Watson, the supercomputer best known for beating Ken Jennings, the uberchamp on Jeopardy, has signed on for a new job: working with Wellpoint to provide patient care to the insurance providers customers.
One of the big outstanding questions is why Kinde Durkee, the California Democratic campaign treasurer accused of mismanaging and embezzling perhaps dozens of her client accounts, wasn’t caught sooner.
Feds say AK ‘Sovereign Citizen’ militia leader boasted of ‘nifty’ bombs, lasers, boats and more.
Perry goes into damage control mode as he realizes that Social Security remarks pose grave damage to his campaign.
Simple as that. Pawlenty endorses Romney, joins campaign.
On most of the anniversaries of 9/11 over the last ten years, I’ve linked to a short report I filed for Salon.com within a couple hours of the attack from the streets in my then-neighborhood in Washington, DC. You can read it here, search for the word “bizarre.” It’s a page of numerous dispatches from different locations on that morning ten years ago.
I generally do not have much to say on these anniversaries. For me what seems most fitting is just silence. I have nothing more than the obvious to add to the discussion. I did read one piece that was disturbing and deeply affecting, a report that brought me back to that morning in a way I’d never been there before. You can read it here. It’s about the people who jumped/fell that morning from the Towers. Don’t read it unless you’re ready. It’s not easy. Read More
TPM’s Benjy Sarlin was in high school, a few blocks from the World Trade Center, on Sept. 11, 2001. He writes about two of his classmates and the paths they took after 9/11, for The Atlantic.