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The folks at the National Priorities Project have been maintaining a counter at costofwar.com for a while now that estimates the current economic cost of our continuing misadventure in Iraq.
It’s a depressing number, especially when you watch it grow by thousands of dollars each second and consider (as they do on their site) [...]

[Editor’s note: I’m a little behind on this story, but better late than never.]
Here’s a hypothetical situation for your consideration.
Let’s say a given media outlet is saying a lot of inflammatory things – hate speech, threats of violence, racial slurs, etc. Some folks are offended by this, so they make a note of [...]

It’s about time for an update, don’t you think?

By the way – if you really want some television coverage to help you remember and understand and appreciate the reality of the terrorist attacks five years ago, you can’t do much better than Jon Stewart’s comments in his show of September 20, 2001.
If we had more folks like Jon Stewart, and fewer folks like [...]

Most of the 9/11 rememberance stuff has come and gone by now, and every year it seems that the attacks of 9/11 get spun and twisted and distorted a little more. 9/11 and the War on Terror continues to be a rallying cry for the Bush administration, and yet the gap between the true [...]

Keith Olbermann on 9/11
Excerpt:

History teaches us that nearly unanimous support of a government cannot be taken away from that government, by its critics. It can only be squandered by those who use it not to heal a nation’s wounds, but to take political [...]

If there was any doubt remaining in anyone’s minds about just how corrupt and cynical our government has become, check this out.
A little background – the federal minimum wage has been at $5.15 since 1997 (when it was raised $0.35 from $4.75). Taking inflation into consideration, the real purchasing power of this wage is [...]

Sometimes political correctness is, to put it succinctly, a pain in the ass.
Mitt Romney of Massachusetts got himself into hot water on Saturday by referring to Boston’s Big Dig as a “tar baby”:
The best thing for me to do politically is stay away from the Big Dig – just get as far away [...]

Moiz Syed’s Israeli/Lebanese Coffin Counter pretty much speaks for itself.
America’s unflinching support for Israel is a problematic subject. You can’t question Israel, or our support for Israel, without being tarred with the anti-Semite brush. But at the same time, how can you look at what’s really happened in the Middle East over the [...]

Luther he’s not, but somebody named Devanshu has nailed his 95 Theses of Geek Activism on the door of the Interweb (well, technically speaking, on the Science Addiction blog, but you know, creative license). Link courtesy of Cory @ BoingBoing, who recently had a birthday (which I know because I share it).
There [...]