- The Shutdown in 10 Infuriating Sentences
- Obama seizes on GOP remarks to blame Tea Party for shutdown
- How the White House sees the shutdown (and debt ceiling!) fight
- Obama Just Played His Big 'Trump Card' On The Debt Ceiling
- G.O.P. Stand on Debt Gives Checkbook to Obama—"If you are trying to play the hostage game, it generally makes sense to point the gun at someone else's head, not your own." NYT
- Majority Disapprove of Shutting Down Government Over Health Law NYT
- Right-wing media on shutdown: "Let the crisis continue" Salon
- John Boehner's turn to give in—"Republicans in Congress are like a dog that chases cars and finally catches one. There is a fleeting sense of accomplishment, followed by sheer panic."
- Obama: Boehner's Fear Of GOP 'Extremists' Keeping Gov't Shut Down
- Harry Reid On John Boehner: 'He's A Coward!'
- Washington's Other Car Crash: Obama vs. the Boehner Rule
- Frustrated Republicans Pressure Boehner to End Shutdown
- Restless House Republicans look to Speaker Boehner for direction
- Boehner pulled from two directions
- Republicans are losing the shutdown blame game
- Report: Closed-Door GOP Meeting With Cruz Turned Into 'Lynch Mob'—"According to the Times, Cruz did not disavow the attacks nor did he offer a strategy for the defunding effort, prompting Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to join the criticism of the freshman senator."
- Fighting for the Sake of Fighting—"Continuing in a fight simply to avoid the embarrassment of admitting that the fight was always pointless is absurd."
- We're No Longer A Democracy, We're An Idiocracy
- The Republican Hardliners Aren't Conservatives, They're Radicals—"The legislators driving the direction of the GOP aren't interested in smart, limited government. They're aiming to eviscerate even the parts that work well."
- Republicans, in thrall to the tea party, are ignoring their duty to the nation
- What does the tea party want from shutdown? A hug—"The tea party keeps moving the goal posts."
- Maddow: A history of Republican’s ‘cry-baby hurting the country as part of a tantrum’ narrative
- Mansplaining congressman tells CNN host: 'You're beautiful,' but 'you're part of the problem'
- Flipside: Charlie Dent, GOP Rep., Seeks To End Government Shutdown Without Obamacare Rollback
- People Are Calling This Obamacare Insurance Exchange in Tears—"They were calling up saying, 'Can I get my coverage today so I can see my doctor this afternoon?'" Unfortunately, not until the first of January.
- No, Doctors Don't Hate Obamacare
- A Population Betrayed—"Republican-led states leave many of their poorest citizens without health insurance." NYT
- Mississippi blues: The cost of rejecting Medicaid expansion
- Why Conservatives Are Saying Obamacare Could Take Your House
- GOP legislator: Boehner won't let government default on its debt
- GOP Member Floats Ending Sequester In Exchange For Entitlement Changes
- As government shutdown persists, focus shifts to debt limit
- Former Speechwriter For President Bush, Marc Thiessen Admits Republican Plan Is To Crash The Economy With Debt Ceiling
- Where Right-Wing Media See Obama "Scare Tactics," Economists See Looming Financial Disaster
- Government shutdown: NASA turns 55 – and turns out the lights
- Arizona highway through Grand Canyon closed—"The highway initially was also left open for through traffic, but it was closed after visitors disregarded the closure. While the highway was open, some motorists pulled off the highway and moved barricades to peek at the canyon, while tour buses parked roadside and pedestrians darted across the highway." That's why you can't have nice things.
- Biden calls park ranger: 'I'm proud of you'
- How the Shutdown Is Devastating Biomedical Scientists and Killing Their Research
- Troops Forage for Food While Golfers Play On in Shutdown
- BBC NewsNight: Glenn Greenwald full interview on Snowden, NSA, GCHQ and spying—As he says, it's "as much about journalism as surveillance."
- The Woman Who Knows the NSA's Secrets
- NSA chief says agency tested tracking US cellphone locations, but leaves that to FBI
- Former NSA Director Jokes About Putting Snowden On A 'Kill List,' Says He 'Hopes' NSA Is Involved In Targeted Killings
- How a telecom helped the government spy on me—"Some personal reasons to doubt US ISPs, telecoms commitment to customer privacy."
- Egyptian girl, Aisha Mustafa, invents new space propulsion system
- Video: Moan hoax... not
- Vincent van Gogh's "Starry Night" made from about 3,500 Hubble images
- Black hole Big Bang theory: Did the universe start with a braneworld white hole?
- xkcd: Pale Blue Dot
- No, Mars Won’t Be as Big as the Moon. Ever.
- More than 100,000 want to go to Mars and not return, project says
- Out of this world: giant supervolcanoes found on ancient Mars
- Curiosity Rover Makes Big Water Discovery in Mars Dirt, a 'Wow Moment'
- Shutdown cuts science out of Mars rover trek
- How volcanoes shaped Britain's landscape
- Largest Volcano On Earth Lurks Beneath Pacific Ocean
- Island emerges near Gwadar coast after earthquake
- Voyager 1 has left the solar system, says new study
- Voyager In Space: Carl Sagan Golden Record Project From 1977
- NASA probe hears "shriek" in space as it leaves solar system
- J.J. Abrams Apologizes for Star Trek Lens Flare
- Leonard Nimoy On The Vulcan Salute
- Star Trek Into Darkness Gets an Honest Trailer–And How It Should Have Ended
- Simon Pegg Pranks Everyone on Set of Star Trek Into Darkness, Continues to Be the Best
- Star Trek Actors Past and Present Combined—Pine + Shatner = hnnnngh.
