The political bias of the US mainstream media is measured by the amount of coverage it gives to budget proposals: lots to the right-wing, and almost none to the left-wing.

It is self-defeating for a pension fund, whose purpose is to provide for workers decades from now, not to divest from fossil fuel companies.

The article compares the slowly roasting biosphere with the quickly burning World Trade Center, but we need to keep a sense of proportion when comparing occurrences of such different scale. The September 2001 attacks in New York City were small when measured against the size of the United States; their main damage was secondary, via the evil it provided the excuse to unleash. Global heating will kill some of your neighbors if not you.

If the prediction of 100 million deaths from global heating by 2030 is realized, that will be the equivalent of around 33333 World Trade Centers. If we spread this over the 202 months from now through the end of 2030, that comes out to around 165 WTCs per month.

However, in reality this damage won't be spread evenly in time. It will be concentrated near the end. Global heating may be killing only a few WTCs a month in most months today, but by 2030 it may be killing a thousand WTCs a month.

Obama is doing a good thing: trying to limit loans to for-profit colleges.

Over 20% of their graduates default because they can't get jobs after graduating from the programs they attend because the colleges assure them they will get jobs.

I think the US would be better off if it did not allow for-profit colleges.

The big US telcos have received hundreds of billions of dollars so they could "afford" to wire the US for broadband, but nobody made them promise to actually do the job, so they want to skip it.

A similar thing happened in the Tokyo train system: the train companies were allowed to increase ticket prices so they could "afford" to replace two-track lines with four-track lines, but a decade later most of them had not even started.

The error here was to presume that businesses would act in good faith.

Partition of Libya Looms As Fight for Oil Sparks Vicious New Divide.