This is an amazing statistic, though admittedly you’ve got to be a bit of a computer geek to appreciate it and also probably have to have been around for the 1990s. But here’s the number. Only 56.81% of visits to TPM (November 2011) come from devices or computers using the windows operating system.

For points of reference that number was 75% in Nov.2007. And it’s fallen steadily each year since. By most standards that’s a pretty precipitous drop. Read More

Occupy DC protestors tonight took over the headquarters of Brookfield Properties, the owners own Zuccotti Park. Here’s the video.

Well, I guess that mystery’s over: top GOPer on super committee says no new taxes at all in any super committee deal.

Not content to merely broadcast the GOP presidential debates as a public service, the cable and broadcast nets have tried to outdo each other by pumping up the volume with intros that combine WWE’s carnival style with Dancing With The Stars‘ faux glitz, leavened by a heavy dose of schmaltzy Americana. Almost too much to bear.