What worries me is that Brooks will take these true confessions about adultery and death and life among the ruins and he’ll use them as source material to fashion yet another novel where couples will ” taste each other’s saliva and then collect genetic information.”

New York Times reporter Robert Pear and his editors try to resurrect a zombie proposal by the anti-Medicare zealots to displace the guaranteed benefits structure of Medicare. Its just another attempt to push Paul Ryan’s voucher system that would systematically reduce benefits and shift rising health care costs to individuals, despite the fact this flawed [...]

Warning: Defending your rights may be hazardous to your health. Potential side effects can include rubber bullets, tear gas, and batons wielded with impunity.

Here for you Firedogs is a copy of an email I sent earlier today to my dear friend wendydavis by way of letting you all know how the movement is progressing down in Tucson (I have expanded on the original email by way of utter laziness in place of an actual post). Truth be told……one of the Hispanic women at Occupy Tucson brought me a large bowl of Pozole (a SouthWest delicacy at holiday time, white corn, braised chicken, thin tomato based sauce, HOT, ladled over shredded cabbage spritzed with lime) along with the proper fixings, and I just want to get to that. First things first ya know?

Linda Katehi proves in this interview that her Chancellorship is both fatally disengaged and thoroughly disrespected. Why is the President of the UC system, and why are the UC regents, still supporting her? How long can she hang onto her job?

More hot links from our friend fatster.

The credit agencies have been busy with a new round of threats.

Carl Sims — It Ain’t A Juke Joint Without The Blues.

We just want to make the world dance.

There are many alternative names you might consider. In honor of Sen. Linda Menard’s hallmark legislation from the 2009 session, you might consider the new name “Winged Marmot”

Other suggestions already put forward by Patriotic Americans have been “Freedom Fowl” and ‘Pilgrim Pullet.”