Unqualified Offerings

By Mona
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Why are the masterminds of the Ron Paul money bombs joining with the ACLU, Glenn Greenwald, and Firedoglake’s Jane Hamsher to fund a coalition, and enable a political action committee, among other things? Answer: To do something about the “bipartisan” crap that led to Thoreau’s justifiably angry post.
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I and Jennifer [...]

By Thoreau
The latest issue of Physics Today has a DIY article on putting solar panels on your house.  This is the sort of thing that makes sense in the climate of San Diego, not sure how much sense it would make in Seattle.

By Thoreau
But he talks like a gentleman, like you imagined when you were young (and dumb).
Greenwald explains it better than I can–Obama broke his promise to support a filibuster of immunity. As commenter mds noted in another thread, rather than gaining some sort of electoral advantage for supporting an allegedly “anti-terrorist” bill he got [...]

Aswat Aliraq quotes a UN rep stating that "One-sixth of Iraq’s residents are displaced inside and outside of the country." This is roughly in line with other figures, but the end of the article offers some historical perspective on the scale:
Abdul-Samad Rahman Sultan, the Iraqi Immigration Minister, said "the conference aims at finding permanent solutions [...]