Blue Marble Dispatches

Because I dislike those phone robots so very much... "For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life p...

Kevin Drum has the run down .

A good laugh, from Politico : The difficulty in working out and coordinating world policy while America's hands are effectively tied unt...

Mr. Obama’s favorability is the highest for a presidential candidate running for a first term in the last 28 years of Times/CBS polls. Mrs. ...

If only I could be this clever (From Michael Pollan's "Farmer in Chief"): What was once a regional food economy is now nationa...

It seems that credit cards have been chopped up and securitized just like mortgages , and we're probably about to see a lot more defaul...

Nice.