The back-story is rather complicated, involving an online scam that got so big the FBI couldn’t shut it down the ordinary way, and it begins about five months ago: Last November, the FBI and other authorities were preparing to take down a hacker ring that had been running an Internet ad scam on a massive […]
Eli Sanders
Eli Sanders is The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won this, but he also once crashed his bike into a parked car while on his way to a staff meeting, never mind this, so… His website, which probably hasn't been updated in a while, is www.elisanders.net.
Posted inScience!
Americans Believe Global Warming is Making the Weather Crazier
Now we’re getting somewhere: A poll due for release on Wednesday shows that a large majority of Americans believe that this year’s unusually warm winter, last year’s blistering summer and some other weather disasters were probably made worse by global warming. And by a 2-to-1 margin, the public says the weather has been getting worse, […]
Posted inTech
Farewell, Sweet Razr
R.I.P. A week ago, I was one of these people. If I was calling or texting (or sexting), it was being accomplished via a scratched up Motorola Razr V3 that I’d been using for something like five years. No, I was not ashamed. The old thing still fit neatly in my pocket, slim, unobtrusive, a […]
Posted inElection 2012
Seventeen Minutes in Re-electable Heaven?
As briefly touched upon in GMN, here is the last four years, as recounted by Obama for America in its new campaign video, The Road We’ve Traveled:
Posted inPolitics
Limbaugh, Busted
Really? Is now really the time to honor Rush Limbaugh—or even his bust—with an official spot in the Hall of Famous Missourians? If the leader of the Missouri House has his way, the broadcast icon soon will be in the company of Harry Truman, Walt Disney and Stan Musial. Also in the company of Mark […]
Posted inElection 2012
The Oppo File on Mitt Romney
Hey, look what turned up online: Something that appears to be John McCain’s entire opposition research book on Mitt Romney from 2008. “I thought becoming rich and famous would make me happy,” Romney is quoted as saying on page 200. “Boy was I right.”
Posted inElection 2012
Florida, Ohio, and Pretty Much All the Rest
I watched When Mitt Romney Came to Town last night. It’s pretty devastating, but the thing that most caught my attention was the first state the attack-film zooms in on: Florida, where Romney’s company took over an industrial washing machine company and, 400 slashed jobs later, sold the company to Canadians for a 230 percent […]
Posted inPolitics
Obama to Name Consumer Protection Chief While Congress Is Out of Town
About time: President Obama will challenge Senate Republican foes of the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by naming Richard Cordray as its director while Congress is out of town, according to a senior administration official. That would allow the agency to establish new regulations over financial institutions, putting into effect elements of the financial […]
Posted inPANIC!
Just Theoretically Speaking, Does North Korea Have a Missile That Can Hit Portland?
Yes it does. (Theoretically speaking.)
Posted inElection 2012
Obama’s Teddy Roosevelt Moment
If, like me, you missed the president’s 99-percent-focused speech in Osawatomie, Kansas yesterday, here’s the video: Osawatomie, this is not just another political debate. This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class, and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class. Because […]
Posted in$$$
Another Way to Look at the Wealth Gap: Young People vs. Old People
Obviously, older Americans are going to have more money than younger Americans. That’s just how life generally goes—you start with nothing and accumulate personal wealth as you age. Still, the wealth disparity between older Americans and younger Americans is not supposed to be this wide: The typical U.S. household headed by a person age 65 […]
Posted inElection 2012
Obama Campaign to Embrace Part of the Occupy Message
Paul mentioned earlier that President Obama gave a subtle shout-out to the Occupy movement over the weekend. The people who are running Obama’s re-election effort, however, are being a lot less subtle: “We intend to make it one of the central elements of the campaign next year,” Obama senior adviser David Plouffe said in an […]