monday reads

Powerful Earthquake Strikes Central Italy


Glenn Greenwald: There are no excuses for ongoing concealment of torture memos


Moyers Journal: Maddoff Was A Piker -- America's Big Banks Are a Far Larger Fraudulent Ponzi Scheme


Visit the George W. Bush Presidential Librarium. (h/t watertiger)


Take the 2009 State of the Republican Party Survey.

friday reads

The U.S. unemployment rate soared to 8.5 percent in March, the highest since 1983, as employers slashed 663,000 jobs and cut workers' hours to the lowest on record, government data showed on Friday.


Joseph Stiglitz: "It's going to be bad, very bad"


Michael Lewis: Wall Street on the Tundra


James Wolcott: What's Wrong with Washington

New NIN Album!

Strobelight



track list:
1. intro skit
2. everybody's doing it (featuring chris martin, jay-z AND bono)
3. black t-shirt
4. pussygrinder (featuring sheryl crow)
5. coffin on the dancefloor
6. this rhythm is infected
7. slide to the dark side
8. even closer (featuring justin timberlake and maynard james keenan)
9. on the list (she's not)
10. clap trap crack slap
11. laid, paid and played (featuring fergie of the black eyed peas and al jourgensen)
12. feel like being dead again
13. still hurts (featuring alicia keys)
14. outro skit