IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!
- Like sands through the hourglass… – A detailed timeline of the debacle, going back to the 20s.
- Such simplicity, such elegance…such nonsense. – Solonor notes how we’ve been through this before, usually whenever we let the foxes guard the hen house.
- YouTube – Rachel Maddow Show: Kids in the Candy Store – Best metaphor ever. Kids, candy, and babysitters …
- Paulson: I Didn’t Suggest Oversight In The Bailout… – “I really wanted oversight, really-truly. I mean, it just would have been presumptuous for me to suggest any. Ignore all that part where it explicitly says no oversight. That’s just some boilerplate from some national security legislation …”
- Republican Study Committee “Alternative Plan”: This… – Just as with 9/11, we see folks leaping forward to press legislation that they’ve wanted for decades but never had an “emergency” excuse to get is through.
- More humor as medicine on the Wall Street disaster. – I can has bailout?
- Trickle Down – 2008-09-23: Sinfest – Yeah, some serious trickle-down going on.
- Economic Crisis the Result of “Breakdown in the Family” – It’s all the gays getting married. Got it.
IRKSOME, SERIOUS THINGS
- Gitmo prosecutor quits :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Nation – Acting on his conscience and on behalf of the justice system. That’s actually good thing.
- Man farts at officer, charged with battery – People behaving badly … but one of them is an officer of the court.
- Louisiana Rep. LaBruzzo wants to pay poor people to be sterilized … – “… and decrease the surplus population.” I look forward to the stinging rebuke from the Catholic Church and various right-to-life organizations.
- There is such a thing as bad satire – As in “satire that is not recognizable as such because there are lunatics out there saying that very thing.” It’s a trap The Onion gets into at times, and Roger Ebert got into it this time.
PLEASANT, PERIPHERAL THINGS
- Johnny Depp Cast in Burton’s Alice, The Lone Ranger… – Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter? Brilliant. Johnny Depp as Cap’n Jack again? Rather not. Johnny Depp as the Lone Ranger? Only if he’s playing it straight.
- Dungeons & Dragons & Rotten Musicians – Not my cuppa, but if you like D&D hip-hop, here you go.
- Solonor’s Ink Well: The Next Doctor – Intesting, and a bit retro.
- Astronomers Find “Dark Flow” Sucking Matter Out of the Universe … – The coolness factor outweighs the universal catastrophe factor, at least for a few billion years.
- DoJ to Congress: We’ve got better things to do than… – “… serve as pro bono legal agents for the recording industry.” Wow, the DoJ grows a pair. Now, will Congress, which has fast-tracked this idiotic legislation, lay off?
- Japan’s badass new prime minister – Okay, now I want to see similar videos for Obama and McCain.
- Many Eyes – Very cool data visualization site.
- Friends Everywhere, and other Friendly Features – I’m not likely to use Tags, but being able to alphabetize my feeds in Google Reader will be nice.
- Show of Talent | Creativity Online – These book covers are lovely — but like so many lovely book covers, they don’t actually encourage me to buy the book.
- Professor Wikipedia – A nice analysis of the perils and pitfalls thereof.
- Firefox 3.1 to offer private browsing | News | TechRadar… – Making the world safe for … um … folks who don’t want their sessions recorded. That’s the ticket!
- A Writer’s Rant – :: LEAST I COULD DO FORUM :: – Watching Harlan Ellison rant on a subject almost always brings a smile. In this case, it’s about writers working for free.
- 25 Beautiful Macro Photography Shots – Very pretty.
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