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No pumpkin for pumpkin pie?
America Blog 3 hours agoNoooooooo! If you can find a fresh pumpkin, it's amazingly easy to prepare it for pie filling and it will taste better than the can.
Juvenile coelacanth filmed for first time
America Blog 8 hours ago It wasn't long ago that people thought this fish had been extinct for 80 million years. The fish is living in Indonesian waters and it's not alone.
Greetings from Barcelona
America Blog 11 hours agoThis picture is much better blown up, but still, I like it - it was the view from the conference room where we had my panel discussion today about the blogs and their influence, and it's got a bit of a futureworld meets old Europe - which is very much Barcelona, and this conference (Personal Democracy Forum - Europe).
Goldman shareholders asking for bonus cuts
America Blog 13 hours agoI've been wondering how long it would take before shareholders turned on the excessive costs of payouts.
Crisis in US women's leadership
America Blog 15 hours agoJohn met someone promoting equality for the new EU cabinet but as I mentioned earlier, we need to do much better with promoting women.
Dallas Fed President: stop 'coddling' and break up 'too big to fail'
America Blog 16 hours agoHallelujah.
Fisher suggested the only way of ensuring that such financial giants do not pose recurrent problems is by making them smaller.
Friday Afternoon Open Thread
America Blog 17 hours agoIt's a crazy day and John is having some internet connection challenges so pitch in and let everyone know what's happening.
South Carolina discussing impeachment for Sanford
America Blog 18 hours agoCouldn't happen to a nicer person. AP:
South Carolina lawmakers plan to formally consider impeaching Gov.
Teabagger infighting leading to chaos
America Blog 20 hours agoSplintered and infighting? Who could have imagined? Even more surprising is the claim that there is little management experience within the fractured group.
Democrats call for review of Federal Reserve
America Blog 21 hours agoAbsolutely. Clearly there is a danger in politicizing Federal Reserve decisions but looking at how the Fed handled the bailout of AIG and Wall Street, it's difficult to see how much worse it could have been.
Online campaign takes on gender inequities in EU government
America Blog less than a day agoI'm sitting in the hotel lobby in Barcelona talking to an interesting English guy, Jon Worth, who, along with a small group of friends, just launched a campaign to push for more women on the European Commission.
EU chooses Belgian as president
America Blog less than a day agoMaybe invading a country and partnering with George Bush wasn't such a great idea for Tony Blair after all.
More Franken-food on the way
America Blog less than a day agoSorry, but no thanks. If the question is really about feeding more people, vegetarian is a much better option.
Democrats pushing for food safety overhaul in 2010
America Blog less than a day agoAmazingly enough, everyone is on board with the biggest change in decades. The Republicans pushed the country to its limit with problem after problem and so now, even industry is calling for more regulation.
The Postal service is, or isn't, shutting down its Santa letter program
America Blog less than a day agoOne of the worst stories ever written by AP. Depending what paragraph of the story you read, the US Postal Service either is, or isn't, shutting down the "write a letter to Santa" program, and letters to Santa either will, or won't, be shredded.
George Bush: Terrorists should be tried in U.S. Courts.
America Blog less than a day agoVia Greg Sargent:
With Republicans hammering the Obama administration for trying suspected 9/11 terrorists in a New York court, a Democrat points out that in 2006, George W.
Rudy isn't running for Governor of New York
America Blog less than a day agoAfter that stellar presidential run, Rudy Giuliani has apparently decided not to run for Governor of New York:
It was not clear what prompted the decision, but the prospect of potentially facing Attorney General Andrew M.
Rep. Conyers criticizes Obama, Rahm on health care
America Blog less than a day agoRep. John Conyers (D-MI) in Huffington Post:
"I'm getting tired of saving Obama's can in the White House," said Conyers.
Calls from Congress to fire Timmy and Summers
America Blog less than a day agoThe news never gets better when it comes to Larry Summers or Timmy Geithner. It's always about another TARP fiasco or whatever Wall Street wants.
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