January 11, 2008 – 9:12 am
One day after a rare winter tornado cut a 5-mile swath through the center of town, resident David G. Van Auken had this published in the Letters section of the Columbian:
…We constantly hear how compassionate politicians are. Therein lies the problem. To make correct decisions that affect the largest number of people, emotions [...]
January 9, 2008 – 11:16 am
Per Rachel Maddow’s advice, I read this article in the LA Times yesterday, about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s promise to fuck up any candidate who even thinks of restraining corporate greed:
Alarmed at the increasingly populist tone of the 2008 political campaign, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is set to issue a [...]
December 26, 2007 – 12:13 pm
Today is Boxing Day, which in the U.K. used to be the day when the servants (who of course had to serve Christmas day) got a rare day off to spend with their families, eating the boxed-up leftovers of their master’s feast. Lucky duckies!
Thankfully, no such outmoded classism gets in the way of the [...]
December 26, 2007 – 9:00 am
J. has a hard time buying gifts for me. Even when I say I don’t need anything, or ask for something that can’t be bought (this year I asked that we adopt the stray cat that’s been camped out on our front porch for a month), he thinks he needs to get me something. [...]
December 18, 2007 – 11:25 am
The prez-gnat yesterday:
…And so we cut taxes. And I mean we cut them on everybody.
…
And the plan worked. If you think about where we were coming out of 2001 and where we are today, you can’t help but say the plan worked; cutting taxes helped stimulate economic growth. …And so we’ve had a pretty good [...]
December 17, 2007 – 10:37 am
when his time comes, Alan Greenspan would fall directly from his lofty platonic perch down to the deepest circle of hell, where he would live in a flooded New Orleans shotgun with Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman, each given only a tablespoon to bail with while fetid water continued to seep through the walls, rank [...]
December 6, 2007 – 1:02 pm
- and no money in the budget to fix it.
We moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1991, missing by one year the first of three “100-year” flood events that have hit since 1990.
Like Minneapolis and everywhere else in the country, infrastructure is failing all around us, and no one is willing to pony [...]
December 4, 2007 – 10:13 am
But there should be a different George in the cockpit.
From Reuters this morning:
More than 2 million subprime borrowers took out mortgages with low teaser interest rates that are due to reset sharply higher, and officials fear as many as 500,000 could lose their homes because they will be unable to meet the higher payments.
…
Rising defaults [...]
November 27, 2007 – 9:27 am
Dow +150 NASDAQ +38; the market seems to like Citigroups $7.5 billion capital infusion from Abu Dhabi. China has set up its $250 billion fund and you have to wonder if they are considering similar moves. In any case it is good to see some equity recovery.
The interest on the Citibank [...]
November 19, 2007 – 4:33 pm
From Scout we learn that:
A national commission today rejected New Orleans’ bid to host a 2008 presidential debate, deciding that the city was not sufficiently recovered from Hurricane Katrina to handle such an important event.
You complete morons.
You don’t hold a Presidential Debate in New Orleans because it’s a world-class city - though it is.
You hold [...]
November 19, 2007 – 3:32 pm
I watch less than an hour of t.v. a week, and even that is just my Recommended Daily Allowance of the Daily Show via the internets. But the networks’ stance on the writers’ contract still pisses me off beyond even the pain of losing real-time Jon Stewart.
United Hollywood has a campaign going to send [...]
November 19, 2007 – 10:03 am
Oxfam has this press release about the recent tragedy unfolding in Bangladesh. You can donate here to Oxfam’s Bangladesh cyclone fund to help the situation.
The American Institute of Philanthropy has a list of the best relief organizations to help with the disaster. Please give what you can and be thankful. Thank you.
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