• Artillery fire exchanged on the Korean peninsula.
• What a mess.
• Maybe he should move further to the center.
• A peek inside the twisted world of Faux News.
• John Mackey, still an asshat.
• Love this headline.

If only non-prescription Oxy had a tax deduction.

Lady Antebellum – Need You Now, Zac Brown Band – Free

Sarah Palin is a hypocrite? Say it ain’t so!

Banks are justifying their fraudulent foreclosure operations by saying that most borrowers would default anyway. But borrowers who have sought help through HAMP are proving that wrong. They’re either getting a HAMP modification, get pushed into a private modification, or somehow move heaven and earth to pay off the loan. People are extremely attached to their homes and will do what it takes to stay in them, if they get the chance.

The White House has started a pushback campaign on gate rape that is reminiscent of “Recovery Summer” or “Mission Accomplished” for its credibility.

It consists of a number of things, in addition to the inevitable army of talking-point-people using the word “enhanced” the same way Cheney did.

Tonight, on the 47th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination of we’re doing something a little different–discussing the Zapruder film and other footage from that day, along with the event itself and how Kennedy’s assassination changed America.

I was two years old then, so all I recall was my dad having me watch the funeral on the teevee. But as I grew up, it was impossible to ignore the impact of that day in Dallas on our collective psyche as a nation. Questioning authority, distrust of government, conspiracy theories, the war in Viet Nam, civil rights, hippies, Nixon (and all he did both good–like EPA and OSHA–and bad). How would thing be different if Kennedy had not been shot? Hard to say.

A few CT machines in a handful of hospitals exposed several hundred patients to an over-dose of radiation over the course of eighteen months.

One malfunctioning scanning machine at one airport will over-dose thousands in the course of one week.

Feeling safe yet?

The FBI conducted raids on two hedge funds in Connecticut at the center of a growing insider trading scandal. Diamondback Capital Management and Level Global Investors LP experienced the raids today, which were carried out under court-authorized search warrants.

In short, TSA rushed these things into operation without any evidence that they actually work, or what the impact would be of their new heightened “security” measures. Now, according to the 2011 Homeland Security appropriations request, TSA Chief John Pistole wants money for 500 more porno scanners.