The story of concussion injuries and their link to depression, dementia and suicide first came to my attention in a series of reports by National Public Radio in March. The story seems have gotten legs following the suicide death of Andre Waters and the public comments of retired linebacker Ted Johnson, who suffered two [...]

Some excellent grassroots media coverage has developed over ex Justice Department official Monica Goodling’s testimony in front of Congress and where this investigation may lead to. BBC reporter and investigative journalist Greg Palast claims that the firing of eight prosecutors was ultimately not so much to get rid of the attorneys as to replace [...]

Monica Goodling is delivering her congressional testimony today, and I can’t wait to see what comes out of it, though the initial report seem to indicate that she is shifting blame to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty.
Rampant executive branch cronyism is just too blatant to be ignored by Congress anymore. Goodling, a recent graduate [...]

I’m gleeful over the news that Attorney General Gonzales’ former aide Monica Goodling is being compelled to testify in front of Congress about the firings of US Attorneys, as reported by Bloomberg here. May she tell the truth.
In other exciting congressional action, the director of Iraq for Sale gave testimony yesterday before the Defense [...]

Yet more (albeit silly) proof that White House officials believe they can continue to lie with impunity. On my Wednesday commute I heard an NPR report on Bush’s address to the American General Contractors Association, where he answered a question about his veto of the latest war funding bill from Congress with a classic [...]

Enough pressure has been brought to bear on Apple, Inc. for them to publish a Jobbs’ memo on the company’s plans to greenify there manufacturing process.
Although somewhat sensationally vilified by Greenpeace, Apple can and should improve its manufacturing processes wherever possible. Kudos to Apple and especially to all the grassroots internet advocates who forced [...]

A bit of Internet history is being made tonight, as digg.com is getting hammered by thousands upon thousands of angry users in response to the site’s deletion of recent posts including the DVD decryption key (DRM) for HD-DVD discs for Linux.
I noticed the first stirrings of this controversy Monday night when I saw a post [...]

President Bush vetoed the Congress’s Iraq War spending bill today, objecting to the included timeline for withdraw. Given all the wrongheaded predictions of the administration’s war machine to date, I’m not hopeful that the justification for this decision is predicated on any less shaky of an argument.
Politically, Bush has little interest in [...]