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Kagro in the Morning

Mar 13, 2014

The morning's chit-chat topic: Amazon Prime is raising its membership price, though the service has pretty much been a total bust for me, personally. Oh wells! Greg Dworkin poses the "Snowden Effect" question for the Pulitzers, and notes the growing Malaysian airliner mystery, "Americans Stick With Obamacare as...


Mar 11, 2014

Top Twitter talk of the day: President Obama on Zach Galifiniakis' "Between Two Ferns." Greg Dworkin discusses, and rounds up the New Yorker's profile of Peter Lanza, a big drop in the health care price index, the latest centrism/whatever tract, Boonstra debunked again, and a study showing pols vastly overestimate...


Mar 10, 2014

It's Daylight Savings Time, which of course means we wake up in the dark again, because the daylight industry is passing all the savings on to the Cayman Islands. Greg Dworkin is back, and he shines some of that saved daylight on "4 Myths About Daylight Saving Time," and new data on the drop in the numbers of...


Mar 7, 2014

Developments in the Oscar Pistorius trial are interesting, in what the reveal about "gun culture" without borders. FAT (Frequently Asserted Trolling) on GunFAIL, including the accidents versus negligence controversy, and what to say to the swimming pool trope. Other topics: Issa vs. Cummings; "Disarmed: How Cities...


Mar 5, 2014

We start with a peek at what's happening on the House floor today, including the latest stupidly-named Republican attempt at repealing Obamacare. Michele Bachmann is very sad that American Jews aren't doing her Christian bidding. The CIA apparently thought it was a good idea to monitor the computers used by Senate...