7 Things About the Economy

An extraordinary series of articles recently appeared on the Nieman Watchdog Web site, anchored by investigative reporter John Hanrahan and mostly based on interviews with some of the nation’s most perceptive, prescient and prophetic economists. The series laid out a broad landscape of economic issues that have been largely overlooked during the reporting of the nation’s economic collapse — to our great peril. Read more.

Amazon.com of Marijuana

Entrepreneur John Lee thinks the pot business is ready for its own Amazon.com.

The numbers back him up. Marijuana is California’s biggest cash crop, generating sales estimated at $14 billion a year. Thanks to the state’s increasingly liberal medical marijuana laws, more of that money than ever before is being spent legally. Read more…

Collapse of Human Civilization

Human civilisation would “collapse” and efforts to tackle global warming will fail unless the world curbs its culture of greed and excessive consumerism, a report has warned. Read more…

Move Your Money

Bill Maher explains why you should move your money out of a “too big to fail” bank and put it into a local community bank or credit union. Watch the video.

You Play to Win the Game

This is the only time where that auto tuner machine is useful.
You Play To Win The Game (NFL Mixtape)

Dissertations on His Dudeness

Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1998 movie, “The Big Lebowski,” which stars Jeff Bridges as a beatific, pot-smoking, bowling-obsessed slacker known as the Dude, snuck up on the English-speaking world during the ’00s: it became, stealthily, the decade’s most venerated cult film. It’s got that elusive and addictive quality that a great midnight movie has to have: it blissfully widens and expands in your mind upon repeat viewings. Read more…

Medal of Honor Winner vs. HOA

Col. Van T. Barfoot, a local Medal of Honor winner, is under the gun from his Henrico County community’s homeowner association.
Too many idiots are running the homeowner association.
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Kirk Cameron’s “Origin of Species”

Kirk Cameron, best known for his role in the 1980s sitcom Growing Pains, now spends much of his time advocating for far-right Christian evangelical causes. Read more…

Strange Humans

The human race has scaled the tallest mountains, charted the deepest oceans and played a quick front nine on the freaking moon, but there’s one frontier that still largely mystifies us: our own bodies.

6 Things Your Body Does Every Day That Science Can’t Explain

Legalized Marijuana?

With the Obama administration’s decision not to prosecute medicinal marijuana dealers and users, even though they violate federal law, the country is “probably in the process now of legalizing marijuana,” conservative columnist George F. Will said today. Read more…