The story of Steve Slater, the flight attendant who made a dramatic exit from his profession via an airplane intercom and an emergency slide has already been beat to death in the media. He’s part folk hero, part stressed out employee who took things to far, part lawbreaker. Slater’s actions, be they over the top [...]

Perhaps you’ve heard about the writer who moved in next door to Sarah Palin? Apparently he is in the midst of some kind of scandalous tell all book about her and has taken up residence in her hometown in pursuit of stories.
Resorting to her characteristic histrionics, Palin immediately took to her [...]

On Thursday, the Supreme Court handed electoral politics over to corporations, who will undoubtedly spit in the court’s face and sue it for not giving them their right to blatently buy elections sooner. In a 5-4 decision handed down by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and backed by five Republican presidential appointees, the court [...]

Once again, the government is finding a way to use Twitter and other social networking platforms as tools to curtail civil liberties. Elliot Madison and Michael Wallschlaeger of Queens, New York were arrested on charges of hindering apprehension, criminal use of communication facility and possessing instruments of crime. The charges stem from Madison and Wallschlaeger [...]

In a Pittsburgh Post Gazette interview, president Obama said that he would be open to looking at the Newspaper Revitalization Act, a bill proposed to help bail out fledgling papers by restructuring them into non-profit organizations. Search anywhere on the internet and you can find any number of supporting and critical articles of the bill. [...]

The ultra conservative right wing kicked off the Values Voter Summit today in DC promising to “take the country back” from – well, anyone who’s not an ultra right wing conservative. If the world didn’t seem filled with so many hot headed gun toting neocons today, I might look at this as a great comedic [...]

America’s health care shouting match is igniting a new debate on toting weapons at protests. When I think of weapons at a rally, I’m often reminded of some news coverage the night demonstrators (full disclosure – myself included) took Lake Shore Drive in 2003 during the protests against the Iraq war. Over 800 demonstrators and [...]