The Red White and Blue Pill
I am the very model of a Stable Genius Liberal.
Charles Koch: The people I pay agree with me, so should you.
According to George Mason University’s Mercatus Center,
calculated the Competitive Enterprise Institute
Mr. Koch failed to mention that he funds the people he is quoting. I for one am not surprised the people he pays to reach the conclusions he supports are in total agreement with him.
C.I.A. Hires Yossarian to Censor Torture Report
In Joseph Heller’s anti-war satire, “Catch 22,” the hero, Yossarian, is assigned to a censorship detail. He amuses himself by deleting all the adverbs and adjectives from soldiers’ letters, then all the articles, then everything but the articles, and so on. His job was to delete details that threatened operational security. The result was gibberish. It seems the Central Intelligence Agency was inspired by Yossarian’s example.
This will eventually come out and like always, the coverup will be worse than the crime.
Fox News Hasn’t Mentioned the GOP Report That Says There is No Benghazi Scandal (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
CEO pay for performance: This graph shows why it’s a sham.
I think it’s debatable if stock price is the best way to judge CEO performance, let alone the only way, but this is a response to a really odd claim from Businessweek that attempts to link the two.
CIA admits to spying on US Senate computer network
Some CIA employees acted in a manner inconsistent with the common understanding reached between SSCI (Senate Select Committee on Intelligence) and the CIA in 2009
This will go not be investigated because the GOP is too busy being outraged by Obama’s fictional abuses of power.
Can we start discussing Israel’s actions as possibly motivated by a little more than pure defense yet? Can we agree that it’s possible to be critical of Israeli overreach without being opposed to Israel’s right to exist? The Times of Israel published an article on “when genocide is permissible.” Here’s their funder – Vox
Poverty replicates itself in very predictable structural ways.
Not a perfect article but worth a read. I’ve never seen any reason to support the pull-your-pants up view of poverty being a defect in individuals. If it were true the great depression would have been the great slack where a fifth of the nation decided to become lazy and live off free soup.
Qatar World Cup: migrants wait a year to be paid for building offices
Migrant workers who built luxury offices used by Qatar’s 2022 football World Cup organisers have told the Guardian they have not been paid for more than a year and are now working illegally from cockroach-infested lodgings.
Who could have guessed that without labor laws, companies would act this way?
Why the Myers-Briggs test is totally meaningless
The characteristics measured by the test have almost no predictive power on how happy you’ll be in a situation, how you’ll perform at your job, or how happy you’ll be in your marriage.
I view the Myers-Briggs as an updated version of the horoscope.
Satanists Demand Religious Exemption From Abortion Restrictions, Cite Hobby Lobby Ruling
Now that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby, the Satanists point out, it strengthens their own quest to opt out of laws related to women’s health care that go against their religious liberty.
When the Satanists seem more reasonable than you, maybe you need to start rethinking your position.
