Who ya got?
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008September Madness, too big to fit here.
(Hat tip to my brother)
Archive for September, 2008
This isn’t helping my “don’t panic” plan
Monday, September 29th, 2008The Rogue Columnist:
“For the first time in my life, I’m afraid for our country.”
[...] You know the high points: most of us are doing worse now than eight years ago, and it’s becoming clear that the next generation may well see lower living standards that its predecessor. Has that ever happened in America? [...]
It’s a wollif! It’s a wollif!
Monday, September 29th, 2008I’ve been noticing this, so I enjoyed Leonard Pitts pointing it out in his elegant and punchy way. It is sort of grimly amusing to hear the Bush administration going “PANIC PANIC PANIC” and everyone else going “Yeah, we’ll get back to you on that.” I guess we have all learned something in the last [...]
Some imagined repartee from last night’s debate
Saturday, September 27th, 2008… courtesy of Dennis Perrin:
MCCAIN: (whispering) I’m taking you out, gook boy.
OBAMA: (whispering) Step up, cracka.
Whut? A free market doesn’t magically do the right thing?
Saturday, September 27th, 2008Via Atrios, a NYTimes article about the closure of a “voluntary supervision program” for Wall Street investment banks by the SEC chairman:
“The last six months have made it abundantly clear that voluntary regulation does not work,” [chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission Christopher Cox] said in a statement. The program “was fundamentally flawed from [...]
Art with an agenda
Saturday, September 27th, 2008Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
– Attributed to Samuel Goldwyn
On its face, a very Philistine thing to say. And yet, after finishing two novels with agendas recently, I’m more than a bit sympathetic. To be sure, every piece of art has a message, intentionally or not; but I [...]
Joke of the day
Friday, September 26th, 2008Number of Google hits in the last week for “suspend[ing] this|my blog”: 250+
In case you weren’t already freaked out by the Palin Couric interview …
Thursday, September 25th, 2008… here’s a little twist from Diana Butler Bass over at Progressive Revival:
For most of the twentieth century, American evangelicals and Pentecostals believed that the Anti-Christ would, most likely, come from Russia–as would the army to lead the Anti-Christ’s legions at the Battle of Armageddon. With great regularity, fundamentalist and Pentecostal pastors identified Soviet [...]
Define “suspended”
Thursday, September 25th, 2008Jamison Foser on Media Matters’ “County Fair” recommends we take the McCain campaign’s announcement with a pound of salt:
This is really simple: John McCain has not suspended his campaign. His campaign staffers are on television, attacking Barack Obama. His ads are still running. His campaign offices are still buzzing with activity.
He. [...]
Your government at work
Thursday, September 25th, 2008Fred Clark has already pointed out that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s request to Congress for $700 billion was in the form of a three-page memo, and that at the Congressional hearing the secretary “admitted that he had only a rough idea of how his department would price and purchase toxic mortgage-backed securities” (The Guardian).
Now Forbes.com [...]
