I’m not usually one to post celebrity news, preferring as I do news with more substance. But pretty much anything the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas does grabs my attention. And […]
Generation gap or civility gap?
by JS O’Brien Devraj Kori set off a firestorm near our nation’s seat of gross incompetence last Thursday when he called a Fairfax County, Virginia public schools’ administrator, Dean Tistadt, to complain […]
Hide your bong: New York to tax illegal drug sales
The governor of New York, Elliot Spitzer, has decided to raise $13 million for his proposed $124.3 billion budget by requiring your local purveyors of illegal drugs to affix state tax stamps […]
FISA Fight, Round 2: Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way
By Martin Bosworth I warned you last month that although Chris Dodd and a grassroots push from the blogosphere succeeded in stopping the reauthorization of laws that grant the government vast new […]
EPA politics and California
The Bush administration must hate the state of California with a passion bordering on fanaticism. First the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission of the Department of Energy declares most of southern California a […]
The 935 lies of George W. Bush (and friends)
By Martin Bosworth That Bush and his inner circle of neocon zealots lied and cooked the books to get us into a war we never should have fought is not news, of […]
The Weekly Carboholic
The World Future Energy Summit is taking place this week in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Conference topics include solar and wind power, clean transportation, carbon, waste-to-fuel conversion, biofuels, geothermal and other […]
CIA: Hackers have shut down power grids outside the U.S.
The CIA announced today that there had been several successful hacks into city power grids by criminals trying to extort money out of the city. When the city(ies) refused, the hackers successfully […]
LA Times: Another editor out for refusing to make budget cuts
Today I’d hate to be the managing editor of The Los Angeles Times, John M. Arthur, 60, or its innovation editor, Russ Stanton, 49. That’s because rumor has it they’re on the […]
Lord Byron's Birthday
Today, the 22nd of January, is George Gordon’s (née Lord Byron’s) birthday. He’d be 220. Byron was acknowledged as the first Scrogue, or Scholar/Rogue by this blog, and it seems only fitting […]
