Over at The Atlantic, Megan McArdle dismantles the notion that taxpayers should consider the carmaker's return to profitability as vindication for the bailout. Read the whole link-rich piece for ...

If you're a text messaging company serving thousands of clients (including Rick Warren's Saddleback Church), having your short code blocked by a wireless carrier is a death knell. But the ...

So Squarespace, which does hosting and other webby stuff, is doing an iPhone giveaway via Twitter. Basically all a Twitter user needs to do is enter the #squarespace hashtag into a tweet and then he ...

It’s a searing indictment from the Los Angeles Times — a scathing investigation this past week into how the legalization of marijuana in California has actually led to a boom in illegal pot farms, ...

I've been pretty mellow about the deficit commission, which I've thought might do some good but would almost certainly do no harm. But Brian Beutler's report on the commission is starting to freak me ...

Some of you among us may know the phrase, “Don’t harsh my mellow.” Basically, it means, “Don’t rain on my parade (i.e. amazing levels of mortgage transactions and income) with your harsh attitude (i.e ...

We never quite get there, though. We don’t seem to be grappling with the fact that this kind of volatility is rapidly becoming the new normal — or that we are totally unprepared. If the public does ...