Something to Make Everyone Happy

Just in time for the holidays:
A number of retailers and manufacturers have a gift for holiday shoppers: product packaging that will not result in lacerations and stab wounds.
The companies, including Amazon.com, Sony, Microsoft and Best Buy, have begun to create alternatives to the infuriating plastic “clamshell” packages and cruelly complex twist ties that make products [...]

Prop 8 Protesters Use Fear and Intimidation

It has been 10 days since voters in California passed Proposition 8 with 52.5% of the vote.  In the days that followed, opponents of Prop 8 took to the streets to express their outrage over their loss.  They have accused the entire black community in California of bigotry, they have demonized the Mormon church for [...]

LA Times and CA Secretary of State Enable Prop 8 Protesters

We learn in the LA Times today about very targeted demonstrations against supporters of Propostion 8 in California.  
For example:
Hundreds of protesters converged on El Coyote on Beverly Boulevard on Wednesday night, and the picketing got so heated that LAPD officers in riot gear had to be called.
All because Marjorie Christoffersen, a manager there and [...]

Postponing the Inevitable Bailout II

Tucked into a New York Times article about GM’s dwindling hopes of a bailout today:
…hope among many Democrats on Capitol Hill for an aggressive economic stimulus measure [has] all but evaporated. Democratic leaders have been calling for a [$100 billion] package that would include help for the auto companies as well as new spending on [...]

No Bailout for GM?

New York Times today:
The prospects of a government rescue for the foundering American automakers dwindled Thursday as Democratic Congressional leaders conceded that they would face potentially insurmountable Republican opposition during a lame-duck session next week.
…some industry experts fear that one of the Big Three automakers will collapse before [president-elect Obama takes office], with potentially devastating [...]