Gulf of Mexico oil slick: Sarah Palin fuels anti-British sentiment – Telegraph. Apparently we’re still fighting off the Brits.  Or something. Maybe we’re trying to get the crown out of Canada (for their own sake)? Beats me. Also, this sort of rabble-rabble seems to be early promotional material for her 2012 run at the GOP [...]

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Image via Wikipedia From the Boston Globe: Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and whose books, such as “A People’s History of the United States,” inspired young and old to rethink the way textbooks present the American experience, died today in Santa [...]

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy There are only two recession-proof industries: booze and sex. One of them only costs you time, which you will have plenty of being unemployed. The other one simply dulls the pain. Black-markets don’t count because they’ll prosper regardless and could possibly fail if [...]