Robert Scheer writes the following at Common Dreams:
That Lawrence Summers, a president emeritus of Harvard, is a consummate distorter of fact and logic is not a revelation. That he and Bill Clinton, the president he served as treasury secretary, can still get away with disclaiming responsibility for our financial meltdown is an insult to reason.
Haven't they learned anything? America's warmongering politicians know that they need only rehash lies from the past to convince America's gullible and lazy mass media to beat the drums for more war. Glenn Greenwald has the headlines. [Epilogue Feb 4, 2012: Now the media is rapidly spreading the highly misleading story that Iran is doubling its military budget, painting it as a threat to the United States.]
The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi turns the tables on Florida politicians who insist that in order to receive welfare payments, Florida residents must first take drug test:
Today, at my daughter's school, I saw the following ten minute move called "The Lunch Date." I won't say anything more, other than I highly recommend it. Enjoy.
Are solar storms capable of knocking out earth's power grids? It has happened, and it could happen again, according to this article in IEEE Spectrum.