Don't know much 'bout economy...

But should I be worried?:

Cost of the Bush tax cuts.

Don't know much 'bout geography... of the US or the world (via Marcellina of The Practice Room).

Prepare for loss of brain cells

P Z Myers warns us.

An emphatic NO to business as usual

Around the world.

Is there ANY politician who hasn't been bought by the Koch brothers?

Herman 999 Cain is not just a millionaire who produced pizzas:

Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain has cast himself as the outsider, the pizza magnate with real-world experience who will bring fresh ideas to the nation's capital. But Cain's economic ideas, support and organization have close ties to two billionaire brothers who bankroll right-leaning causes through their group Americans for Prosperity.

His pizzas have Kochroaches.....

Looking up hopefully

NTodd of Dohiyi Mir and his family went to a protest.

Phila of Bouphonia offers his Friday hope post.

Excellent advice on what to do while protesting

How to protect yourself from an errant police baton and how to handle pepper spray.

Koch brothers? Meet FDR

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group,”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nobody could have predicted....

Herbicide-resistant superweeds overpowering crops

Farming costs, food prices and agricultural pollution may rise as a result of nature's strike back against a biotechnology that has revolutionized modern farming.

"Superweeds" resistant to the herbicide glyphosate, also known by the trade name Roundup, have infested millions of hectares of cropland through much of the U.S. and areas of southwestern Ontario.

That means farmers may no longer be able to reap the benefits of Roundup Ready crops, which are genetically modified to be resistant to glyphosate, allowing farmers to control weeds with the herbicide without harming the crops themselves.

So the end result is to add MORE chemicals and create more genetically modified crops which then will make the weeds evolve to handle those as well which means more chemicals ....

It adds a certain piquant flavor...

One reason I have cut back on seafood... the choices are pre-cooked radioactive fish from the Pacific or pre-oiled polluted and toxic seafood from the Gulf

New Study Says FDA Underestimated Seafood Contamination Risk After BP Oil Spill

Finally getting down to the basics

New GOP Bill Would Allow Hospitals To Let Women Die Instead Of Having An Abortion

The party of family values and right to life supports letting the hussy die.