Newsweek is running this story, reprinting a letter in its entirety from Larry Johnson—a former CIA officer–blasting Tenet for his failure to take responsibility for his role in pre-war intelligence falsifications. Mr Johnson’s letter, first appearing on his blog here, rightly decries Tenet’s complicity in the Administration’s selective use of intelligence to drum up [...]

Treehugger has a post about the imminent arrival of Phoenix Motorcar’s all-electric and Plug-In Hybrid (PHEV) Sport Utility Trucks (SUT).
If you are lucky enough to be a California resident, you can join the waiting list to purchase a Phoenix car at an as yet undisclosed price. The SUT will be available in a plug-in [...]

Evidence is surfacing that the same private servers used by the Ohio Secretary of State’s department to track 2004 presidential election results also host the RNC email accounts illegally used by Rove and other White House staffers to discuss government business outside official channels. If true, this could be a big mistake on someone’s [...]

“– what I know — what I know — I heard concerns raised by Mr. Rove. And what I know today — what I don’t recall, the specific mention of this conversation, I recall the meeting — is that there was a meeting in October with the president in which the president, as I understand [...]

DaimlerChrysler has announced a new 2007 design for the increasingly popular Sprinter cargo van. These are amazingly popular in Cascadia (doubtlessly more so in Europe in the form of the Mercedes Sprinter), we saw them everywhere last summer.
Now the failing Dodge division is showcasing this successful van by offering a plug-in hybrid version, and [...]

Can you say obstruction of justice? It appears to be Karl Rove’s favorite phrase, and this time it might just bite him in the proverbial ass.
“The White House acknowledges it cannot find four years’ worth of e-mails from chief political strategist Karl Rove.”
After being forced to admit that the White House tacitly allowed the [...]

The charismatic and prophetic Kurt Vonnegut passed away yesterday at age 84. His were some of the earliest books I ever read to start me thinking about the sublime and laughable nature of our reality.
“Live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.”

Josh Wolf secured his release yesterday, after serving the longest imprisonment term of any U.S. journalist ever for withholding information from prosecutors. Wolf agreed to turn over his video footage of a 2005 protest in exchange for immunity from testimony at a grand jury trial that potentially seeks to indict some of the protesters [...]

This is all over the news today so I won’t belabor the point, but the Supreme Court’s decision that the EPA has authority to regulate green house gases from automobiles and other (coal) sources is a huge victory for the environment that can’t be understated. The EPA will be hard pressed to sidestep regulation [...]