September 2008
“Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt of The Hills pretended to be people who shouldn’t...”
– The Superficial (via beekeeperssociety)
lame, McCain. Boooooooo →
Apparently, the debates will be tougher than the Vietcong. Baaad-ump chaa.
What a sissy.
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Waffle House Wedding →
peterwknox:notthatkindagay:
YOU MUST WATCH THIS VIDEO.
Being from the region where this type of stuff happens sometimes, its not that dire that you view this. But I still recommend it.
WANT →
My Morning Jacket’s Jim James to Play Obama Benefit
That night, at Schubas Tavern in Chicago, James will play an all-acoustic set for anyone willing to pay $100 per ticket. Preceding James’ performance will be a reception with Obama campaign chief of staff Jim Messina.
via E at Hello Friend
Matt Taibbi's The Lies of Sarah Palin →
Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she’s a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove. But more than that, she is a horrifying symbol of how little we ask for in return for the total surrender of our political power. Not only is Sarah Palin a fraud, she’s...
legospaceship:
Teenagers Remix of Vampire Weekends...
'With a gun and a pack of sandwiches' →
Listening to Radiohead on NPR’s Live Concerts from All Songs Considered Podcast podcast, and just completely rocking my cube right now. Even better, around the 30 minute mark, my favorite radiohead song comes on: Talk Show Host (from Romeo + Juliet (you know, the one with Leo DiCaprio and Claire Danes)). Sick. Lyrics:
I want to I want to be someone else or I’ll explode Floating...
maybe I'd vote Republican if a gay spider tried to... →
Political scientists took two groups of volunteers and gave them the Bush administration’s prewar claims that Iraq was a threat and had weapons of mass destruction.
One group was given a refutation — the comprehensive 2004 Duelfer report that concluded that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction before the United States invaded in 2003. Thirty-four percent of conservatives told only...
Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting of Obama and...
OBAMA What would you do?
BARTLET GET ANGRIER! Call them liars, because that’s what they are. Sarah Palin didn’t say “thanks but no thanks” to the Bridge to Nowhere. She just said “Thanks.” You were raised by a single mother on food stamps — where does a guy with eight houses who was legacied into Annapolis get off calling you an elitist? And by the way, if you do nothing else, take that word...
Microsoft's "I'm a PC" →
beekeeperssociety:
Muuuuch better than that Seinfeld nonsense. But these are um, what, a year or so late?
rickyv:
Microsoft’s launches “we’re not going to be bullied anymore” campaign. Well done.
+1000000000000000
I ran into Jesse Jackson on the street today.
That’s it. Oh, and I wish my camera-phone could take a decent photo.
McCain's economic plan: Rabble, rabble! →
Even if naked short selling were a problem, it is not in any way related to the present financial crisis: ” Repeat after me: The trouble is not with short-sellers. The trouble is not with short-sellers. The trouble is with an over-levered financial system built on a house of cards comprised of under-collateralized toxic paper that was applauded all the way up by “housing is the American dream”...
Black Comic Introduces McCain at RNC →
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WHY YOU SHOULD HATE TENNESSEE: COUNTRY MUSIC →
hellofriend:
If you read one thing the whole day, make this it:
We would kill someone for a good song about spooky rural murder. In fact, we offer to commit one, just to have a talented songwriter witness it, and then compose a badass song about it. Toby Keith will be on one side, and we’ll be on the other with an RPG. You and your Ford Truck and your shitty goatee, which you wear as the totem...
The Glorious U.S. Nation Declares Collectivist... →
Read, comrades!
“Palin made an unsuccessful bid for lieutenant governor in 2002, spewed further...”
– Sarah Palin - Dickipedia (via getupgetout) (via sarahchristine) (via ubercalifragilisticxpialidocious) (via peterwknox)
Rated By Idiots →
Going back three years, at a minimum, any reader of my idol James Grant would have been struck by the undisguised scorn he heaped on the two agencies’ ratings of various structured debt instruments—ratings that were based on “models” that premised that in a ziggurat of crap, the highest layer deserved an AAA rating because it would be the last to stink up the joint....
'A run on AIG, make no mistake, is dangerous to... →
An AIG failure could have serious repercussions across the globe as its network of derivative contracts are held by banks, investment banks, hedge funds, insurance companies and mutual funds as well as multinational corporations. We’re talking about big money. According to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the notional value of CDS totaled $62.2 trillion at the end of...
Toast →
33 cents on the dollar? The message is loud and clear: AIG is toast. This is the massive counterparty failure everybody’s been scared of, and frankly I’m astonished that the broader stock market isn’t plunging as a result. No one is prepared for the repercussions here: the failure of AIG is likely to be an order of magnitude more harmful than the failure of LTCM would have been....
How Bad Is It? How Bad Will It Be? →
While the Times and the pay-for-content Journal are covering this month’s incredible financial melt down like a wet blanket on a candle, I have yet to see any great analysis, any predictions at all. I know it’s early, but I need some context, some visions of what’s to come in the next two months
Has anyone seen anything like that? Any thoughts? The Times is reporting AIG may yet...
Faster, Fairer, Stronger →
I call the first fact the Great Partisan Growth Divide. Simply put, the United States economy has grown faster, on average, under Democratic presidents than under Republicans.
The second … might be called the Great Partisan Inequality Divide … Over the entire 60-year period, income inequality trended substantially upward under Republican presidents but slightly downward under...
2008 Presidential & Vice-Presidential debate info →
peterwknox:
fishy:
First presidential debate: Friday, September 26 University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
Vice presidential debate: Thursday, October 2 Washington University in St. Louis, MO
Second presidential debate: Tuesday, October 7 Belmont University, Nashville, TN
Third presidential debate: Wednesday, October 15 Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
For future reference.
Who are these...
“Mention a name or theme — Brett Favre, the Patriots under Belichick, Lance...”
– James Fallows (via hellofriend)
Lipstick on a Wing Nut
The Nation nails it.
squill37:
John McCain chose the supremely under-qualified Sarah Palin as his running mate partly because she is a woman. If you have a problem with that, you’re a sexist. She talks incessantly about being a mother of five and uses her newborn, Trig, who has Down syndrome, as a campaign prop. If you wonder how she’ll handle all those kids and the Veep job too,...
“Plane crashes in to the word trade center. Apologies for not linking to anything...”
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MetaFilter
Read the comments thread to see it happening. Crazy. Seven fucking years.
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This is a sad, stomach-bending read.
It'll cost mucho dinero for Chad Ocho Cinco to... →
Interesting point about his jerseys, though i disagree with the author about Chad being some bad character. He’s never cheated (Rodney Harrison), taken drugs (Chris Henry), fought a teammate or anyone for that matter (Steve Smith), quit mid season (T.O.), hit a police officer on purpose and drove away (Moss) etc.
Watchpeterwknox:
kray:
i couldn’t agree more with matt damon
Jason Bourn VS Sarah Palin
THIS is fantastic. Loving Damon’s sensible ferocity.
I need to know if she thinks dinosaurs were around 4,000 years ago. I need to know, because she’ll have the nuclear codes.
AMAZING.
The New 'Quantum Of Solace' Trailer is online. →
peterwknox:yeahmon:danhacker:
‘DARK KNIGHT’ EXCLUSIVE: Michael Caine Says Johnny... →
In an interview with MTV News conducted just hours ago at the Toronto Film Festival, Michael Caine — there to promote “Is There Anybody There?” — seemed to confirm rumors that the next installment of the “Batman” film franchise will feature two very well-known names playing the roles of The Riddler and the Bumbershoot Bandit, The Penguin. “They’ve already got them in mind,” said Caine, when asked...
“Jim Oberdeen, a used record store clerk in Gaberberg Ohio, died Tuesday after...”
– UNREMITTING FAILURE: Man Pretentioused to Death by Sonic Youth (via nevver)
SPARKS CRISIS →
SOMEBODY CREATE A FUCKING PETITION OR SOMETHING JESUS FUCK SHIT
theitis:
Buy buy buy! Nowwwwww!
(via A Town)
Charles Gibson, Please Ask About This
hellofriend:
vondelpark:
That old bastion of the liberal media, the Wall Street Journal, keeps wondering why the McCain campaign insists on flogging the Palin-killed-the-Bridge-to-Nowhere canard:
Despite significant evidence to the contrary, the McCain campaign continues to assert that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told the federal government “thanks but no thanks” to the now-famous bridge to an...
“During sophomore year, instead of pledging fraternities and sororities, many New...”
– — From Bloomingdale’s To Bloomington
The Wall Street Journal comments on Indiana University’s influx of New Yorkers. This is a great way to start my Friday. Smallwood and Sports 4 life!!11!!
(via beekeeperssociety)
As a former McNutt Cafe employee, I HATED those messy half-meal eating, loud,...
