Archive for July 12th, 2008

Los Angeles Times
The federal government took control of Pasadena-based IndyMac Bank on Friday in what regulators called the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history.

Citing a massive run on deposits, regulators shut its main branch… Continue reading

David Michael Green

Runway

You know your empire’s crumbling when you weaken your currency until it looks as anemic as a Paris runway model, and you’re… Continue reading

Mike Finch

A net-neutrality activist group has uncovered plans for the demise of the free Internet by 2010 in Canada. By 2012, the group says, the trend will be global.

Bell… Continue reading

TriCities

Nearly everyone carries a cell phone and it’s hard to find one without that camera feature.  It’s convenient when you want to take that impromptu photo… Continue reading

TIME 

The Netherlands, with its permissive marijuana laws, may be known as the cannabis capital of the world. But a survey published this month in… Continue reading