Silver: Politico cofounders lack “curiosity for the world outside of the bubble.”
The future of advertising is definitely creating ads like this that are so awesome that people like me are are mind-controlled into posting them in my blog even when the big corporation isn’t paying anything for posting it.
If you’re a Trek fan you have to watch … Read More
A fashion spread featuring models posing as famous women writers … at the moment of each woman’s notorious suicide … gets Vice in hot water.
Politico cofounder lashes out at Nate Silver for trying to prove things with math.
Immigration reform appears to be swirling down the drain in the House which is preparing to vote later today to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
In commenting on our story this morning about the Senate intelligence committee invoking a non-disclosure agreement to prevent a former staffer from talking to us about the way congressional oversight of the intelligence community works — or doesn’t work — Steven Aftergood raises an additional point: “One problematic aspect of congressional oversight of intelligence that is not often addressed is the heavy, disproportionate representation of former intelligence community employees … among the professional staff of the oversight committees.” Read More
Mitch McConnell: You want to go nuclear on filibuster reform — then look out on Obamacare, Keystone, ANWR and the estate tax.
Returning to his roots, Rand Paul pushes the hard anti-immigration agenda.
Here’s a sort of bewildering, looking glass sort of story that illustrates just how deep the secrecy goes in the entire intel process. As part of the on-going Snowden story we were preparing a piece on the intelligence oversight process itself – particularly the mechanics of just how the congressional oversight committees work. Observers and critics have long argued that classified briefings are so circumscribed and controlled – often with members unable to bring their more technically knowledgable staffers along – that the process of oversight becomes more nominal than real. We spoke to a number of sources for the story and one was a former General Counsel of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. And in the process of this reporting the Intel Committee forbade her from describing how the classified briefings are run. Mind you, not any actual classified material or information. Just the procedures of the classified briefings themselves, stuff like what members are allowed to ask and stuff like that. Here’s the story.
Earlier I posted a link to this incredible slideshow of the tunnels and caverns being excavated out of the bedrock under New York City for a new subway line and how they looked like moonscapes or the lunar excavations from 2001. TPM Reader TT explains for us just why they look that way …
The pictures of the 2nd Avenue Subway excavation are indeed impressive, and to someone like me, who has worked on mass excavation public works projects, they are nearly equivalent to porn (ok, maybe the sports section, or Car & Driver).
However, there’s a very specific reason why the walls and ceilings of the tunnels and stations look like “moonscapes”. That is not Manhattan Island bedrock, but rather the concrete which will cover it in perpetuity once those tunnels and stations are completed.