According to a BBC News Report, a couple in Florida have paid 150,000 pounds for a commercially cloned dog [the narrator clearly says pounds; that is $214,505 American -ed.]. Lancelot Encore* is reportedly an exact genetic copy of the family pet which died last year ( Read more... )

Consider the mutual implications of those thoughts in the context of the state of our economy. Starbucks casts a wide net in both cities and suburbs, the concentrated centers of population and wealth compared to small towns and rural areas. If people in familiar service positions in the most robust parts of our country are at risk of losing jobs ( Read more... )

Yeah, so there's this goddamn commercial on television with a bunch of honky crackers talking up how much the first Star Wars trilogy means to them personally, how they'd rim George Lucas and his plaid-colored taint at the drop of a hat, etc. etc.  As though it were necessary to make the case for the original trilogy of Star Wars.  (Sidenote: ( Read more... )

An excerpt from George W. Bush’s upcoming blog ( Read more... )

Black males born today have a one in three chance of going to prison during their lifetime, compared to a one in seventeen chance for white males. These trends have been exacerbated by the impact of the "war on drugs," with three-fourths of all drug offenders being persons of color, far out of proportion to their share of drug users in society ( Read more... )