The usual crap behind BP's "surprise" problems with the pipeline

Here's something that will really surprise WTW readers: (1) BP had every reason in the world to know that their damn pipeline was about to rust to pieces, (2) BP's cost cutting contributed to the problem, and (3) they didn't care because that pipeline wasn't subject to regulation.

Another piece of security getting wiped out

WTW has covered the dire condition of private pension funds both here and in the United Kingdom, as well as the likelihood that many American families are going to be left high and dry (at the mercy of their Social Security benefit).  Now "they" are working on public employee pensions, too.

New options for 50-year mortgages, 10-year car loans and 30-year student-loan payments

Just can't get enough of debt?  Feel unwanted without harassing calls from unpaid creditors?  You're definitely living in the right country.

Rapture, rapture, where you been?

Raw Story reports on a piece from Max Blumenthal at The Nation about meetings at the White House...

Bob Ney finally glimpses reality and withdraws

Bob Ney has been slowly roasting in a large pan full of Abramoff's Fine Olive Oil.  Today he announced his intention to exit that pan by withdrawing from his bid for reelection to the House of Representatives (though he's still subject to the fire of criminal prosecution for being Jack the Flack's House Flunky).

Hey, the kids are alright

Lots of progressives voice fears that the kids in the U.S. just don't understand what's being done to the country.  I've probably bemoaned that very thing as I looked around a political meeting to find that I, in my 50s, was one of the youngest people present.  But...

The White House Comedy Club

If you wondered where tomorrow's absurdist comedians are coming from, quit wondering; the White House is a fertile training ground.

Big Money Lies And Those Jobs Just Fly

Here we go again, more proof that those wanting "unrestricted trade" are full of....

Neal Boortz, certified dunce

Every shill should have an apprentice, don't you think?  Well, O'Reilly has one in Neal Boortz, the talk show host and all-round blithering dunce.

No, That Is Not The Booze Talking

I am somewhat amazed at the furor over a certain celebrity getting busted for DUI, and then, according to the stories, said certain things....