john in sacramento

Seriously

DARPA, the Pentagon tech bureau which has conferred upon a suffering human race such boons as the internet, the stealth bomber and the night-vision goggle, has finally made a bid to achieve that which humanity has yearned for above all other things. We refer, of course, to a laser weapon sufficiently portable to be carried on the head of a shark.

“The risk is that we are planting the seeds of the next financial crisis,” said Roubini, chairman of New York-based research and advisory service Roubini Global Economics.

I Met the Walrus, Oscar nominated short

The Ghost of Tom Joad by Bruce Springsteen accompanied by Tom Morello

Poignancy in pictures

Make sure to watch this before the Sunday talk shows

This. is. awesome.

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YOU can END the Death Penalty in California. It'll only take a few minutes. The final day for Comments is June 30. Watch the video and follow me over the flip

Semper fi

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George Lakoff has a message for California legislative leaders below.

Also here's a youtube of California State Assembly Budget Committee Chair Noreen Evans debunking the myths and lies of the state budget.

PS Why is it that Republicans never have to compromise?