Do you grab a coffee from Starbucks (still) or has Dunkin' D become your staple? Best fries in our fast food nation? It's road trip season, so vote now in Walletpop's poll, What's the Best Fast Food Value?
Johann Hari | Posted July 2, 2009 | World
The ghost of the other, deadlier 9/11 has returned to stalk Latin America. On Sunday morning, a battalion of soldiers rammed their way into the Presidential Palace in Honduras. They surrounded the bed where the democratically elected President, Manuel Zelaya, was sleeping, and jabbed their machine guns to his chest....
The Yes Men | Posted July 2, 2009 | Entertainment
From Andy (the floating head on the left above the green letters):
A few weeks ago, I was telling an Israeli filmmaker friend how excited I was to be going to Jerusalem. Why are you coming to Jerusalem? he asked. Our film is in the Jerusalem International Film Festival,...
Noam Unger | Posted July 2, 2009 | World
Yesterday's Washington Post featured a front page article by Bob Woodward with the headline "Key in Afghanistan: Economy, Not Military." The article focused mostly on discussions National Security Adviser James L. Jones has been having with, well, our military on the ground in Afghanistan, and it did not include...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted July 2, 2009 | Politics
Last month, InsideDefense.com informed us that the Joint Requirements Oversight Council of the DOD had "approved a new requirement" for 5,244 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicles (MRAPs) for troops deployed in Afghanistan. "The original RFP [Request for Proposal] indicated the program could grow to include as many as...
Marshall Auerback | Posted July 2, 2009 | Business
Over the past few months, the dollar index has declined some 10 percent amidst repeated calls by leading creditor nations such as China for a new global currency. This has been a recurrent feature of Chinese-American financial diplomacy for several months now, as Beijing frets that their substantial dollar hordes...
Eric Alterman | Posted July 2, 2009 | Media
Crossposted with the Center for American Progress. With Danielle Ivory
For a conversation so self-evidently silly, last weekend's food-fight between The Washington Post's Dana Milbank and The Huffington Post's Nico Pitney on CNN's "Reliable Source" sure has excited quite a few people. *
Maybe it's because according...
Donna Fish | Posted July 2, 2009 | New York
Do you get to buy a SUBWAY sandwich, where the owner of the shop is one of the most acerbic, sarcastic, 'salt of the earth' and hilarious women on the planet! You might think in fact that you have landed at Caroline's Comedy Club rather than your local sandwich shop!...
Medea Benjamin | Posted July 2, 2009 | World
Our emergency international delegation to Honduras, organized from the United States by CODEPINK, Global Exchange and Non-Violence International, began its fact-finding mission in the wake of the June 28 coup that overthrew President Manuel Zelaya.
We started out with a briefing by the Network of Sustainable Development...
Doug Stanton | Posted July 2, 2009 | Politics
Of all the places I've been while talking to audiences about the U.S. Army's 5th Special Forces Group and their story in Afghanistan, one of the most rewarding was an appearance before the 5th Group soldiers themselves at Ft. Campbell, their home, and the place from which they had launched...
Helene Pavlov | Posted July 2, 2009 | Living
This is yet another great example of how imaging, specifically Ultrasound, can be used to diagnose and treat a common condition seen in runners.
Spring is here and runners, tennis players, golfers, roller bladers and other fitness enthusiasts will be out in full force. Unfortunately, many will likely experience aches...
Bill de Blasio | Posted July 2, 2009 | New York
The New York City office of Public Advocate is a desperately needed agent of oversight and accountability in New York City. Yet Mayor Michael Bloomberg has cut the budget for this office by 40% for fiscal year 2010, while he reduced the budget for his own office by just 1%....
Sen. Sherrod Brown | Posted July 2, 2009 | Politics
This morning, millions of people all over this country woke up hoping today isn't the day they get sick. Millions of Americans went to work wondering whether today would be the last day they get paid in a while. And millions sat up late last night at the kitchen table,...
Disgrasian | Posted July 2, 2009 | Style
The man responsible for Vogue editor Anna Wintour's signature helmet bob is a Malaysian-born Londoner named -- wait for it -- Charlie Chan. Even though he's a successful hairstylist, coiffing the likes of Wintour, Iman, and Simon Cowell, his hardass Asian mother would like him to get a...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted July 2, 2009 | Green
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: California wins one for a change; Where's the beef? Recalled!; Did EPA suppress study from global warming skeptic?... PLUS: Wingnuts lose it over cap-and-trade...All that and more in today's 'End of the World' Green News Report!
Got comments, tips, love letters, hate mail, E. coli burgers?...
David Quigg | Posted July 2, 2009 | Media
Today, just when I found myself musing that we can turn to Abraham Lincoln's exemplary life and leadership to guide us through any dicey situation, I spotted a story headlined "Naked Airline Passenger 'Remembers Nothing'."
We all have our limits. Lincoln's limit is that he left behind...
Carl Pope | Posted July 2, 2009 | Green
For eight years under George Bush, America's wilderness faced a systematic assault from the federal government. By the end of the first Bush term, more than 100 million acres that previously enjoyed federal protection had lost it.
Since last November's election, the Bush legacy has been unraveling, and the progress on...
Joshua Gleis | Posted July 2, 2009 | World
With all the talk of the "twitter revolution" and the role that technology is playing in the recent uprisings, one would think that technology is being used in revolutions for the first time. The truth is that it was the Islamists themselves who were the first to use technology for...
Stephen Ducat | Posted July 2, 2009 | Politics
We are no longer surprised that Republican scandals are so often ripe with the stench of hypocrisy. It is a fetor that frequently accompanies the predictable libidinous lapses of pious "family values" conservatives. Sanford, Ensign, Craig, Vitter, Haggard, Limbaugh, Gingrich, and Palin are only some of the more recent purveyors...
Patricia DeGennaro | Posted July 2, 2009 | World
Trying to save face, the Iranian government is scrambling to blame the latest post-election unrest on everyone except their own ineptness to count ballots and treat the Iranian people with respect. The current government, fearful of its own survival, undercut the nation's only ounce of democracy at the expense of...
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Andrea Chalupa | Posted July 2, 2009 | Off The Bus