Tag: Around the Blogosphere

Cross posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette

The main purpose our blogging is to communicate our ideas, opinions, and stories both fact and fiction. The best part about the the blogs is information that we might not find in our local news, even if we read it online. Sharing that information is important, especially if it educates, sparks conversation and new ideas. We have all found places that are our favorites that we read everyday, not everyone’s are the same. The Internet is a vast place. Unlike “Punting the Pundits which focuses on opinion pieces mostly from the mainstream media and the larger news web sites, “Around the Blogosphere” will focus more on the medium to smaller blogs and articles written by some of the anonymous and not so anonymous writers and links to some of the smaller pieces that don’t make it to “Pundits” by Krugman, Baker, etc.

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From our good friend Robyn at Voices on the Square:

• Gender Prison: I do not demand tolerance, I demand equal rights. — Anna Grodzka

and from Cassiodorus:

• Why I don’t claim to be a progressive

From that “big meanie” Paul Krugman, at his blog Conscious of a Liberal:

• Taxing the Rich
• Nightmare in Portugal
• Procyclical Policy for Germany

and some good advice about getting a thicker skin:

• A Brief, Useless Note On Being Bashed

and even though his eyes are brown:

At Corrente, lambert continues the tales of the ObamaCare Clusterfuck  and the continued occupation of Cooper Union the formerly tuition free college in New York City’s Greenwich Village.

Economist Dean Baker has returned from vacation to give up there gems at Beat the Press:

• Nonsense in the Reinhart-Rogoff Rescue Effort
• Reinhart-Rogoff, Debt, and Assets
• Blocking Keystone Is Like a Carbon Tax

From Electronic Frontier Foundation, Parker Higgins how to protect yourself on Twitter:

• How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication on Twitter (And Everywhere Else)

You’ll love this. At emptywheel, Marcy Wheeler contrasts AG Eric Holder to Torquemada:

• Torquemada Pursued Suspected Muslims, Not Journalists

and Jim White:

• Growing Signs of Intelligence from Intelligence Community, or Just Another Turf War?

Alexandra, at Feministing, brings us some good news about protecting women’s rights to health care:

• Breaking: SCOTUS declines to hear defense of Indiana’s anti-Planned Parenthood law

The Indiana government really, really wants to defund Planned Parenthood, but the U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear its appeal of a lower court’s ruling that the state really, really can’t do that.

That’s good news, indeed.

From her blog Echidne of the Snakes, Echidne asks Are Religions Inherently Sexist?.

Over at Esquire’s Politics Blog, Charles P. Pierce chooses to be “uncivil”, calling Texas Gov. Rick Perry a frickin’ moron. Since when is being factual “uncivil?”

Stating the obvious, Atrios says: Priorities:

Not what they should be.

No, they are not.

Cross posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette

The main purpose our blogging is to communicate our ideas, opinions, and stories both fact and fiction. The best part about the the blogs is information that we might not find in our local news, even if we read it online. Sharing that information is important, especially if it educates, sparks conversation and new ideas. We have all found places that are our favorites that we read everyday, not everyone’s are the same. The Internet is a vast place. Unlike “Punting the Pundits which focuses on opinion pieces mostly from the mainstream media and the larger news web sites, “Around the Blogosphere” will focus more on the medium to smaller blogs and articles written by some of the anonymous and not so anonymous writers and links to some of the smaller pieces that don’t make it to “Pundits” by Krugman, Baker, etc.

We encourage you to share your finds with us. It is important that we all stay as well informed as we can.

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It seems most everyone had better things to do on this Memorial Day than hang out on the Internet. It was a bright, warm sunshiny day here in Stars Hollow and now has cooled a bit and you’ll need a sweater for your evening stroll.

There were a few amusements, however, over at Yves Smith‘s place, naked capitalism she had this picture in her Links of a large bovine warming himself on the hood of a BMW.

Maybe he’s in upper New York State where Whiteface Mountain ski resort had three feet of snow for the kick off the first weekend of Summer.

The tengrain at Dependable Renegaded had this video that most likely expresses the mood of many of our readers:

and watertiger gives a us book review from the Ohmiholymotherofchrist category:

Fires of Siberia (pdf), a [Michele] Bachmann-inspired romance novel, tells the tale of a red state presidential candidate who crashes in Siberia during a trip to improve (or invent) her foreign policy credentials, and must make her way back to civilization with the help of a dashing stranger named-wait for it-Steadman Bass.

And last but not least, our pal at Esquire’s Political Blog, Charles P. Pierce has the latest news in the saga of Rob Ford, the “crazy mayor of Toronto, Canada:

A senior member of Rob Ford’s office was interviewed by police last week about a tip linking a video allegedly showing the mayor smoking illicit drugs to a recent Toronto homicide, two separate sources have confirmed. [..]

he informant in the mayor’s office purported to know the address and unit number where the video was being held. They went on to say that the video originally belonged to an individual who may have been killed for its potentially valuable contents, according to a source. The video clip was allegedly offered for sale to the Star and Gawker by men involved in the drug trade, according to reports in both outlets. Gawker is trying to raise $200,000 for the video through an online campaign. Both media reports were accompanied by a photo, provided by the men selling the video, that allegedly shows Mr. Ford standing with a man believed to be Anthony Smith, a 21-year-old man gunned down in downtown Toronto in March.

and some words of wisdom for now and future politicians:

Pro Tips for rising young pols:a)  bad form to smoke crack; b) very bad form to be videotaped smoking crack; c) extraordinarily bad form to be videotaped smoking crack next to a guy who subsequently gets iced on a downtown street. I am going to post this now before Rob Ford hijacks an airliner and demands to be flown to a Singapore brothel.

No, folks, we do not make this stuff up. We just bring you the news.

Cross posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette

The main purpose our blogging is to communicate our ideas, opinions, and stories both fact and fiction. The best part about the the blogs is information that we might not find in our local news, even if we read it online. Sharing that information is important, especially if it educates, sparks conversation and new ideas. We have all found places that are our favorites that we read everyday, not everyone’s are the same. The Internet is a vast place. Unlike “Punting the Pundits which focuses on opinion pieces mostly from the mainstream media and the larger news web sites, “Around the Blogosphere” will focus more on the medium to smaller blogs and articles written by some of the anonymous and not so anonymous writers and links to some of the smaller pieces that don’t make it to “Pundits” by Krugman, Baker, etc.

We encourage you to share your finds with us. It is important that we all stay as well informed as we can.

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From our friends at Voices on the Square:

• Harvard Study finds Anti-Latino Bias among Local Election Officials by type1error
• Hellraisers Journal: West Virginia Socialist Released from Military Bastille. by JayRaye

Jim White at emptywheel:

• Program US Heralds as Key to Afghan Stability Continues to Rely on Gang Rapes to Intimidate Locals

At FDL Action, John Walker breaks some great news and:

• Breaking: New Hampshire Senate Approves Medical Marijuana

And Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s headache, filibuster:

• Democrats’ Fear of Democracy

From DWright at FDL News Desk:

• ISSA: IRS Official May Have Lost 5th Amendment Rights With Opening Statement
• Penny Pritzker’s Financial Disclosure Off $80 Million

From the contributors at Counterpunch:

• The Consequences of Gun-at-the-Head Diplomacy by Mike Whitney
• Drones = Assassinations = War Crimes by Norman Pollack

Electronic Freedom Foundation contributors, Mark M. Jaycox and Seth Schoen:

• The Government Wants A Backdoor Into Your Online Communications

From Grist, Tom Laskawy with news that may very well turn your stomach:

• Gut punch: Monsanto could be destroying your microbiome

John Upton tells us that Connecticut did something that California couldn’t:

• Connecticut Senate passes GMO-labeling bill

You know you’re in trouble when you’ve lost Charles. P Pierce:

• The Drone Letter

Atrios’ Sadist>Wanker: Kinsley,  hole, shovel.

And today’s last words go to Paul Krugman at Conscious of a Liberal and the reason for his op-ed absence, The Joy of Term Papers.

Cross posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette

The main purpose our blogging is to communicate our ideas, opinions, and stories both fact and fiction. The best part about the the blogs is information that we might not find in our local news, even if we read it online. Sharing that information is important, especially if it educates, sparks conversation and new ideas. We have all found places that are our favorites that we read everyday, not everyone’s are the same. The Internet is a vast place. Unlike “Punting the Pundits which focuses on opinion pieces mostly from the mainstream media and the larger news web sites, “Around the Blogosphere” will focus more on the medium to smaller blogs and articles written by some of the anonymous and not so anonymous writers and links to some of the smaller pieces that don’t make it to “Pundits” by Krugman, Baker, etc.

We encourage you to share your finds with us. It is important that we all stay as well informed as we can.

Follow us on Twitter @StarsHollowGzt

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If you need a laugh with a ring of truth in it, Andy Borowitz at The New Yorker, tosses this zinger about the president:

• Obama Denies Role in Government

Paul Krugman may be on vacation form his weekly op-ed but he can’t stay away from his blog at the NYT, Conscious of a Liberal as he points of the sloppy defense of austerity:

• Sharing Abuse Fairly
• Perma-Stimulus, Again
• The Sloppiness Syndrome

At Corrente, DCblogger names the Democrats who voted against Food Stamps and lambert keeps documenting the atrocities of the gift that keeps on giving ObamaCare Clusterf**k.

Yesterday at emptywheel, Marcy Wheeler asked a really good question about the AP secret subpoena scandal:

• Why Would the US Shield Fahd al-Quso in February 2012 But Drone Kill Him in May 2012?

From masaccio at MyFDL:

• Institutional Investors Love Sleazy Bankers

At FDL Action, Jon Walker points out more flaws with Obamacare and positive movement on an all be it imperfect immigration bill:

• Labor Health Care Plans May Suffer as Part of Obamacare Implementation
• Immigration Reform Takes an Important Step Forward

At the FDL News Desk, DSWright keeps up with the foreclosure, IRS and Press scandals:

• Wells Fargo Tries To Foreclose On Homeowner For Making Early Mortgage Payments
• IRS Official Takes 5th Amendment At Congressional Hearing
• Obama Administration Also Seized Phone Records Of Fox News

As much as I dislike Fox News, this latest revelation sweeping seizures of the phone records of news organizations is out of control.

And Atrios gives us “The Worst Person in the World“:

Rahm Emanuel

It seems Rahm plans to close 54 public schools and six mental health centers but is going to hand over more than $100 million to DePaul University for a new basketball arena. Genius move. I hope Chicago wakes up and gives this clown the boot in the next election. I have no idea what Chicago voters were thinking when they elected him in the first place.  

Cross posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette

The main purpose our blogging is to communicate our ideas, opinions, and stories both fact and fiction. The best part about the the blogs is information that we might not find in our local news, even if we read it online. Sharing that information is important, especially if it educates, sparks conversation and new ideas. We have all found places that are our favorites that we read everyday, not everyone’s are the same. The Internet is a vast place. Unlike “Punting the Pundits which focuses on opinion pieces mostly from the mainstream media and the larger news web sites, “Around the Blogosphere” will focus more on the medium to smaller blogs and articles written by some of the anonymous and not so anonymous writers and links to some of the smaller pieces that don’t make it to “Pundits” by Krugman, Baker, etc.

We encourage you to share your finds with us. It is important that we all stay as well informed as we can.

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Chris in Paris and John Aravosis at Americablog gives us some good news on the aftermath of the deadly tornado in Moore, OK:

• OMG Oklahoma tornado victim interviewed about losing her dog in rubble, when she spots her dog
• Heartwarming videos of parents reuniting with kids at Oklahoma school destroyed by tornado

Then from John, the uglier side of this tragedy from the “Me, But Not For Thee” crowd:

• Oklah. GOP Senator takes own constituents hostage, demands budget cuts or no tornado aid
• Anti-Sandy-relief GOP Oklahoma Senator: Aid for my state is “totally different” than Sandy

Over at Corrente, lambert‘s marathon ObamaCare Clusterf**k continues with:

• The “unbanked” are 27% of those eligible for ObamaCare, and may be denied coverage because they have no way to pay that insurance companies will accept
• Today’s rollout compared to Medicare’s

At FDL’s Newsdesk, DSWright fills us in on the news that we missed while the MSM is reporting the disaster. No, folks, the idiocy in politics and the changing canvas of the “Scandal-Gate” has not stopped:

• White House Changes Story On IRS Knowledge Again
• New Head Of CIA National Clandestine Service Featured In Wikileaks Cables On Torture Case
• Occupy Our Homes Activists Arrested At Justice Department Headquarters

From Jon Walker at FDL Action:

• Poverty Among Senior Citizens is Worse than Official Numbers
• Obama Gives Civil Liberty Abuse a Bipartisan Seal of Approval

Kevin Gosztola continues his reporting on “Reporter- Gate” and the Bradley Manning trial at FDL’s The Dissenter:

• When the Justice Department Pursues Reporters as Spies
• Government Accepts Bradley Manning’s Plea to Lesser Offense Related to Disclosure of Diplomatic Cable

From the many contributors at MyFDL:

• CIA: An Idea That’s Time Has Gone by David Swanson
• Jamie Dimon’s Sleazy Record by masaccio
• Changing My Recorded Gender With DOD by Autumn Sandeen

From the contributors at Grist here are just a few of today’s really interesting features:

• Fourth-grade filmmaker sneaks a camera into the cafeteria to document his gross school lunch by Susan Laskow
• Bill aims to tackle climate-caused health problems by John Upton
• Utilities for dummies: How they work and why that needs to change by David Roberts
• Manhattan to see more killer heat waves by John Upton

And finally, Charles P. Pierce gives Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse a Big Bravo. Both Charles and Atrios make note of a possible “band reunion” of sorts:

Bring the band back together.

   The president should announce that he has told the Justice Department to appoint an independent investigator with bulldog instincts and bipartisan credibility. The list of candidates could start with Kenneth Starr, who chased down the scandals, real and imagined, of the Clinton presidency.

They learned nothing.

The stupid just burns.

Cross posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette

The main purpose our blogging is to communicate our ideas, opinions, and stories both fact and fiction. The best part about the the blogs is information that we might not find in our local news, even if we read it online. Sharing that information is important, especially if it educates, sparks conversation and new ideas. We have all found places that are our favorites that we read everyday, not everyone’s are the same. The Internet is a vast place. Unlike “Punting the Pundits which focuses on opinion pieces mostly from the mainstream media and the larger news web sites, “Around the Blogosphere” will focus more on the medium to smaller blogs and articles written by some of the anonymous and not so anonymous writers and links to some of the smaller pieces that don’t make it to “Pundits” by Krugman, Baker, etc.

We encourage you to share your finds with us. It is important that we all stay as well informed as we can.

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Paul Krugman at his blog Conscious of a Liberal want to know Where Are The Deficit Celebrations?.

This is your Obama DOJ at work protecting us from an 83 year old nun and two pacifists, from transcriber at Corrente:

• In which an 83-year-old nun is convicted of terrorism, her weapon is white roses, and the jury is not allowed to hear a former Attorney General testify in her defense: It’s nukes in America

also from lambert:

• Unlike Michelle Obama, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with aspiring to be a rapper

From Gaius Publius at Americablog:

• Pressure building on OFA over Keystone Pipeline betrayal

At Crooks and Liars, Mike Lux writes about foreclosure protestors demanding that Attorney General Holder hold the Wall Street Banks that ravaged America’s economy accountable:

• The Courage to Put Yourself on the Line

From Suzie Madrak:

• Are The Deficit Hawks Actually Trying To Starve Us Now?

and by David:

• Iowa Senate Republican Staffer Fired After Reporting Sexual Harassment

At FDL Action, Jon Walker on health care:

• Poorly Designed Employer Mandate Could Lead to Problematic Gaming
• Projected Government Health Spending Down Almost a Trillion Since Deficit Hysteria Began

Over at naked capitalism, Dan Kervick:

• Did the House of Representatives Just (Unintentionally) Eliminate the Debt Ceiling?

David Dayen:

• SEC Convenes Foot-Dragging Roundtable on Rating Agency Reform, While Securities Issuers Return to Familiar Rating-Shopping Tricks

From our friends at Voices on the Square:

by Robyn:

• Pentagon acknowledges transgender veterans

and JayeRaye:

• Hellraisers Journal: IWW strikers sing on their way to jail after mass arrest.

And in case you hadn’t turned on the TV or Radio, a huge, deadly tornado swept through Moore, Oklahoma leveling the suburb of Oklahoma City.  

Cross posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette

The main purpose our blogging is to communicate our ideas, opinions, and stories both fact and fiction. The best part about the the blogs is information that we might not find in our local news, even if we read it online. Sharing that information is important, especially if it educates, sparks conversation and new ideas. We have all found places that are our favorites that we read everyday, not everyone’s are the same. The Internet is a vast place. Unlike “Punting the Pundits which focuses on opinion pieces mostly from the mainstream media and the larger news web sites, “Around the Blogosphere” will focus more on the medium to smaller blogs and articles written by some of the anonymous and not so anonymous writers and links to some of the smaller pieces that don’t make it to “Pundits” by Krugman, Baker, etc.

We encourage you to share your finds with us. It is important that we all stay as well informed as we can.

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Today at Corrente, we have lambert with a question about his garden and an interesting chart from Bonddad:

• Gardendote of the Day 2013-05-16
• Political risk increased when conditions improve, not when they are at their worst

and from libbyliberal:

• Obama, the F-word, & the Criminalization of News-Gathering

Dean Baker is going on vacation but for he left he gave us something to chew on:

• How Much Money Do You Need to Get an Op-ed in the Washington Post?
• There Are No More Bangladeshes

Gaius Publius on the climate at Americablog:

• Atmospheric CO2 at highest levels in 3 million years

From the Electronic Frontier Foundation, news on the next round of talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP):

• Secretive TPP Talks Re-Commence in Lima, Peru: They Can Shut Us Out, But They Can’t Shut Us Up
  
  by Maira Sutton
• We Beat Them to Lima: Opening a New Front Against Secret IP Treaties
  
  by Danny O’Brien

At emptywheel:

• The Internet Didn’t Kill the Middle Class; Laxity and Apathy Did
  
  by Rayne
• hat Is the Attrition Rate for Afghan Special Operations Forces?
  
  by Jim White

At FDL’s The Dissenter, Kevin Gosztola:

• The Obama Administration’s Propensity for Chilling News Sources

and Jon Walker at FDL Action:

• More Signs Obama Will Likely Approve Keystone XL
• We Just Have to Take Holder’s Word That He Recused Himself From AP Case
• At Least Washington Isn’t Talking About the Grand Bargain Anymore

At RH Reality Check:

• Why Is El Salvador Letting a Woman Die?
  
  by Marianne Møllmann, Amnesty International
• Yes, Abortion Is a Women’s Issue, and Yes, More Male Allies Are Welcome
  
  by Erin Matson, Editor at Large, RH Reality Check

Contributor Jaye Raye at Voices on the Square has a on going series on unions and human rights:

• Hellraisers Journal: Our food and child labor, USA.

Charles P. Pierce on grifter Michelle Rhee, climate change and Missouri at Esquire’s Politics Blog:

• The Continental Grift
• Because It’s There, Just Less Of It Than There Was
• Missouri Goes Crazy

Atrios named Michael Kinsley his Wanker of the day and Charles Pierce thinks he needs to shut up. Take a hint, Mike.

And the last words from Atrios: Deficit Panic

The real deficit panic is about the possibility that it might go away, making it slightly more difficult to engage in a program of poors kicking.

Cross posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette

The main purpose our blogging is to communicate our ideas, opinions, and stories both fact and fiction. The best part about the the blogs is information that we might not find in our local news, even if we read it online. Sharing that information is important, especially if it educates, sparks conversation and new ideas. We have all found places that are our favorites that we read everyday, not everyone’s are the same. The Internet is a vast place. Unlike “Punting the Pundits which focuses on opinion pieces mostly from the mainstream media and the larger news web sites, “Around the Blogosphere” will focus more on the medium to smaller blogs and articles written by some of the anonymous and not so anonymous writers and links to some of the smaller pieces that don’t make it to “Pundits” by Krugman, Baker, etc.

We encourage you to share your finds with us. It is important that we all stay as well informed as we can.

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There is something going on other that the “Three Gates.”

From our friends at Corrente, economics contributor, letsgetitdone:

• Mr. President, End Debt Ceiling Hostage-taking for Good!

and a note from lambert about the outage at FDL that has been off line since yesterday. We are keeping out fingers crossed that Jane gets her server issues resolved soon. You can follow Jane’s tweets here for the latest on the site.

At AMERICAblog, from John Aravosis:

• Minnesota to become 12th state to legalize gay marriage
• Benghazi bombshell: Email supporting GOP “conspiracy” theory is fake

(I know I said no “gates” but it’s John)

and from Gaius Publius:

• Keith Ellison: “I don’t care what party you’re in. I’m in the Social Security party.”

David Dayen writing at New Republic, tells us how smarter shareholders are becoming activists and are about to claim their biggest “scalp”:

• Guerillas in the Boardroom

At his blog, Beat the Press, Dean Baker:

• Credit Rating Agencies Likely to Evade Dodd-Frank Provision to End Conflict of Interest
• Trade Deficits and the Dollar

From CounterPunch:

• The End of QE?
  
  by Mike Whitney
• The Elusive Minimum Wage
  
  by David Macaray
• The Real Gatsby
  
  by David Rosen

From the gang at Crooks and Liars:

• RNC Hispanic Outreach Chief Quits, Registers as Democrat
  
  By Susie Madrak
• Sen. Franken to Speak at SEC Roundtable on Credit Rating Industry Reform
  
  By Heather
• The 182 Percent Loan: How Installment Lenders Put Borrowers in a World of Hurt
  
  by  Paul Kiel, ProPublica

From the contributors at Grist:

• Vermont House passes GMO-labeling law by John Upton
• Occupy the Farm movement rises again, hours after being raided
  
  by John Upton
• London may soon be drinking recycled sewage
  
  by Sarah Laskow

Mike Konszal at The Next New Deal:

• Beta: Universal Basic Income Calculator

At New Economic Perspectives, Dan Kervick:

• Money, Taxes and What We Can Afford

The last words from Charles P. Pierce on The Clan of the Red Beanie and Responsible Gun Ownership.

Cross posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette

The main purpose our blogging is to communicate our ideas, opinions, and stories both fact and fiction. The best part about the the blogs is information that we might not find in our local news, even if we read it online. Sharing that information is important, especially if it educates, sparks conversation and new ideas. We have all found places that are our favorites that we read everyday, not everyone’s are the same. The Internet is a vast place. Unlike “Punting the Pundits which focuses on opinion pieces mostly from the mainstream media and the larger news web sites, “Around the Blogosphere” will focus more on the medium to smaller blogs and articles written by some of the anonymous and not so anonymous writers and links to some of the smaller pieces that don’t make it to “Pundits” by Krugman, Baker, etc.

We encourage you to share your finds with us. It is important that we all stay as well informed as we can.

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From Atrios, the scandal you won’t hear of today, or any other day:

Gaius Publius at Americablog, tells us how to become an activist by asking a question:

• Henry Waxman will support Chained CPI in trade for “things we want”

But just what is it that “we want”?

At Corrente, lambert‘s litany of the Obamacare Cluster F**k continues:

• ObamaCare Clusterfuck: Kremlinology
• ObamaCare Clusterfuck: Is Ross Douthat dumb enough to be a “progressive”?
• ObamaCare Clusterfuck: The IRS scandal and the ObamaCare “eligibility engine”

Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, gives a history of the similarities of Syria and Iraq:

• History Lessons the West Refuses to Learn

Also at Counterpunch, Binoy Kampmark on the effect of drone attacks on US/Pakistan relations:

• Stopping the Drones

On the failing American health care system, and Obama’s FHFA nominee Mel Watts, Yves Smith at naked capitalism:

• Coming Corporate Control of Medicine Will Throw Patients Under the Bus
• Mel Watt, Nominee to Head FHFA, Opposes Administration by Voting to Deregulate Derivatives

From Voices on the Square, contributors Cassiodurus and JayeRaye:

• Socialism is like total equality y’know.
• Hellraisers Journal: Big Bill Haywood exposes “The Rip in the Silk Industry.”

Jeralyn Merritt at TalkLeft, gives a peak at Dzokhar Tsarnaev’s conditions of confinement and the cost of a death penalty prosecution of Aurora Theater Shooting defendant James Holmes:

• Details on Dzokhar Tsarnaev’s Solitary Confinement
• The Cost of James Holmes Death Penalty Prosecution

From Grist, Sarah Laskow bursts a healthy fast food myth:

• Sorry, Jared, Subway food can be just as bad for you as McDonald’s

and from Sarah Miller, what could be eating your house:

• Hand-sized, house-eating snails show up in Texas

Charles P. Pierce in his wry wit at Esquire’s Politics Bog sums up the latest obsessions of the Sunday talking heads and the latest in the bizarre world of Rand Paul:

• What Are The Gobshites Saying These Days?
• Somebody Hit Bill Keller’s Knee With A Hammer
• Rand Paul’s Big Weekend

Cross posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette

The main purpose our blogging is to communicate our ideas, opinions, and stories both fact and fiction. The best part about the the blogs is information that we might not find in our local news, even if we read it online. Sharing that information is important, especially if it educates, sparks conversation and new ideas. We have all found places that are our favorites that we read everyday, not everyone’s are the same. The Internet is a vast place. Unlike “Punting the Pundits which focuses on opinion pieces mostly from the mainstream media and the larger news web sites, “Around the Blogosphere” will focus more on the medium to smaller blogs and articles written by some of the anonymous and not so anonymous writers and links to some of the smaller pieces that don’t make it to “Pundits” by Krugman, Baker, etc.

We encourage you to share your finds with us. It is important that we all stay as well informed as we can.

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At Voices on the Square, contributor Glinda gives us the latest bill by the House Republicans to screw workers:

• H.R. 1406: A Republican Bill to Upend Overtime Pay for Workers

From Gaius Publius all about big, bad corn at Americablog:

• Corn is bad for your body, your car & the environment

At his blog, Conscience of a Liberal, Paul Krugman is trying to understand why the hedge funders are mad at Fed chair Ben Bernanke:

• I Am Become Ben, Destroyer of Worlds

and on Japan’s break up with austerity:

• The Moral Equivalent of Space Aliens

Need a job? Lambert at Corrente wants to know if Hillary supporters can apply for it:

• Equal opportunity employment at Daily Kos

and the continuing saga of the horrors of the ObamaCare Clusterfuck:

• CO rollout campaign doesn’t mention ObamaCare
• California exchange spending and contractors exempted from open records law

Also at Corrente, libbyliberal:

• Libby’s Stew: Gitmo & Obama’s Alarming Inertia

At FDL Action, Jon Walker alerts us about more shortcomings of Obamacare:

• “The Pool” Doesn’t Exist, That Is the Real Problem
• The Insanity of What Hospitals Charge and the Solution No One Is Talking About

At FDL’s The Dissenter, Kevin Gosztola reports on the FBI’s disregard of civil liberties and US drone policies:

• ACLU Obtains Documents Showing FBI Doesn’t Always Get Warrants Before Reading Emails
• Congressional Progressive Caucus Holds Hearing on US Drone Policies

Marcy Wheeler at emptywheel, on why some people just can’t atop digging:

• Harold Koh Relitigates the Argument He Already Lost

What Charles P. Pierce at Esquire’s Politics Blog said: On War Powers

and what Atrios said:

I’d love to be able to explain Benghazi to you all, but other than it has something to do with an Arkansas land deal gone bad I really have no idea.

Cross posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette

The main purpose our blogging is to communicate our ideas, opinions, and stories both fact and fiction. The best part about the the blogs is information that we might not find in our local news, even if we read it online. Sharing that information is important, especially if it educates, sparks conversation and new ideas. We have all found places that are our favorites that we read everyday, not everyone’s are the same. The Internet is a vast place. Unlike “Punting the Pundits which focuses on opinion pieces mostly from the mainstream media and the larger news web sites, “Around the Blogosphere” will focus more on the medium to smaller blogs and articles written by some of the anonymous and not so anonymous writers and links to some of the smaller pieces that don’t make it to “Pundits” by Krugman, Baker, etc.

We encourage you to share your finds with us. It is important that we all stay as well informed as we can.

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Paul Krugman on austerity and the deficit at Conscience of a Liberal:

• The Fix the Debt Fix Is Still In
• The Dwindling Deficit

At naked capitalism, Yves Smith exposes the latest string of lies from our new Treasury Secratary:

• Jack Lew’s Nose is Getting So Long He Needs a Hacksaw

At Corrente, lambert has another eye opener about the ObamaCare Clusterfuck:

• “Accountable Care Organizations” to throw “non-compliant” patients under the bus

and some thoughts on Hypermasculinity:

• One more reason Big Media is a public health hazard (with remarks on masculinity and fear)

At Beat the Press, economist Dean Baker continues to document what is wrong with The Washington Post:

• Why Does the Post Think It’s Bad News that the Republican Budget Strategy is Falling Apart?

and the decline in working hours:

• Someone Notices the Decline in Hours

Contributor Harry at Crooked Timber asks:

• When is copying not plagiarism?

Elise Gould at the Economic Policy Institute on the impact of health care costs:

• Increased health care cost sharing works as intended; It burdens patients who need care the most

Atrios pointed out this article at Think Progress:

• North Carolina May Force Teens To Get Notarized Parental Consent Before Getting STD Tests

And at Techdirt, Tim Cushing on the NYPD trashing civil liberties:

• NYPD Sergeant Says ‘Guilty Until Proven Innocent’ Is Just The Price We Pay For A ‘Free Society’

and from contributor Mike Masnick on just how low IP owners can go:

• Intellectual Property Owners Association Against Helping The Blind Because It Would ‘Set A Dangerous Precedent’

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At Beat the Press, Dean Baker gives a lesson in logic:

• Economics 101 for WAPO: Supply and Demand in the Labor Market

At Conscience of a Liberal, Paul Krugman, defends his role in the ’08/’09 stimulus debate:

• The Stimulus Debate, Revisited;

and dissects John Maynard Keynes’ views on the liquidity trap:

• Keynes’s Not So Big Mistake.

From Marcy Wheeler at emptywheel continues to document the war crimes:

• Brennan Cedes to Feinstein on Torture Tape Destroyer But “Defiant” on Torture Report;
• Human Rights Groups: Don’t Let John Brennan Cover Up the Torture He Condoned.

Two articles by Jon Walker at FDL Action on Medicare:

• Study Takes on the Myth of Medicare Cost-Shifting;
• Why Insurance Exchanges Won’t Work: People Don’t Like Choosing Insurance

From Yves Smith at naked capitalism, an article by Robert H. Wade, a Professor of Political Economy, London School of Economics and a winner of the Leontief Prize in Economics for 2008:

• Our Misleading Measure of Income and Wealth Inequality: The Standard Gini Coefficient

While the news media has been gushing over guns, Benghazi (again) and the three women rescued in Cleveland, OH, the House of Representatives has been really busy aiding and abetting grand theft by the banks and Wall St., as noted by DSWright at FDL News Desk:

• House Moves To Gut Derivatives Regulations Again

Finally Charles P. Pierce at the Esquire’s Daily Politics Blog:

• Good Guys Are Not Bulletproof