Los Angeles band “Dragon’s Mistress” announced Monday that they are close to making it big and they’re ready to take “this thing” seriously.  Lead singer, Tara Sinister, made the statement via a posting on Craigslist titled “LA metal band seeks guitarist and bass player”.  The post revealed that while Dragon’s...

This is originally from Dr. Housing Bubble’s blog, and re-posted on Zero Hedge, both of whom I highly recommend for reading on the real state of the economy. They both do an excellent job of presenting the facts and real trends that are unfolding before our eyes as the economies around the world implode one by one. The following is one of Dr. Housing Bubble’s most recent blog posts, that I feel encapsulates very well, how fucked the housing market really is, why the major pieces that would signal a recovery are not even remotely close to being in place, and what key signs to look for if the housing market were to recover. But to be honest, it looks pretty bad…you be the judge: The California housing market sits in an odd stage of limbo. You can see that the public for the most part is fully aware of...

by Brandon Smith from Alt-Market How To Become An American Extremist In Style! For most of us in America today, childhood was a time of vast and unassailable dreams.  What we could become, what the world could become, was limited only by the strength of spirit setting aloft our ideas, and this strength, as all young people instinctively know, is infinite.  While the possibilities of the future seemed boundless, few of us, including myself, ever considered “political extremism” as a viable lifestyle decision.  Astronaut?  Maybe.  Filmmaker?  Sure.  Enemy Belligerent?  Not so much… While each of us is ultimately a product of our own decisions and internal choices, even beyond the influences of our environment, the cultural atmosphere of our age certainly determines the manner in which we are able to express our individual character.  The brilliant and talented are sometimes cast into roles of poverty and obscurity.  The obscene and...

So there I was, making my daily commute, going through the radio stations and hoping to find something decent to listen to.  I must have arrived at a station that had something I was looking for and then that song ended and something new began. “Great, another chick band…” went...