The Washington Post has a nifty interactive infographic that shows who sits on the committees that advise the administration on trade negotiations. And although nobody can accuse me of being a pollyanna about the influence of business on trade agreements, even I was a bit stunned by just how corporate-heavy the committees are.

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I was gratified, and surprised, by T-Mobile’s announcement a year or so ago that they were planning to offer the sort of plan a consumer would actually want: Cheap, you’re not forced to stay for two years, you don’t keep paying for the same phone forever, you don’t pay fees for going over your […]

So, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has decided to stop bashing Healthcare.gov. “It will eventually work and work well,” he said.

But Coburn warned that the law would still have problems, thanks to the “centralized management” of the federal government, which is “inefficient, most of the time ineffective, oftentimes complicated by fraud or incompetence.”

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Open Culture is an awesome website that I’ve been frequenting ever since I found out about it. It’s devoted to bringing together all of the interesting, free things on the internet that you’d never find otherwise. So, younger readers, it’s like a cat video site, but it’s not all videos, and the videos are […]

So, seeing the apoplectic outrage of the right wing about losing the filibuster in certain limited situations (an overdue rap on the knuckles considering how the filibuster has been abused in recent years), I thought I’d repeat something from a post I made two years ago during the first bullshit debt limit crisis. That […]