Hot off the Press: Out with the old edition

I have bookmarked The Guardian since The Times requires an online subscription and the BBC can sometimes be a bore. (I will have to get Bobblehead's opinion of this, but I assume he will say it was inevitable.) Interestingly, here is a column espousing a common criticism he has about conservatives and mainstream red Republicrats: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/aug/16/republican-party-doublethink-hadley-freeman.

The Premier League is pricing out its fans: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/david-conn-inside-sport-blog/2011/aug/16/premier-league-football-ticket-prices.

After having an original take over bid rejected by board of directors, SABMiller is going directly to Foster's shareholders to gain control: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14554391.

Stephen Colbert talks shit about Des Moines' WOI after the station pulled one of his Super PAC ads: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110817/NEWS/108170302/Stephen-Colbert-pokes-fun-at-Iowa-TV-station. Hilarious.

"The blazing infernos which took hold in the UK's biggest cities have shocked British society. It wasn't a desire to protest that drove the brutal looters onto the streets, but pure consumer greed. Bankers, politicians and media moguls have made this greed socially acceptable": http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,780537,00.html.

The legislature in Utah has banned mini-kegs: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/08/utah-bans-mini-beer-kegs-the-chubby.html.

A recent rash of luxury car burnings in Berlin has police scratching their heads: is it left-wing political protest or just copycat arsonists?: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,780965,00.html.

Remember last week when I posted a link to the article announcing the purchase of a 5 percent stake in John Deere by an investment fund owned by Bill Gates? I threw out some imagined conspiracy theory about automated farms and riderless tractors and combines. Well, this DMR article asks, "Are drone tractors the future?": http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110821/BUSINESS01/108210305/Are-drone-tractors-the-future-. Imagine it: a veritable robotic assembly line on farmland.

A breakdown of why 46 percent of Americans pay no federal income tax: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/why-do-half-of-all-americans-pay-no-federal-income-taxes/2011/07/11/gIQA8olBuI_blog.html.