Today Is the Day to Vote For Virginia's Rapping Sheriff
Today is election day! It is at best the second-most important election day of the next 12 months and also the only election of the next 12 months to feature a rapping sheriff.
Black People Cleaning Up White Guys' Messy Citi
In good times, white dudes like Sandy Weill, Charles Prince, and Bob Rubin ran Citigroup. Now that the world's most tentacular megabank is running aground, who's working the buckets? People of color.
America's CTO does infomercial for Obama
In exchange for his late-to-the-party endorsement of Barack Obama, Google CEO Eric Schmidt got a spot on Obama's prime-time infomercial last night. Note how Schmidt explains his decision, made only after Obama took a substantial lead in the polls: "When I read his economic plan
and saw the people endorsing it, Warren…
Q: Does Texas law now require PC repair techs to get a private investigator's license? A: Sometimes
Internet libertarians and Texas-haters are eagerly piling on a new Texas law that they claim requires all PC repair techs to obtain a private investigator's license. Infurating? Yes. True? Not really. The bill's author has spent the day sighing to reporters that the law amends existing occupations code by defining…
American journalism student Twitters from Egyptian jail
After Egyptian police arrested UC Berkeley graduate student James Karl Buck for photographing a demonstration, he alerted his friends around the world with a Twitter message from his phone: "Arrested." Soon after, reports the Mercury News, the American embassy and an Egyptian lawyer hired by Berkeley contacted Buck…
Is Europe a country? Don't ask Apple
Is Europe a country? The question puzzled gameshow contestant Kellie Pickler. And now even the European Commission seems confused. Apple has appeased the pangovernmental body by offering Britons the same price for iTunes downloads as the Continentals. But the original complaint remains unaddressed: Why can't…
