So many articles like this one do a mediocre to decent job explaining The Financial Crisis, but what I really hate is that these explanatory articles still do not get to the facts of who is to blame and why. For example, there are reasons why the unholy marriage between investment and retail banking didn’t exist before 2000. Fingers [...]
All this no-bate, yes-bate, some kinda-bate debating has whipped everyone into a frenzy. What questions do Americans want to see? What tactics? Here is a good NYT rundown previewing what to look for; here are “8 questions the debate will answer” from the Washington Post.
But there is one question nobody is asking: tequila or vodka?
For [...]
One of the main problems with working in advertising is that we’re often asked to operate under extremely short time constraints. Sometimes the content of an ad depends on events that happen after your deadline. Essentially in the future. When this occurs you typically create multiple versions of your ad and send them all to [...]
Pentecostals are a Christian sect whose most prominent charcteristic (other than the low entry barrier for ministerial ordination) is a penchant for ecstatic gibberish. In the video that’s been making the rounds (see below) Sarah Palin’s Pastor Muthee prays in English, but I still feel like his message is hard for layfolk to discern. Because [...]
PINKO DAILY BRIEFS: It’s Friday! Here’s what’s up: There is no bailout package yet so we’re still going to have a great depression. The conventional wisdom now is that McCain going back to DC may have actually tanked the proposed bailout. My thought: Republicans are holding up the bailout so they can pass it later [...]
I was thinking over dinner about the amazing interview Sarah Palin gave about Russia. And then I was thinking about Risk, and how everyone know the way you win Risk is by quietly invading North America via Alaska through Kamchatka and that you have to defend that border or your society is swiftly annihilated, and [...]
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“The fact that human adults consume huge quantities of dairy products made from milk that was meant for a baby cow just doesn’t make sense,” says PETA Executive VP Tracy Reiman “Everyone knows that ‘the breast is best,’ so Ben & Jerry’s could do consumers and cows a big favor by making the switch to [...]
So I’m sitting here watching the latest Palin CBS news interview clip and I’m just going to shoot myself in the goddamn face and end it all. Also I’m trying to figure out where to watch the cocksucking debate tomorrow and if there will even be one because John McCain is having a mild stroke [...]
Hi kids. Today we are going to learn how a hastily drawn up bill becomes a law we can never overturn! All together now:
National crisis +
congressional session coming to a close +
perceived sense of urgency +
fear +
no accountability +
no understanding of why this crisis happened =
cash monies from us to the government.
This cash money can [...]
If you are one of the 13 people who still own your home and if that home is located in Vermont, you win! According to the New York Times, your electricity just might come from cow manure. Dairy farms have begun stockpiling the manure, fermenting it into methane, and then using fermented farts to turn a [...]
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