{"id":12799,"date":"2008-09-25T05:32:05","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T12:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/09\/25\/potpourri-on-a-purplish-thursday.html"},"modified":"2008-09-25T05:32:05","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T12:32:05","slug":"potpourri_on_a_purplish_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/25\/potpourri_on_a_purplish_t.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri on a Purplish Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!<\/p>\n

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  1. Like sands through the hourglass…<\/a> – A detailed timeline of the debacle, going back to the 20s.<\/li>\n
  2. Such simplicity, such elegance…such nonsense.<\/a> – Solonor notes how we’ve been through this before, usually whenever we let the foxes guard the hen house.<\/li>\n
  3. YouTube – Rachel Maddow Show: Kids in the Candy Store<\/a> – Best metaphor ever. Kids, candy, and babysitters …<\/li>\n
  4. Paulson: I Didn\u2019t Suggest Oversight In The Bailout…<\/a> – “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 …”<\/li>\n
  5. Republican Study Committee “Alternative Plan”: This…<\/a> – 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.<\/li>\n
  6. More humor as medicine on the Wall Street disaster.<\/a> – I can has bailout?<\/li>\n
  7. Trickle Down – 2008-09-23: Sinfest<\/a> – Yeah, some serious trickle-down going on.<\/li>\n
  8. Economic Crisis the Result of \u201cBreakdown in the Family\u201d<\/a> – It’s all the gays getting married. Got it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    IRKSOME, SERIOUS THINGS<\/p>\n

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    1. Gitmo prosecutor quits :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Nation<\/a> – Acting on his conscience and on behalf of the justice system. That’s actually good<\/em> thing.<\/li>\n
    2. Man farts at officer, charged with battery<\/a> – People behaving badly … but one of them is an officer of the court.<\/li>\n
    3. Louisiana Rep. LaBruzzo wants to pay poor people to be sterilized …<\/a> – “… and decrease the surplus population.” I look forward to the stinging rebuke from the Catholic Church and various right-to-life organizations.<\/li>\n
    4. There is such a thing as bad satire<\/a> – 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<\/em> gets into at times, and Roger Ebert got into it this time.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      PLEASANT, PERIPHERAL THINGS<\/p>\n

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      1. Johnny Depp Cast in Burton\u2019s Alice, The Lone Ranger…<\/a> – 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.<\/li>\n
      2. Dungeons & Dragons & Rotten Musicians<\/a> – Not my cuppa, but if you like D&D hip-hop, here you go.<\/li>\n
      3. Solonor’s Ink Well: The Next Doctor<\/a> – Intesting, and a bit retro.<\/li>\n
      4. Astronomers Find “Dark Flow” Sucking Matter Out of the Universe …<\/a> – The coolness factor outweighs the universal catastrophe factor, at least for a few billion years.<\/li>\n
      5. DoJ to Congress: We’ve got better things to do than…<\/a> – “… serve as pro bono <\/em>legal agents for the recording industry.” Wow, the DoJ grows a pair. Now, will Congress, which has fast-tracked this idiotic legislation, lay off?<\/li>\n
      6. Japan’s badass new prime minister<\/a> – Okay, now I want to see similar videos for Obama and McCain. <\/li>\n
      7. Many Eyes<\/a> – Very cool data visualization site.<\/li>\n
      8. Friends Everywhere, and other Friendly Features<\/a> – I’m not likely to use Tags, but being able to alphabetize my feeds in Google Reader will be nice.<\/li>\n
      9. Show of Talent | Creativity Online<\/a> – These book covers are lovely — but like so many lovely book covers, they don’t actually encourage me to buy the book.<\/li>\n
      10. Professor Wikipedia<\/a> – A nice analysis of the perils and pitfalls thereof.<\/li>\n
      11. Firefox 3.1 to offer private browsing | News | TechRadar…<\/a> – Making the world safe for … um … folks who don’t want their sessions recorded. That’s the ticket!<\/li>\n
      12. A Writer’s Rant – :: LEAST I COULD DO FORUM ::<\/a> – Watching Harlan Ellison rant on a subject almost always brings a smile. In this case, it’s about writers working for free.<\/li>\n
      13. 25 Beautiful Macro Photography Shots<\/a> – Very pretty.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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