It could happen today, or Assad might delay this push and buy another month or three. But the Arab Spring that began in Tunisia and swept through Egypt and Libya is now on the doorstep of the Syrian capital (Building raw link base below). There are conflicting reports, some saying the final battle for Damascus may have already begun, others unclear: [Read more…]
In addition to Mitt’s squirrely story over his non work at Bain capital after 1999, two so-called fact checkers have been snared in the sticky web. Brooks Jackson at Annenberg’s FactCheck.org and the Post’s Glenn Kessler may have started out in good faith, but since then both have been engaging a lot less in fact checking and a lot more in what looks like covering their and Romney’s ass for a bad call early on. Robert Parry writing at the Consortium takes them down hard: [Read more…]
Video surfacing, events may move quickly this evening/week
The Assad regime may be near the long bloody end of its corrupt reign. Fighting between what’s left of government forces and a growing army of rebels has reportedly now broken out in the capital, Damascus: [Read more…]
The NYT has posted an article claliming the Federal Food and Drug Adminsitrtaion used high tech spyware to keep tabs on scientists’ comminuques with congress and other people while working at the agency: [Read more…]
Holy smokes. A hiker in Utah lost for a month, with little or no supplies and suffering from mental disability, was finally found this week, alive. [Read more…]
Mitt Romney is getting his ass kicked on this Bain thing. Bad enough that I expect at least an attempted Rovian Nat’l Guard Rather-esque ratfucking op before long: [Read more…]
The Minnesota Saints have a proud tradition of innovative promotions. The minor league boys of summer once gave away Micheal Vick chew-toys so that local dogs could bite into his likeness! Next month they will change their name from the Saints to the Aints for one night of “unbelievable fun” complete with an atheist meet and greet: [Read more…]
If you want to know who murdered Pluto, it was Mike Brown! Mike greatly expanded the our understanding of the solar system with the discovery of Eris and several other Kuiper Belt Objects objects. He and two team members have landed the ‘Nobel Prize’ of astronomy: [Read more…]
The sun emitted a powerful set of X-class flares this week, one of which could start hitting earth’s magnetosphere right about … now. The other could strike a few days later. The effects are notoriously hard to predict, but scientists now say it does not poses a serious threat to the surface: [Read more…]
Awww, they’re so cute! They’re also one of the most endangered species on earth. But for the most endangered group of mammals, scientists say lemurs top the list.