Not our usual fare, but you can’t ignore it when an unemployed man living on the dole makes one of the greatest archaeological finds in British history using a metal detector. Our slideshow of the 11 pounds of gold and nearly 6 pounds of silver artifacts, believed to be Anglo-Saxon war loot from the 7th century:
With Sen. Kyl pointing out that men have no interest in having insurance cover child birth, no doubt women will note that they have little interest in covering prostate and testicular cancer. And surely men will get back into the act and want to get out of under the cost of covering breast cancer, which very few men get. Indeed, you can see how everyone should probably insist on special customized insurance policies which cover the ailments they plan on getting and avoid paying for the ones they don’t. As long as everyone plans well and makes good predictions everyone should be able to save a lot of money.
If you’re not living in one of the eleven towns in the South where the new Obama ‘birther’ informercial is running, we’ve prepared this birthermercial highlight reel to bring you up to speed.
If you’re still missing Second City TV from back in the old days, this may bring back some fond memories.
Laura Rozen has some of the tick tock on the President’s apparently hastily planned announcement this morning on Iran’s nuclear program.
Okay, just be warned. There’s no politics or news in this post. But there was so much interest in last night’s post about what computers our readers use, I thought I’d share some more information about browsers.
Be warned, only the geeks among you come any further. Read More
After we published our story about the new ‘birther’ informercial running in a number of local TV markets in the South, a reader wrote in to say: Hey, it’s not funny. This is a deliberate and shameful effort to denigrate and erode people’s belief in the legitimacy of Obama’s presidency.
I was taken aback a bit at first. Because I agree. The mix of nihilism, know-nothingism and racism fueling the birther movement is shocking to behold. But as to funny or shameful, my only quibble is that I’m not sure we have to choose. And it turns out there’s a third option.
You don’t have to look to hard at the informercial to see that while it may be shameful and it may be funny, it pretty clearly looks like an effort to separate a lot of hyped-up birther rubes from their money, quite possibly to pad the wallets of those in the rube hyping business. First of all, the pitch in the informercial is that for a mere $30 you will receive a birther bumper sticker and your name added to a spam fax sent to the Justice Department and the 50 state attorneys general.
But that’s not the only reason. Read More
A bit tongue-in-cheek. But if you take some of the political designations with a grain of salt, it’s not a bad point, from TPM Reader RS …
I have been a mac user since 1985 because I’m a composer and Apple computer has always been the best platform for music, except for a brief period when Steven Jobs created the NeXT computer.
One thing that fascinates me is the way that Apple continues to maintain a cool/benevolent/almost counter-culture reputation, while actually being an incredibly aggressive, ruthless, arguably monopolistic company (the way they are cornering the music and phone businesses, and the way they so carefully guard applications on the iphone). Compare this to Microsoft, which has a more fascist ambiance around it.
Sen. Kyl says the time for talking to Iran and for “carrots” is over “because time is not on our side.” It’s regime change from here on out.
Meanwhile, it is reassuring to see Sec Def Gates state the obvious, which is that there is no military option that does more than buy time.
After all, what would turn the tide in the direction of the moderates and reformers more than a major aerial bombing campaign against Iran?