State retirement boards all over the country are sinking millions of retirees' investments into a fund whose biggest asset, Atria assisted living, treats retirees like garbage and pays its workers nothing. How did this perfect circle of suck come to be?

<p>Workers at Atria nursing homes suffer low pay and brutal conditions, leading to bad treatment and neglect for the seniors who live there.Meanwhile, Lazard boss Bruce Wasserstein makes off with a pay package in excess of $100 million.</p>

The latest edition of "FCC Watch," your guide to all things going on with the Federal Communications Commission, contains useful nuggets of info on the agency's comings and goings in the news. Read and enjoy!

The signs of life from the Democratic Senate in opposing FISA may give way to a compromise of approving telecom immunity in exchange for passing the housing legislation. We shouldn't have to compromise one set of protections to preserve another.

Banks are trimming credit lines even as consumers have less and less cash to pay for necessities. The end result will be an economic collapse brought on by greed, shortsightedness, bad law, and lack of oversight.

The Associated Press' takedown notices to bloggers over using their content is another case of an incumbent using bad business tactics to threaten competitors with fewer resources. Don't let them decide what news you do or don't link to.

The agreements passed in both New York state and France to block access to newsgroups and sites that contain objectionable content are noble on the surface. But they could lead to some serious chilling of free speech online as well.

You can respect John McCain's military service and heroism and still criticize him for the many shady actions he's taken since then. Here's a sampler of some of the low-down things he has done.

In an exclusive development, Boztopia.com has obtained confidential internal emails from Tribune Company owner Sam Zell, detailing his plans for massive cutbacks in journalism staff and paper size through "reducing column inches."

Hispanics--both legal citizens and illegal immigrants--are suffering high levels of unemployment as the housing and construction sectors continue to collapse. Will we continue to demonize them, or can we pursue a better path?