The folks at Failblog have compiled a set of alleged Twitter tweets from people so outraged by the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”) that they’re moving to Canada. I hope I don’t have to explain … Continue reading
A customer at a fast-food drive-thru has a soft drink cup that seems to be floating in mid-air. What’s interesting is the variety of reactions the prank provokes from the employees: by … Continue reading
This chart, from Scott Barber at Reuter’s, compares economic performance for the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Eurozone (the 17 countries that have adopted the euro as their currency): The vertical axis shows real (meaning inflation-adjusted) gross domestic … Continue reading
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Today’s edition of Talking Points Memo’s The Day in 100 Seconds, focused on news coverage of the Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act, is reasonably amusing: On a completely different front, I’m back from a conference at the … Continue reading
There’s a long tradition of using spoofs and hoaxes to generate publicity, as in the famous case of a British ad agency that promoted its services by advertising a non-existent Australian perfume called Sheila with the slogan “Also Kills Flies.” … Continue reading
The longest-serving mail carrier in the United States is still on the job in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Originally from Brooklyn, he served as a bomber ball turret gunner during World War II (and survived a plane crash), for a … Continue reading
This book, by two conservative Christian professors, is a rebuttal to The Jefferson Lies by David Barton, a writer whose books and talks about American history are unfortunately popular with a large segment of the religious right. Some of Barton’s … Continue reading
Here’s another film inspired by the video game Portal 2, in which a sort of gun is able to shoot holes in walls, ceilings, and floors, and the last two of them are connected, so if you pass through one, … Continue reading
Nobel-Prize-winning Princeton University economist Paul Krugman contends that we could get out of the current economic doldrums fairly quickly—not overnight, but in less than two years—were it not for the fact that so many politicians here and in Europe have … Continue reading