Category Archives: blather

i should just shut up

Yes, Virginia. Your Government is fucked up.

It’s not a question of big government or small. The real question is “should government be a commodity.”

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Obama 3, McTrainwreck 0

Nuff said. (via Warren Ellis)

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Alaska Inquiry Concludes Palin Abused Powers – NYTimes.com

Sweet Jesus it must suck to be John McCain right now. Not that I feel much pity for the man, but wow. Things are not going smoothly for team Maverick. There were two stories in the news all week. One was the nascent gobal economic crisis and ...

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Credit Crisis Primer

Douglas Rushkoff is a smart dude. He smart enough to be way better at explaining the root causes of our current quandary than I would be. If you'd like a pretty concise explanation of how we got into this mess you'll find it in this article. He wrote it in May of 2008 for

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The bailout failed because it was dumb

Parts of this post are re-posted from a rant just unloaded on the Whitechapel board. I've obviously been stewing on this for a while now. The $700 billion bail out of the troubled financial system failed in congress because it was a dumb idea. The sooner we can all accept that and move on, the sooner we ...

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Failout: Unjust Enrichment

OK. I'm not a financial guru but this smells a little like shit to me: (e) PREVENTING UNJUST ENRICHMENT.—In making purchases under the authority of this Act, the Secretary shall take such steps as may be necessary to prevent unjust enrichment of financial institutions participating in a program established under this section, including by preventing the ...

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Maybe McCain is the unqualified candidate

Look. If you are reading this I probably know you and you probably already know that I think Sarah Palin was a calculated pick designed to distract attention from weaknesses of a D-list GOP candidate. The tactic has been remarkably effective, but like all shell games it is ultimately destined to fail. It's no big secret ...

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what’s in a name?

The following is a list, in no particular order, of people I work with that have cool names: Gardenia Willoughby Kerith Lemon Tahiti Starship Fish McGill Keane Angle You wish you had a name as cool as these.

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quick bursts

Neil Gaiman is going to write him some Batman. But he's not talking about it. My best friend Joe just became BFFs with Aaron Sorkin and I am extremely jealous. Pandora is my new favorite toy. Last week I watched Dr. Horrible and was once again amazed at Joss Whedon's ability to mash two ...

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Criticism of Medias Energy Coverage

Howell Raines of Portfolio.com takes the news media task for behaving like the oil industries lap dog in a criticism of the medias energy coverage. The most chilling part of this article may not be the fact that an entire generation of reporters--weaned on Reaganomics--willfully follow the red herrings of corporate P.R. What ...

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