512 points is actually pretty funny (if you don’t have any money in the market)
I know I shouldn’t, but each time the stock market votes on the debt ceiling, I laugh out loud. Which is rude, but on a personal level very gratifying.
More:
The Awl has charts
ThinkProgress with another chart
David Moberg on the debacle of it all
David Dayen on Euro fears
Gene Lyons on the true cost of W’s magical thinkering
Jane Hamsher: O between a rock and a hard place
Bob Collins: the economy in four acts (Bob’s been on fire since getting back from vacation!)
Matt Taibbi on evil corporate tax holiday deals
David Frum still questioning if conservatives know what they’re talking about (PW has a second-hand anecdote that speaks directly to this question)
Left behind (2007-2009) and the bargains they’re missing out on
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Politics:
WI Dems file felony complaints against the soon-to-be-recalled Alberta Darling
Wellpoint dumps $700k into Republican coffers for Wisconsin recall elections because that’s exactly what health insurance companies do with their profits
MN’s top vote suppressor in Nola for another ALEC conference [hey, it's the only place you can go to hear CO2 get praised]
Michael Lind follows up on his “South and the Tea Party” essay
Glenn Beck goes off the rails so often I’m not sure he remembers where the tracks are
Scott Bloch won’t go to jail after all, because fat white guys never ever seem to have to do the time (I probably shouldn’t complain about that….)
Norwegian Shooter is up for a primary
Becoming a co-sponsor doesn’t change the fact that our littlest Senator didn’t have the freaking courage to have an opinion on gay marriage until this week
The vast rightwing conspiracy is funded by a very small, very tight group of hard right billionaire assholes
The rise of violent incidents [5-minute video]
Mitt’s mystery donors (the Mormonati?)
J. Christian Adams makes up more shit and why should he care? it’s not like anyone reading Breitbart would ever factcheck a fellow Republican
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Etc.:
Infinite loops (for guys only, I guess)
176,000 lives a year isn’t genocide, but it’s certainly something
How the public gets screwed over by bad patent laws
If you like medical shows, you’ll love these pix of the Lamborghini factory
Death of a cat [cartoon, and be sure to click the red dot at the end] [via Waxy]
Sarah Michelle Gellar to do cameo on All My Children [more on her new show, Ringer]
Nipples (nothing you didn’t already know, but scientists get excited when they can prove things)
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