For your consideration, a brief set of statistics which provide a glance at our bloated prison system:
-The United States has a prison population of 2.3 million, far more than any other nation and nearly 25% of the world’s total inmate population.
-751 out of 100,000 Americans are behind bars, compared with 627 for Russia, 151 for [...]
Some of you may have missed it, but Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont was the guest on the Colbert Report the other night. The Senator spoke on issues near and dear to us Impatient Sufferers, particularly education and health care. Watch the video and think about what we could achieve if we elected more congressmen [...]
It comes as no surprise that 61 percent of legal-age respondents in a survey said they’d be to voting by text message. It’s less of a surprise that 80 percent of teens said that if they could vote, they’d prefer to do so by text message. The question I wanted to see asked: Would you [...]
We all remember the early days of the Iraq war, when Bush’s machismo swelled to the point where he felt the need to goad the insurgency by taunting them to bring on their attacks on US soldiers. Thousands of US soldiers have died since that statement but it appears little was learned.
Today, Condoleezza Rice brought [...]
First, Congress tells states that they must use e-voting machines. Now that we’re seeing the need for a paper trail (for accountability reasons), Congress is now pushing states to use e-voting machines that leave a paper trail. Oh, but don’t count on the feds to foot the bill.
Look, if you want accuracy, you’re going [...]
Carpetbagger describes the flip-flops of John McCain. I guess that’s what you’ve got to do when you want the GOP nomination…
Slow Joe has brought us quite a few, shall we say, special moments in his political career. None has been quite so special as his decision to run as an independent after loosing the Democratic primary to Ned Lamont. Today, he reminds us all why so many Connecticut Democrats were willing to abandon an incumbent [...]
We briefly noted that VT congressman Peter Welch was leading the efforts to make sure that contractors working overseas didn’t get exempted from rules designed to fight fraud. Welch fought the good fight and it seems he won. Bully for him.
Many of you have seen the work of Shepard Fairey. His Andre the Giant images are iconic in underground art. He seems to be a better artist than copyright lawyer though. He recently sent a cease and desist letter to an artist who has taken to parodying his style. This is exceptionally ironic as Fairey [...]
Readers of Gawker blogs Idolator, Gridskipper, and Wonkette might find some changes in the next few weeks. Publisher Nick Denton announced that he has sold the blogs as of this morning. He says that Gawker’s remaining 12 blogs comprise 97 percent of the company’s page views, and an even greater percentage of the revenue. I [...]