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  • Financial Crisis or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bailout

    When I first heard the term “Bailout” in 2008, I (and millions of Americans) thought to myself: “why should *my* tax dollars be given to these irresponsible and idiotic companies?”

  • Move aside CNN… and ESPN

    While perusing deadspin.com the other day I came across the announcement that the Onion News Network (when did The Onion move into videos, I know they always had the AV Club, but a full out online channel?)… where was I… oh yes, the Onion News Network had launched a sports network appropriately titled Onion Sports…

  • If I Ran The World: Gay Marriage Edition

    The furor over California\’s passage of Proposition 8, an amendment to the state\’s constitution banning same-sex marriage, continues to boil. Newsweek had a recent cover story discussing whether or not the Bible supports or condemns gay marriage. I found the article poorly researched and not well written, something I would expect on a blog (insert…

  • They\’re Animals

    I think Joe Biden has said it best… some Republicans have devolved into fear and loathing. Check out this article; and then my comments after the jump.

  • Zero Sympathy

    I read that McCain has suggested an additional $300-$350 billion in homeowner bailout for those who are defaulting on their mortgages on top of the $700 billion for the business. Now that doesn’t have much chance of passing in Congress, but what a surprise to see a Republican candidate volleying up what is essentially a…

  • News of the Day

    Hey check this out. It seems that lava flows indicate that the Earth\’s magnetic fields occasionally reverse, which would have compasses worldwide pointing South. This is a geological \’occasional\’, though, which means the last time it happened was about 800,000 years ago (unless you\’re Sarah Palin, in which case the last time it happened was…

  • RIP, DFW

    Yeah, so that quote on voting that I never got around to attributing . . . it comes from this article, penned by one of my favorite authors. An author so famously verbose that I suspect many of his magazine articles could have been, left uncut, made into books. David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008. Rest in…

  • x + 3 = unemployed?

    I was doing some surfing of the old \’net today and came across this Opinion piece from The Christian Science Monitor. College is not a must

  • why i hate politics, part MCMCVLXIIII

    so. i know two things. first, capitalism is a good thing. and, second, things are usually more complicated than they appear. but, on the cusp of $4 per gallon of gas… Republicans block Democrats\’ attempt to impose windfall profits tax on oil companies oh, and: Separately, Democrats also failed to get Republican support for a…

  • Man Throws Ball, Feels Regret; et al

    It\’s long overdue to have a discussion regarding this.