Is everyone who works at BP an idiot?

All of our man-made disasters are composed of unraveling common threads.

The Brian Setzer Orchestra — Pipe Line.

What’s on your mind tonight?

Sarah “Reagan” Palin? There she goes again…

Ok, so I feel really dumb. When looking at the announcement of the Israeli “investigation” which attempts to bypass standard international law to coverup the attack on the Freedom Flotilla, I noted there was an Irishman and a Canadian on the panel – though without voting rights. I was distracted by the White House’s wholehearted [...]

If you don’t like Pres. Obama, just impeach him, and use armed rebellion if that doesn’t work, says one Alabama Congressional hopeful.

The Affordable Care Act doesn’t fully implement until 2014, and in the meantime, health care costs will rise. In fact, costs for employers, among the more stable in the broken insurance market, are expected to jump 9% in 2011, according to a study by Pricewaterhouse Coopers. And the only reason the overall cost increase is this low is because employers plan to shift costs to their workers. So the total increase to the employer and employee is easily into the double digits. And that will continue at least until full implementation. The study hopes that some of these costs hikes are due to provider consolidation and capital expenditures, which should ease in the medium term, but given the trajectory of health care costs in America over time, that looks like wishful thinking.

But clearly, the biggest fear is that employers make their coverage crappier and crappier, offloading these increased costs onto their workforce. The Obama Administration is actually writing rules designed to put a stop to that.

During the Prop 8 aftermath I watched as the manager of the landmark El Coyote restaurant sobbed through a community meeting, trying to stave off a boycott of her family business. Her Mormon bishop had told her to write a check to support Prop 8, and she did, even though she claimed she loved her LGBT customers and employees. It was stunning and appalling. 8: The Mormon Proposition takes us into the mindset of Mormon leaders and their followers like Margy who were just following The Prophet’s orders.

As I mentioned in this post, I’ve been weeding through the documents released under FOIA to Judicial Watch last week. I think they suggest there’s a much closer relationship between the CIA misrepresentations on Congressional Briefings and the destruction of the torture tapes than we’ve known before.

It’s becoming increasingly clear that all Harry Reid has to do to get re-elected is to simply quote his Teabagger-backed opponent, Sharron Angle, verbatim.