Old Jaanix Posts

President Clinton's final few days in office

Bottom line: Taxpayers are now on the hook for a record $59.1 trillion in liabilities, a 2.3% increase from 2006. That amount is equal to $516,348 for every U.S. household. By comparison, U.S. households owe an average of $112,043 for more...

Rock group Arctic Monkeys have become the latest music industry stars to question whether the performers taking part in Live Earth on Saturday are suitable climate change activists. "It's a bit patronising for us 21 year olds to try to more...

It seems that someone at CNN suffered a nasty Freudian slip while captioning the video report about Blair's resignation.

Progressive film director Robert Greenwald is scheduled to testify at a hearing on Thursday, May 10 about war profiteering. He requested to show a few minutes of one of his films, but Republicans blocked his request. Here’s what Congress won’t more...

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Role-playing games, libertarian politics, radio production ... Is there something this guy doesn't talk about?

A number of years ago I got the idea of putting together a volume with the title "Ideological Policing in Contemporary Feminism." The episodes leading to this intention are by now a bit vague in my mind, but they included more...

To learn something at the office can be difficult. But to refrain from learning something requires years of practice and refinement. It's an office skill that Steven Crawley finds indispensable. "The inability to grasp selective things can be very helpful more...

A 27-year-old quadriplegic man sentenced to serve ten days in a Washington, DC jail on charges that he possessed a minor amount of marijuana died while in custody last week due to inadequate health care, including prison officials' failure to more...

"We ve had a lot of really hardworking Americans you know sign up for loans and the truth of the matter is they probably didn't fully understand what they were signing up for. And therefore I do believe it's the more...

TBILISI, Georgia: The presidents of Georgia and Estonia on Monday vowed to stand together in the face of angry rhetoric and threats from Russia, which has targeted both ex-Soviet republics in recent months.