Mark Fiore’s animations are very sharp satires. Check out “Trickle Down Tales”. And Tom Tomorrow is pretty good today too.
Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee have put together a chart explaining what happened to the surplus in Clinton’s final budget. It’s mildly deceptive (everything except defense is adjusted for inflation and population growth), but ignoring the too-high defense number, it makes a great point: We had a revenue crash and the population got older, but there was no discretionary-spending orgy.
Last week I mentioned the possibility of Obama invoking the 14th amendment to ignore the debt ceiling. Lawrence Tribe has convinced me that’s not a legitimate option.
Slate’s tech reviewer loves the new LED light bulb. It lasts 20 years, uses about 1/5 the power, and emits the spectrum we expect from incandescents. The problem: They cost $20 each. Long-term it’s a good deal, but people aren’t used to thinking about light bulbs as investments.
What if your windows could be solar panels?
If Republican election-reform laws aren’t about suppressing legitimate votes, then why does the new Ohio law say that poll workers don’t have to direct confused voters to their correct polling places?
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