Live from the Nuke Free Zone

The Republicans are the most sectarian party this country has ever seen, but their religion apparently doesn’t have a commandment about lying.  Obviously attempting to claim they supported a minimum wage increase, they have announced their intention to bring to the floor of the House a bill that would do exactly that, and in unrelated […]

The White House draft rules for trying detainees in light of the Supreme Court’s recent decision on the matter… basically ignores the Supreme Court’s recent decision on the matter.  It’s essentially asking Congress to say it’s okay to continue doing the same things.  Pick your favorite news site, they’ll all be carrying it.
What I want […]

Hey, fans of vouchers! Hi there, charter school boosters! It sure is great to want the best education for your child. So guess what your hard-earned money is buying when you starve public schools of funds and send the kid to private school?
The Education Department reported on Friday that children in public schools generally performed […]

Paralyzed Man Uses Thoughts to Move a Cursor
So now a guy with a chip in his head can play Pong. It took 20 years to go from Pong (1972) to the Web (1991), 25 years for the Web to be serious business. At that rate, I should be jacking in sometime in my early 50s. […]

We often say that issues like same-sex marriage, immigration, flag-burning and the like are issues promoted solely to arouse desired voters.  The implication is that this is unwise, and we would rather our legislators ran on (and spent their governing time on) issues already important to us.  Very well then…
1) What do people actually care […]