Occupied photo by Dave Id [www.indybay.org]
Newsflash: Protesters poop. Breaking update: The poop smells.
Instead of taking the Occupy Movement’s complaints about corporate influence over the U.S. government seriously, many media have instead focused on the bodily functions and other mundane actions of the Occupiers.
Unlike…
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addicted to rocks
A report just came out from the highly respected, nonpartisan American Economic Review showing that “harm from coal-fired electrical plants costs more than twice as much as the electricity they generate.” In other words, the true…
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C'mon, dude, I already told you I don't want to smell your finger.
Over the past two years, the scandals around Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi have spread faster than a case of crabs at one of his infamous “bunga bunga parties.” As the revelations of his poon-houndery became…
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... and then Google jammed a “Dutch Sandwich” in the middle of its “Double Irish” to lubricate the transmission of its swollen profits to a steamy little tax haven in Bermuda.
Just like every other profession, lawyers and accountants in the tax divisions of major corporation have their own insider lingo. It turns out that when these guys come up with new ways to exploit loopholes, they give provocative-sounding names to…
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"Oooh, nice blankets. What is that fleece? Looks so cozy..." -Hypothetical Michelle Bachman quote
A few months ago Michelle Bachmannn angered people who think slavery was bad by signing a conservative pledge suggesting that black children were better off as property. Since then, the New Yorker revealed that Bachmann was…
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