Would you want to be paying hefty access fees to a company that is using them to fight to charge you even more and different access fees?
Probably not, but Verizon is that company.
Yikes. I wonder if they toughht it through, before they got their dander up?
Friday, September 30, 2011
FIOS fees go to fight Net Neutrality
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Grim Visage of War
Hopefully, we haven't gotten inured to war, after years and years of it.
The Taliban attempt to create a "Tet Offensive" in Kabul, or something:
Photo: Mossadeq Sadeq
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Waiting for the Peace Dividend in Iraq, still
Both for members of Parliament and ordinary Iraqis in the streets of Baghdad, Sept. 11, 2011, is just another wearying day in a country beset by violence, political paralysis, and a deep, lingering sense that conditions aren't likely to improve anytime soon.
-National Journal
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Laugh of the Day
From the Kudlow-Kernan-Caruso-Cabreraesque CNBC brain trust milieu, 1140 is the "worst case". Got it.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Latest GOP Misery Index
The Problem is with the 20-year budget, didn't you hear, so much so that we need a super-congress to solve it.
Meanwhile, what a headfake that is. Aren't we all dead in the long-run?
A cool 15 million:
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
A disasterous belief in American "exceptionalism"
The belief that, no matter what we do (better: "is done by them"), it will all work out, leading to this kind of apathy at the polls:
"Overall, it appeared that more than 43% of voting-age adults turned out in the recalls [in Wisconsin]" - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Not even more than half the people of Wisconsin could be bothered to vote, with the dramatic changes/unraveling going on there. Gulp. Yet, this is seen as "high".
Monday, August 8, 2011
"The Revenge of Macro"
La reprise to the "End of Macro" and all its aficionados.
(I just wanted to be the first to say it.)
American Heroes
Was it worth it? The price that everyone is paying so that the GOP can pretend to get its brand back?
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Syria
What it means to live in the ambit of Iran. Syria goes past the point of return (if it hasn't already).
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Cap, Cut and Heeere's Hoover!
We now know what GOP-Tea prosperity looks like.
Thank you, Senator McConnell and the Senate Republicans. You guys are da bomb:
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Sedition: Defining Down "FULL faith and credit of the United States"
So, who thinks that politicians who sign a "no new taxes pledge" and then go on to say that the U.S. debt is sound and sacrosanct aren't, at best, double-speakers, and, at worse, guilty of sedition?
After all, the "FULL faith and credit" of the U.S. includes the ability to tax (and even tax harshly, say) to make sure that obligations are met.
To deliberately sign a pledge that runs so obviously and "commonsensically" counter to the U.S. Constitution is perhaps ... sedition.
Market Gets to Vote on McConnell-Boehner Dancing on the Ceiling
NO SENSE PLEASE, WE'RE REPUBLICANS
Kinda says it all, as the market digests extremist Tea-Party rhetoric-become-reality and legislation that more-or-less hamstrings policy makers and prolongs the uncertainty during a critical economic time in the U.S. economy:
Markets off 2.5%+, as Americans "embrace the suck" in GOP-Tea politics:
Monday, August 1, 2011
McConnell, Boehner: "PEACE (AND PROSPERITY) IN OUR TIME!"
THE NEWEST "PEACE DIVIDEND" (FOR THE WEALTHIEST) FROM THE GOP
McConnell and Boehner obviously feel like they've achieved something ... suddenly, everyone is going to be better off because we are vapidly cutting spending during a downturn that has headline unemployment still at 9%.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Thought for the Day
Krugman bait:
Apparently the GOP's "Confidence Fairy" doesn't take notice of, you know, Congressional use of the debt ceiling.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Thought for the day: Where are your jobs, Mr. Boehner?
DELUSIONS OF ADEQUACY
Not to question your delusions of adequacy, Mr. Boehner, but, we haven't had any new taxes on "job creators" since as long as anyone can remember.
So the question abides: where are all your jobs, then, Mr. Boehner?
In fact, the GOP insisted as part of the stimulus that huge accelerated-depreciation breaks be given to "job creators". Then, Obama presided over a 1-year "repeal" or "holiday" in the "death tax", just before he extended the favorable tax rates to avoid hitting the economy (and his re-election hopes) and put into place even more ill-advised tax breaks (e.g. the social security tax holiday).
So, again: where are all your jobs, Mr. Boehner?
Monday, July 25, 2011
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