn a World Lacking in Enemies into the Most Threatening Place in the Universe By Tom Engelhardt – April 15th, 2013 The communist enemy, with the “world’s fourth largest military,” has been trundling missiles around and threatening the United States with nuclear obliteration. Guam, Hawaii, Washington: all, it claims, are targetable. The [...]
The Hollowing Out of Government by Robert Reich Saturday, May 4, 2013
The West, Texas chemical and fertilizer plant where at least 15 were killed and more than 200 injured a few weeks ago hadn’t been fully inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration since 1985. (A partial inspection in 2011 [...] The Lessons of the North Atlantic Crisis for Economic Theory and Policy Posted on May 3, 2013 by iMFdirect Guest post by: Joseph E. Stiglitz Columbia University, New York, and co-host of the Conference on Rethinking Macro Policy II: First Steps and Early Lessons In analyzing the most recent financial crisis, we can benefit somewhat [...] New Device Can Extract Human DNA With Full Genetic Data in Minutes via Science Digest – May 6, 2013 — Take a swab of saliva from your mouth and within minutes your DNA could be ready for analysis and genome sequencing with the help of a new device.University of Washington [...]
Why I Oppose the Internet Tax Bill – By Sen. Ted Cruz – May 5, 2013 Basic tenets of economics dictate that when you tax something, you get less of it. That’s why it’s incomprehensible that the U.S. Senate is moving to raise taxes on one of the brightest sectors of our struggling [...] Google Glass Is Already This Broken by REBECCA GREENFIELD 21,291 Views MAY 1, 2013 – via The Atlantic Wire As the shine wears off the first sparkling new Google Glass headsets out in the wild, the earliest of adopters have started to discover myriad problems with the wearable computers. Beyond aesthetics, professional Glass reviewers [...] Sean Wilentz | The Worst President in History? The Worst President in History? By Sean Wilentz Rolling Stone Friday 21 April 2006 One of America’s leading historians assesses George W. Bush. (Illustration by Robert Grossman) George W. Bush’s presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace. Barring a cataclysmic event on the order of the [...] Note: (GMWAFS Department) The Waleska Award Program has chosen Bizmarts for the 2013 Waleska Awards in the Used Computers classification. For most companies, this recognition is a result of your dedication and efforts as well as the work of others in your organization that have helped build your business. Your team is now a [...] Note: Much has been made of the Presidential ritual of paying tribute to fallen military personnel who arrive back in caskets at Dover Air Force Base. There is a long history of such tributes in our Nation’s past, including Lincoln’s Gettysburg address; but in modern times we’ve had two Presidents who met with the families [...] Big Bang Didn’t Need God… Rod Pyle, SPACE.com Contributor Date: 17 April 2013 Time: 01:34 PM ET Dr. Stephen Hawking is brought onstage by a helper to give his presentation, “The Origin of the Universe,” at Caltech on April 16, 2013. CREDIT: Rod Pyle/SPACE.com View full size image PASADENA, Calif. — Our [...] (Calvin & Hobbes – by Bill Watterson – Apr. 29th, 2013)
The 1 Percent’s Solution
By PAUL KRUGMAN – N.Y. Times – Published: April 25, 2013 421 Comments Economic debates rarely end with a T.K.O. But the great policy debate of recent years between Keynesians, who advocate sustaining and, indeed, increasing government spending in a depression, and austerians, who demand immediate spending cuts, [...] Research Paper Claims That Microsoft Excel Coding Error Is Behind The Reinhart-Rogoff Study On Debt Mike Konczal, NewDeal2.0 | Apr. 16, 2013, 12:40 PM | 85,531 | URL – Mike Konczal is an expert in financial engineering and the editor of the financial blog Rortybomb In 2010, economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff released [...] College Drops N.C.A.A. Sports in Favor of Increased Fitness Above, a warm-up before a recent five-kilometer run-walk at Spelman. By MIKE TIERNEY – Published: April 13, 2013 ATLANTA — The softball bats and golf clubs have been stored away. All is quiet, too, at the basketball gymnasium, the volleyball [...] Note: From the bowels of the National Review comes another episode of eloquent trash entitled “The Goldberg File” The Goldberg File By Jonah Goldberg April 12, 2013 Dear Reader (including those of you still languishing behind the veil of ignorance), So earlier this week MSNBC released one of its “Lean Forward” ads, this time [...] Note: Yet again there is a spike in political trash talking about the Social Security program. A casual observer could assume this is the most important socio-political topic in America, based on the frequency and scale of commentary that periodically saturate the social networks about it. Unfortunately, like on many topics, a lot of what [...] by Richard @ Bizmarts As a grandfather of three younguns’ I took especial interest in US Government Savings Bonds – by passing these on to the kids at important stages of their lives. I believed it was important for kids to internalize the notion that the act of saving for the future was important. [...] Note: For troglodytes like me who prefer a laptop to a tablet or smartphone in my trucks and for on-site work, the ubiquity of a WiFi signal cannot be depended on, so many of us succumb to the telco’s “data plan” offerings. Unfortunately due to a wimpish FCC, and a lack of suitable competition, the [...] by Richard @ Bizmarts – Apr. 2013 As a professional computer tech for over 20 years it has been my distinct displeasure to have been asked on numerous occasions for a “step-by-step” cheat-sheet for client interaction with computers and I.T. equipment. I always try to avoid this request like the plague, for one very simple [...] |
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