Monthly Archives: September 2010
Doesn’t this mean that CNN should reward James O’Keefe with an anchor role?
That’s the usual MO, right? Dinesh D’Souza, Erick Erickson, Jonah Goldberg .. .A conservative activist known for making undercover videos plotted to embarrass a CNN correspondent by recording a meeting on hidden cameras aboard a floating “palace of pleasure” and … Continue reading
Filed under Asshole, What liberal media
Ken Silverstein’s goodbye note
Stay well, Ken: When you can read an entire column by the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz and never once feel the urge to cut out your own heart with a dull knife, you know that you no longer have the sense … Continue reading
Filed under Media, Villagers, What liberal media
Steve King (Cornpacker-IA) “thinks” Colbert is faking it
Filed under Buffoons, Conservative politics
Colbert rocks the house and haunts Steve King: I want my tomato picked by an American, sliced by a Gautamalan .. served in spa where a Chilean gives me a brazilian
Steve King (Loon-IA) looks happy: Thank you, Mr. Colbert.
Filed under Uncategorized
The pledge has changed its colors. For realz
Postcards from the pledge This time the GOP pledge is for real. For realz., posted with vodpod
Filed under Jon Stewart, the daily show with jon stewart
Irish austerity rocks
Rocks the GDP, that is: Ireland posted a surprise second-quarter gross domestic product decline of 1.2%, having officially exited its recession in the first quarter of the year The only solution to combat this, of course, is more austere measures. … Continue reading
Filed under Ireland
This explains why Charles Calomiris keeps getting invited as expert economy
He has Megan McArdle like credentials! Always wrong. Calormiris in 2007: The Subprime troubles caused a liquidity shock, but there is little reason to believe that a substantial decline in credit supply under the current circumstances will magnify the shocks … Continue reading
Filed under Batshit crazy, Conservative politics, Economists
Charles Calomiris, teanut economist
Charles Calomiris in Bloomberg Businessweek cover story interview: The President is about to lose control of Congress, if he ever had it, and I think the real interesting to-do list is for the Republicans controlling Congress. Of greatest importance for … Continue reading
Filed under Conservative politics, Economists
Today’s duh! news: Hedge fund managers defend HFC, Goldman decries tax increases for wealthy Goldman employees
ZOMG! Let’s not upset these guys and give them what they want. Otherwise, they may flee to … Dubai! First up: The hedge fund industry’s main lobbying group is urging federal regulators not to crack down on high-frequency trading, saying … Continue reading
Sorry, democracy/civil rights/eco activists, you are standing between Microsoft & market share.
I am so old that I remember it was a big deal when some blogger paid for a stolen phone and had his computer confiscated. I seem to recall wall to wall media coverage & a daily show rebuke. This … Continue reading
Filed under Corrupt, Corrupt pigs, Corruption, Crap, Microsoft
