One of the most outside-the-box privacy activist plans to disrupt NSA surveillance: shut off their water supply so they can’t cool their computers. Or presumably, drink or hydrate themselves.
When someone of Nelson Mandela’s stature, historic significance and personal greatness dies, there’s really nothing to say for most of us that isn’t trite or unneeded. That seems especially so in this case in which Mandela’s passing has elements of a blessing in human terms, given his great age and deep enfeeblement and apparent suffering. But after a day of absorbing this expected news, there is one thing I would like to add: violence. And I mean that in a good way.
Did your favorite Republican lose his R-card this morning for praising Mandela on Facebook? Must read about where some of America still lives.
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With Obamacare coverage kicking in Jan. 1, some conservative doctors are going so far as to refuse to accept all private insurance.
One such doctor tells TPM that Obamacare raises the specter of government scientists falsifying research to help keep down the cost of Obamacare.
Santorum: Fight against Obamacare like Mandela’s battle against Apartheid.
For Obama supporters, if there was one thing sweeter on election night than the President’s reelection, it was Fox News collective and very public meltdown with Karl Rove practically threatening to take the Fox News election counters hostage until they admitted that Romney could still win Ohio. David Folkenflik has written a new book about the Murdoch media empire where all this stuff gets discussed, some of the details of which he’s been sharing with us this week in TPMCafe Book Club. Here’s part of his look at that golden night …
Nelson Mandela has died, South African President Jacob Zuma is announcing on worldwide TV. Mandela was 95.
Pass the popcorn. Wingnut Georgia Senate candidate Rep. Paul Brown bashes conservative Georgia Senate candidate Jack Kingston as Obamacare-curious.
It’s amazing we’re still dealing with this nonsense.
A plan to build a monument to Union soldiers at the site of the biggest Civil War battle in Florida (The Battle of Olustee) has hit a snag. A group of neo-confederate whackjobs are pledging a ‘second battle of Olustee’ to prevent building on this “hallowed grown [sic] where Southern blood was spilled in defense of Florida.”