Inflection Point Diary

"There's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there. Like a splinter in your mind."

is that glass of blood half empty, or half full?

If we leave Afghanistan, this will happen to the women there!
And, uh, don’t tell anyone, but if we stay…

government: still overfunded

Federal investigators are trying to make a case against Lance Armstrong, and are hunting for evidence that he used performance-enhancing drugs to win bike races. Just one problem:
Using performing-enhancing techniques in sports is generally not against the law in the U.S.
So it’s a federal criminal investigation into something that’s not a federal crime. But not [...]

and again

Further proof of the need for pink slips in the public sector:
…20 agents arrived bearing a search warrant at her Ventura County farmhouse door…the third time she was being raided in 18 months…problem over labeling of her goat cheese…

you couldn’t come up with government this pathetic and absurd if you actively set out to create it

At least five government agencies…
Agencies that participated in the raid on Rawesome included the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office, the California Department of Food and Agriculture, the FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
…raided a Venice Beach raw food co-op, with guns drawn, to do this:
Investigators [...]

look on our works, ye mighty, and feel terrific

Howdy, folks, Jared Bernstein here again, jumping back on the dang Internet computer machine to tell all the good folks about the jobs what us folks down at the ol’ White House are working to add to an economy that’s all broke down like a ol’ tired fiddle that lost its durned strings.
So folks, lemme [...]

just $628,000 per job

Fuck me, what a fucking fool this asshole is. Touting success!

omfg jill biden’s new nail polish is stunning yaaaaay clap clap clap

There is nothing else in the world quite like the Huffington Post.

gasp

The New Orleans TV reporter who “broke” the Adam Dillon BP whistleblower “story” promised a two-part report on back to back nights. The first part ran on July 10. The second part ran on…
Okay, it ran on never. The second part was supposed to run on Monday night, but WDSU reporter Scott Walker posted a [...]

dear reporters: learn to use the google machine

I think BP and the federal government are full of shit, deeply corrupt, and lying about the extent of the damage caused by BP’s gusher. But the gazillion blogs and whatnot picking up former security contractor Adam Dillon’s story and running with it should probably join the reporter who broke the “BP fired a whistleblower!” [...]

because marijuana is toxic, is why

Press release:

Today Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius visited Grand Isle Beach and New Orleans, Louisiana as part the Department’s ongoing efforts to to address the public health and mental health aspects of the Gulf oil spill. She was joined by HHS officials Dr. James Galloway, health liaison to the National Incident Command, [...]

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