Temporarily Or Permanently, I’ve Moved…

… to my old Blogger blog. But rather than bookmarking it directly, you should bookmark the following link: http://www.yellowdoggereldemocrat.org/ That’s a forwarding address that will take you to wherever I’m blogging at the moment. Create a link in your browser and paste that URL into it directly, and I promise you you can forget about [...]

Please Use The Same Site Name As This One…

… but substitute “blogspot” for “wordpress” in the URL. I have an interesting story to tell you, but I need to do it there, not here. Hell, I might even have to ROT13 it… nah. It’s not raunchy enough for that. Oh, and you might want to bookmark the other site, just in case…

A Short Excerpt From Paul Krugman’s New Book

… via the New York Review of Books. The question “when shall I read this book” has devolved into a question “when will this book be available from the public library.” I just looked in the online catalog: with only one copy and five holds, it may be a while. Similar questions will have similar [...]

TransCanada Quietly Reapplies, Keystone XL Pipeline Planned On Original Schedule

We live in an age of zombie environmental nightmares, and the Keystone XL pipeline, slated to transport tar sands, the dirtiest of fossil fuels, from Canada to Texas, has just risen from the dead to resume its glazed-eyed walk across our landscape, defying tradition by crossing and endangering an estimated 101 bodies of water. Here [...]

CISPA: Your Privacy At Severe Risk Of Government‑Corporate Surveillance

Following up on the earlier CISPA post, Anjali Dalal of AlterNet has a concentrated summary of CISPA and all the last-minute amendments applied last Thursday evening before the bill was passed unexpectedly by the House. Many of the amendments appear to have been inserted (and others deleted) in defiance of reservations expressed by the Electronic [...]

Did The Stimulus Work?

Mark Thoma of Economist’s View (references to whom often appear in Paul Krugman’s blog) answers by quoting an LA Times article: “According to a collaboration between Fitch Ratings and Oxford economics, the answer is yes: …” Here’s the hed and first graf of the LAT article: Government stimulus moves may have ended recession, by Jim [...]

Christmas Eve?

TPM’s Nick R. Martin: Longtime white supremacist and border vigilante JT Ready saw himself as part of a war that few others would fight. He amassed weapons. He donned a uniform. He formed his own brigade of volunteers to walk alongside him as he hunted what he described as “narco terrorists” flowing across the Arizona-Mexico [...]

Bad News For Planned Parenthood In Texas

Remember a couple of days ago when Planned Parenthood of Texas was handed a favorable ruling saying that preventing them from receiving state funds was unconstitutional? Remember how Mad Kane said those rulings are usually overturned? Well, it’s not quite that bad, but it’s bad enough. Here’s the word, from Melaney A. Linton, president and [...]

Forty Years Of WOW – The War On Workers – In America

Here’s another dog-bites-man story, an economic tale of today’s America that only a Republican could love or ignore or feign surprise at. TPM’s Brian Beutler points us to a preview of the Economic Policy Institute’s forthcoming publication, “The State of Working America,” and the state is… not good. The preview, “The wedges between productivity and [...]

Greece: People Are Eating Out Of Dumpsters

L’Enfant de la Haute Mer has the story (please use Google Translate if you don’t read Greek). This has happened in the United States within my lifetime, notably in the era of the “sainted” Ronald Reagan. I’ve seen it myself. Every grocery store dumpster had its regulars; it was presumably their main source of food. [...]