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Music Review: Hillbilly Harmonies on Robbie Fulks' "When You Get to the Bottom" 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Track 6 "When You Get to the Bottom" From Robbie Fulks' Gone Away Backward Bloodshot Liner notes: "Live it up while you can/But when you get to the bottom/Don't reach for my hand," Robbie Fulks wa...
Watch: The Wild Weather of the Future 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
In this talk, meteorologist and America's "Science Idol" contest winner Tom DiLiberto gives a forecast of the weather of the future—the weather that will be produced by climate change. While some of ...
The Debt Ceiling Is Suddenly Only 8 Weeks Away 27 Aug 2013 | 04:59 am
Remember that debt limit donnybrook we were all expecting this December? Turns out everyone was being a wee bit too optimistic about that: Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew told Congress on Monday that af...
The 9 Wildest Complaints Against Trump University 27 Aug 2013 | 03:31 am
Last Saturday, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced that he was filing a lawsuit against real estate mogul and hair victim Donald Trump, alleging that his Trump University real-estate...
Repeat After Me: Always Adjust for Inflation. Always Adjust for Inflation. 27 Aug 2013 | 12:30 am
If I told you that the American economy grew by more than 50 percent during Jimmy Carter's presidency, you'd probably think I must be pulling a fast one. And you'd be right: inflation was high during ...
Conservatives Are Finally Admitting What Voter Suppression Laws Are All About 26 Aug 2013 | 10:55 pm
North Carolina's new voter ID law is ostensibly designed to reduce voter fraud. That's the official story, anyway. But if that's the case, why did North Carolina also pass a whole bunch of other votin...
Birther John Philip Sousa IV Wants a Tea Party Darling to Run For President 26 Aug 2013 | 09:45 pm
Dr. Ben Carson went from acclaimed Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon to conservative hero when, in February, he rebuked President Obama during a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. With Obama seated a f...
Why Air Strikes Against Syria Probably Won't Work 26 Aug 2013 | 09:36 pm
Over at WorldViews, Max Fisher provides the nickel arguments for and against air strikes against Syria. The case against is pretty straightforward: Air strikes won't change much of anything; there wil...
No, the New York Times Didn't Change Its "Fuck" Policy 26 Aug 2013 | 09:29 pm
On Monday, Salon's Laura Miller reported on an almost mythical creature—an actual F-bomb in the pages of the New York Times. According to Miller, the use of the word "fuck," in an excerpt from Jonatha...
Report Says Russians Knew Edward Snowden Was Headed for Moscow 26 Aug 2013 | 08:18 pm
The Washington Post passes along a report that the arrival of NSA leaker Edward Snowden in Moscow a couple of months ago didn't come as a surprise to Russian officials, as they claimed at the time. In...
