Corporate monopoly capitalism in 2014

A brief overview for people who have never realized that the American economy is increasingly oligarchic.

Gross Republican immorality results from abandoning conservatism

I've always thought so.

Hobby Lobby money supports questionable people

I guess that's not surprising. What's surprising is the sheer volume of money that does go to support these people. Like buying them an entire administrative complex.

What happens when you try to publish on confirming the non-existence of time travel?

An interesting conundrum - science confirming a null hypothesis for the existence of time travelers can't be published. (Or can be published only with great difficulty.) And it was interesting work, too, from an NLP perspective.

Rachel Maddow interviews Jon Stewart

Interesting interview - but it's a little weird that Jon Stewart thinks he's outside the political process. Because he and his artistic descendants Colbert and Oliver certainly aren't.

The BND paid a group of "ex"-Nazis after the war to "fight Communism"

Fascism is always OK if you're fighting Communism.

The homicides not reported during Katrina in NOLA

The grinning skull.