Editors’ Blog - 2013
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06.12.13 | 10:55 am
This Should Be Entertaining

Rep. King calls for jailing of Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald calls King a supporter of terrorism. And the kicker is that Greenwald’s at least half right.

06.12.13 | 12:44 pm
What’s With This Kid?

I’ve got a really high threshold when it comes to things said by politician’s teenage children. But when they’re going by the online handle ‘n1ggerkiller’ and spouting anti-Semitic and homophobic slurs I think that passes the threshold.

06.12.13 | 1:39 pm
Curious

I’m curious whether Greenwald/Guardian declined to publish Snowden’s new claims about US hacking in Hong Kong and mainland China, which appeared in the South China Morning Post.

06.12.13 | 3:45 pm
Great Moments in Rebranding

Maine Republican says men’s brains more focused on health care costs.

06.13.13 | 5:07 am
Toss Up!

Markey up over Gomez by 12.

06.13.13 | 6:55 am
Great

Because I have people I know who are affected it (and frankly we all do or will) I could not be happier that the Supreme Court, unanimously, has struck down a private company’s ability to patent a naturally occurring gene in your body.

There is certainly a place for modalities that incentive critical research that can save lives. But the idea that naturally-occurring genes (the existence of which can be critical to your health) can be patented and thus owned was simply a crazy path to go down.

06.13.13 | 7:05 am
Who Knew?

Remember Jan Brewer, the whacky Republican Governor of Arizona who talked about decapitated heads out in the desert and all the rest? Well, she’s become a warrior for Obamacare in her state. Go figure.

06.13.13 | 7:16 am
No NRA Tote Bag for You!

Sen. Manchin: NRA is lying and has “lost its way.”

06.13.13 | 8:08 am
Shed a Tear

Most of you of a certain age must remember that “Crying Indian” public service announcement from the 70s with the ‘Indian’ (who I think was actually an Italian-American actor) shedding a tear for the destruction of the environment. I was imagining a similar ad only with Pat Buchanan over this story which says that whites are no longer a majority among Americans under the age of 5.