December 2011
November 2011
Dear Skyrim,
I am addicted to you. Completely and utterly. In the two weeks we’ve been together, I’ve had more “whoops, it’s four a.m.” moments than I care to admit. I’ve logged probably close to sixty hours playing you, nearly two days’ worth on Jaqen H’Ghar, my level 36 Dark Elf assassin-with-backup-magic, and I haven’t even scratched the surface of the...
WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR: Secret Fed Loans Gave... →
soupsoup:
Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B
The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn’t mention that they took tens of billions of dollars in emergency loans at the same time they were assuring investors their firms were healthy. And no one calculated until now...
The violent police assaults across the US are no... →
Naomi Wolf
guardian.co.uk, Friday 25 November 2011 12.25 EST
US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting,...
jakesrightleg:
Woman given 3-year prison term for food stamp... →
wilwheaton:
A Rankin County mother will serve more time in federal prison for lying on her food stamp application than a group of people recently sentenced in a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme.
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[Judge] Wingate bypassed sentencing McLemore under federal guidelines that suggested she receive two to eight months in prison and would have made her eligible for probation. He instead...
