| Aug 14, 2013 | Economy / BusinessAmazon’s bezillionaire CEO is buying The Washington Post, America’s second-most prestigious daily newspaper. Jeff Bezos only had to pay $250 million, less than 1 percent of his $28 billion personal fortune. Has plutocracy finally overwhelmed our press?...
| | Food / FarmingRuth Bourdain of Twitter fame has been revealed! If you’re like me, you had no idea there ever was someone named Ruth Bourdain on Twitter, or that she was a satirical character made up by an anonymous — but very funny — prankster. Now that “her”...
| | Rights / DemocracyAre you tired of hearing nothing but the corporate news and mainstream views on commercial, mass-market radio? Well, go get your own station! That’s not as preposterous as it might sound, thanks to a freelance, free-range, free-form collective of mostly young...
| | Environment / HealthWarming doesn’t Bother me, Just turn up The old A/C. Expensive news, everyone: The worldwide cost of the melting Arctic ice may total up to $60 trillion dollars, according to a University of Cambridge study. That’s nearly a year’s worth of global...
| Aug 13, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyWell, finally! Hard-right congressional leaders and the Obama White House ultimately agreed that interest rates on student loans should not double to nearly 7 percent, as they let happen early in July. Instead, college students will be billed at a rate that will...
