February 2009
58 posts
January 2009
80 posts
5 Tips For Surviving The Worldwide Economic... →
elpasajero:
florajasmine:
go read what...
frangry:
Here ya go, Kenny Rogers - The...
“Yet there will always be some who believe his election had to have been...”
– Anne Applebaum
Mohammed Jawad is another prisoner at Gitmo, and like Khadr he was also a child soldier (between 15 and 17; his birth date is unknown) when he threw a grenade and injured U.S. soldiers. As Glenn Greenwald chronicles here, Jawad allegedly suffered such brutal abuse and torture, his chief prosecutor resigned and is now a witness for Jawad in his habeas corpus proceeding. As Greenwald writes, the...
Dollar schizophrenia - New Boss Same as Old Boss →
we’ll call this ding one in the Obama armour.
RECOVERED SCENES FROM THE TRAGEDY PLAXICO BY...
RECOVERED SCENES
FROM THE TRAGEDY
PLAXICO BY WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE.
BY SHANE RYAN
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Dramatis Personae.
First Tailgater, season-ticket holder
Second Tailgater, season-ticket holder
Chris Snee, Giants guard and son-in-law to Coach Coughlin
Eli Manning, quarterback
Antonio Pierce, linebacker
Plaxico Burress, receiver
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Act I, scene i.
New Jersey, early Sunday. A...
Dept. of FYI
Everyone admires a civil servant who will take a bullet in the line of duty, but one section of the population may feel the attraction more strongly than others, because the traits that make a good Secret Service agent are especially valuable in a lesbian.
Detroit
The city council has been such a joke that one former member demanded 17 pounds of sausages as part of her $150,000 bribe. Its prognosis for respectability hasn’t grown stronger with Monica Conyers, wife of congressman John Conyers, taking the helm. She has managed to get in a barroom brawl, threatened to shoot a mayoral staffer as well as have him beaten up, and twice called a burly and...
Watchwhatson:
thedailywhat:
Early Bird Special: Kid gets a Wii, proceeds to experience a succession of emotions not normally associated with receiving a game console as a present.
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the dangers of gifting menopausal children.
Avista Capital Partners is the Devil →
This article is hilarious.
alexbalk:
The three-word plot pivot toward the end...
“I have a lot of issues. Money, women, fast cars, more money, more women, the...”
– Tracy Morgan
Complaint #347
whitewhine:
“The smell in Yankee Candle is too strong.”
-Whine by Grant
“Citigroup, at $3.50 a share, simply doesn’t have the time to implement its...”
– Felix Salmon
alexbalk:
American Music Club, “The Hula Maiden”
Watchwhatson:
thedailywhat:
3PM Slap: Guy eats a Ghost Pepper — the hottest chili in the world — only to find out, after the fact, that it probably wasn’t the smartest idea to ingest something most often used by Indians in smoke bombs to deter wild elephants.
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I love that he has a kid.
What was the Great Moderation?
The link, methinks economists, much like phrenologists and alchemists before them should tale a couple steps back and take along hard look at a few of their core assumptions. It’s like all the banality and annoyance of normal academia combined with having an actual impact on the world. Frightening.
The raised standing of central bankers rests on a phenomenon that economists have termed...
