The U.S. government's debt will be asplodin' in the near future.
The famous Tiananmen Square photo, uncropped.
Asshole cops and asshole school administrators have woman arrested for cheering at a high school graduation, then withhold the student's diploma for extra assholishness.
The President of Estonia gives Paul Krugman the what for.
This is something that I've been noticing as well: film and TV is surprisingly conservative in its portrayals of sex and sex work. Portrayals of prostitution is almost always negative and I've found that much of the criticism (see much of the response to an episode from this season's Mad Men) focus on how horrible and soul destroying it must be to offer sex for monetary compensation. I'll admit I might be reading more into than is actually there, but I hope to do a post looking a little more in-depth at this.
Matt Yglesias discovers that taxes, laws and regulations in the hospitality industry make it difficult for start-ups and innovators like Airbnb to compete with established firms "legally". His solution, of course, is to write laws for those companies to be regulated and taxed.
Either this is a brilliant piece of performance art, or you are looking into the mind of a genuinely insane person.
That's the Chicago way.
Matt Welch wants concrete answers from Democrats and progressives as to what is enough government so that negotiations and real governance can begin.
"And for the first time since the Civil War, the federal government will deploy military personnel inside the United States and publicly acknowledge that it is deploying them 'to collect information about U.S. persons.'" Where is the outrage?
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