...here's today's economic lesson. Language NSFW.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Seriously, They Want to Kill the Unions
Come, take a listen to what they're doing with our tax money.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
Today's Economic Lesson
Thank you, Prof. Krugman:
But the obvious cheap shots don’t pose as much danger to the Obama administration’s efforts to get a plan through as arguments and assertions that are equally fraudulent but can seem superficially plausible to those who don’t know their way around economic concepts and numbers. So as a public service, let me try to debunk some of the major antistimulus arguments that have already surfaced. Any time you hear someone reciting one of these arguments, write him or her off as a dishonest flack.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich...
With that last post, the category 'Butter' has finally overtaken 'Guns'.
Thank Obama!
Thank Obama!
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Obama: That's the Chicago Way.
Make no little plans
Two world's fairs. A river turned backward. Sweeping parks along the lakefront. Two or three of the world's tallest buildings. O'Hare Airport. Millennium Park.
The Olympics in 2016. (Bet on it.)
Big civic achievements don't happen by chance. There are reasons Chicago is not just another rusted-out postindustrial Midwestern city. Chicago's political culture, for all its money-grubbing corruption, has always been receptive to the next bold idea.
Obama is thinking big in that Chicago Way in Washington. He wants to fix the health care system, fix Social Security, fix the economy, fix the schools, fix everything.
He's bound to fail, of course. He can't fix everything.
Just as Chicago could not completely carry out its audacious Burnham Plan of 1909, a blueprint for transforming whole neighborhoods.
But without big plans, Obama won't fix anything.
Just as without the Burnham Plan, Chicago today would not have its extraordinary lakefront.
Breathe easy, America. Barack Obama picked up his politics in a crooked town, but he walked a straight line. He's not the first Chicago pol to go honest and he won't be the last.
C'mon, Portland!
You're not gonna hear this kind of stuff out of the Daley Administration:
Beau Breedlove...really?
I want to publicly acknowledge a mistake I have made and I want to apologize for it.
In the past, I have characterized my relationship with Beau Breedlove as purely non-sexual. That is not true. Beau Breedlove and I had a sexual relationship for a few months in the summer of 2005 after he turned 18 years of age.
I should have been honest at the time about the true nature of my relationship with Beau Breedlove when questions about my relationship with him first surfaced publicly in October 2007. In fact, Beau encouraged me to be honest about the facts of our relationship. I am deeply sorry that I asked him to lie for me.
I lied at the time because I was afraid that people would believe untrue rumors, being circulated by an undeclared mayoral opponent, that I had broken a law involving sexual relations with a minor. But this is not a good excuse.
Beau Breedlove...really?
Monday, January 19, 2009
The Best 10:48 of Your Day...
Unless, of course, you're BHO.
Ten minutes and forty-eight seconds of pure, psychedelic bliss:
This is part 3/3. Check out the other two in the Related Videos.
Ten minutes and forty-eight seconds of pure, psychedelic bliss:
This is part 3/3. Check out the other two in the Related Videos.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Taibbi Rips that Fool Friedman a New One
2. I wish I had the balls to first spend six long years madly cheering on an Iraq war that not only reintroduced Sharia law to the streets of Baghdad, but radicalized the entire Islamic world against American influence—and then write a book blaming the spread of fundamentalist Islam on the ignorant consumers of the middle American heartland, who bought too many Hummers and spent too much time shopping for iPods in my wife’s giganto-malls.
A brief cartoon illustrates the premise.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Albom Earns His Keep:
Incredible (from the former-Detroiter's pov) column from Detroit's Mitch Albom. I now officially forgive him for his earlier missteps:
"This is why our recent beatdown in Congress was so painfully felt. To watch our Big Three execs humiliated as if they never did a right thing in their lives, to watch U.S. senators from Southern states -- where billions in tax breaks were handed out to foreign car companies -- tear apart the U.S. auto industry as undeserving of aid, well, that was the last straw."
Friday, January 9, 2009
"Bankruptcy will be the new Nascar."
Jim Kunstler says welcome to 2009.
My hope for the year, at least for my own society, is that we will transition away from being a nation of complacent, distracted, over-fed clowns, to become a purposeful and responsible people willing to put their shoulders to the wheel to get some things done. My motto for the new year: "no more crybabies!"
Thursday, January 8, 2009
SeventyEleven Layers of Awesome
Part-Wilco, part-Radiohead, part-SplitEnz, part-Smiths/ModestMouse = wholly awesome:
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
The Gift That Keeps on Giving
Oh Levi, make up your mind. Baby needs food, needs skins for a roof. Only take what you need, millions of buffalo.
Why Leon Paneta is a Great Choice to Head the CIA
He worked in the Nixon Administration...and resigned.
Dead Stooges Don't Play Guitar
This is seriously terrible news, Ron Asheton of the Stooges dead. Long live the Stooges.
"He made the “Stooges' music reek like a puddle of week-old biker sweat. He favored black leather and German iron crosses onstage, and he never let not really knowing how to play get in the way of a big, ugly feedback solo."
Cuban on Buying the Cubs
The credit crisis hits everybody, even the billionaires. There's still one chance in a billion, though.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Speaking of the Financial System
Two must reads in today's NYT.
First, what went wrong with the financial system.
And B, how to fix it.
Let's be thankful that our new President knows how and likes to read.
First, what went wrong with the financial system.
And B, how to fix it.
Let's be thankful that our new President knows how and likes to read.
Re: Matt Millen on NBC
You got to read the comments on this article. Priceless stuff.
Pretty much what I was thinking the whole time.
NBC executives are idiots for inviting this idiot in and rubbing salt in the wounds of any and every Lions fan. It would have been bad enough to have to look at him next season but having to watch him less than a month after going 0-16 is ridiculous. What executive said hey let's get Matt Millen in here and let him talk about football and provide analysis through the playoffs. That guy should have been terminated on sight and forced to live with Millen in PA.
He is truly worthless and it can't even be about money since he is STILL being paid by WCF. They both are morons and deserve each other.
Pretty much what I was thinking the whole time.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
If Dave Knew Photoshop...
...this is what it would look like:
A. MAY. ZING. I used to think I was a Photoshop expert. Not anymore.
A. MAY. ZING. I used to think I was a Photoshop expert. Not anymore.
Friday, January 2, 2009
Shall We Put This Worn Argument to Rest?
Sept. 11 is the excuse for many of the Bush Administration's failures and disappointments. It is also the basis for the one great claim made on George W. Bush's behalf: At least he has protected us from terrorism. In the seven years since that day, there has not been another foreign-terrorist attack on the American homeland. The trouble is that there were no foreign-terrorist attacks on the American homeland in the seven years before 9/11 either.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
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