Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Mini House
A 15sq meter house that can be built in a weekend. All for less than the price of a car (you supply the scenic lakeside property). Yet another cool thing that Americans are apparently incapable of designing. We never did catch on to the whole minimalism thing.
(dezeen)
Hide the veep (sfgate)
McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb said Palin will do at least one news conference before election day. That could mean that the person who could potentially lead the free world will have done one national press conference before being sworn into office.
McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb said Palin will do at least one news conference before election day. That could mean that the person who could potentially lead the free world will have done one national press conference before being sworn into office.
The Democratic vice presidential nominee, Joe Biden, has given more than 89 national and local interviews over roughly the same period of time.
Monday, September 29, 2008
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) has released its Economic Outlook. The title sums it up nicely.
I'm hearing more and more frequently that Sarah Palin's colossal ineptitude and interview bungling is prompting the McCain insiders to consider replacing her on the GOP ticket. At first it was almost joking; these days the calls seem to be more serious. While replacing Palin with a more mature, informed veep candidate (who, though? Rudy's got an uneasy association with Wall Street that's not going to help) would be no doubt good for the Republicans, I'm pretty sure they won't because the signs and buttons have already been printed. Plus, they're not exactly known for their honesty in confronting horrible the choices they've made.
Salon article on same.
Salon article on same.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principles of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale”
--Thomas Jefferson
--Thomas Jefferson
[Deine Arbeitpass, Bitte!]
In direct violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, George Bush will be permanently activating an Army Unit inside the U.S. (yt) to assist with civil unrest and crowd control.
Check out the Army Times article on same for a decidedly different slant on this horrifying new bit of domestic fascism.
In direct violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, George Bush will be permanently activating an Army Unit inside the U.S. (yt) to assist with civil unrest and crowd control.
Check out the Army Times article on same for a decidedly different slant on this horrifying new bit of domestic fascism.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
If you're sick of Congress treating corrupt banks to favors they would NEVER bestow upon working taxpayers, sign MoveOn's petition to let them know.
Buy My Shitpile, Henry
Use the form below to submit bad assets you'd like the government to take off your hands. And remember, when estimating the value of your 1997 limited edition Hanson single CD "MMMbop", it's not what you can sell these items for that matters, it's what you think they are worth. The fact that you think they are worth more than anyone will buy them for is what makes them bad assets.
Use the form below to submit bad assets you'd like the government to take off your hands. And remember, when estimating the value of your 1997 limited edition Hanson single CD "MMMbop", it's not what you can sell these items for that matters, it's what you think they are worth. The fact that you think they are worth more than anyone will buy them for is what makes them bad assets.
Monday, September 22, 2008
How We Became the United States of France (Time)
Put it all together, and the America that emerges is a cartoonish version of the country most despised by red-meat red-state patriots: France. Only with worse food.
Put it all together, and the America that emerges is a cartoonish version of the country most despised by red-meat red-state patriots: France. Only with worse food.
Friday, September 19, 2008
McSweeney's is running a long, reader-contributed tribute to the recently departed David Foster Wallace
See also The New Yorker (see Related Links sidebar for New Yorker stories) , and Village Voice
See also The New Yorker (see Related Links sidebar for New Yorker stories) , and Village Voice
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Here's some video of Sarah Palin cavorting with sick, disturbed End-Times lunatics. Patriots get all up-in-arms about Obama's association with a pastor who dares to speak his mind on the pathology of the U.S. social system, but these deranged mouthbreathers don't bat an eye about people who have retreated so far into mental disease and sociopathic fantasy that they pray for the world to end by way of the destructive power of Jesus-magic.
Ideological incompatibility - and frankly, the danger of close proximity - has reached the point where we can't share the same government with these dolts. I just don't want to be physically near somebody who wakes up and wants the world to end, and who might even do something to speed the process along in a psychotic wish-fulfillment episode. I think breaking up would be best for both of us.
Ideological incompatibility - and frankly, the danger of close proximity - has reached the point where we can't share the same government with these dolts. I just don't want to be physically near somebody who wakes up and wants the world to end, and who might even do something to speed the process along in a psychotic wish-fulfillment episode. I think breaking up would be best for both of us.