Are video games the new novels?  Probably only a few of them.  Roger Ebert had to re-bolt his remarks that video games inherently can’t be “art”.  My guess is “Grand Theft Auto” may be a novel, but it’s probably not Art.

Reminisces of the Bush / Cheney White House.

When Roosevelt took the US off the Gold Standard, and the Supreme Court went through loops to uphold it, and was that a default?

Meanwhile, in Switzerland…

How to survive a Nuclear Strike if you were in 1968.

Facebook becomes a little less private.
School Districts comandeer Facebook.

A moderately interesting comments section dissecting open mic comedy and gender and appropriateness and meaning of different things, and… okay, it’s only moderately interesting.  Mostly I just smirk and roll my eyes by the reactions to the appearance by the male comedian being referenced in comments section.

Generational Resource Fight.

Freedomworks in financial disarray.

The Big Truckers Protest:  Dozens come out.

How Belgium survived without a government for 20 months.

The coming John Boehner Speakership…

“You were the leader of an attempted high school prostitution ring,” Hennepin County District Court Judge William Koch said at the sentencing hearing. “And you did it all for a pair of sneakers.”

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