So in addition to the $700 billion bailout for banks, tens of billions each for Citi, Bank of America, and AIG, and trillions of money from the Federal Reserve to god know who, now the US government is talking about giving/loaning $500 billion to the FDIC to shore up its deposit insurance fund.
So let me [...]
Bank Insurance!??! (aka FoC Populism run amok!)
Twitter and Culture
A funny Doonesbury today. As a Twitter user, I know that it is completely pointless…but it is a fun way to make little jokes and let people know what you are doing. And reading up on Shaq is always fun.
It seems like there is a Twitter backlash going on (Thanks John Dickerson of Slate for [...]
Flinty Chicago Toughness
After a dusting of snow canceled schools around DC, Obama mentioned that DCers need to show some flinty, Chicago toughness. Well now it looks like a real snowstorm is headed for DC!
This is his first real test. He can’t blink. He has to show the weather prognosticators and terrorists that he won’t back down; [...]
Best Show on Television
Admittedly, I generally don’t watch shows on TV, since I prefer to binge on entire seasons all at once on DVD or BitTorrent, but I was thinking which I liked better: Lost or Battlestar Galactica. And the winner for me would have to be BSG.
Lost is a very good show, but so far I’ve been [...]
Daschle Replacement
So now that Daschle is out…which is probably a good thing from a political/good gov’t/credibility-saver perspective for Obama; but bad for actually getting health care reform accomplished. I had high hopes that Daschle and Obama could get decent legislation moving, but now that hope is gone.
So who can Obama appoint? First, he might [...]
Super Super Bowl Post (Second Half)
Thoughts on the second half:
6:18PM: Springsteen is good. But some of the football stage banter is odd…
6:21PM: Is Carlos Boozer the best overstock.com could do for it’s Super Bowl ad?
6:22PM: People literally laughing their asses off. LMAO! OK, not really. A painfully unfunny commercial is not the best strategy for advertising your comedy series, NBC.
6:25PM: [...]
Super Super Bowl Post (First Half)
I’ll be updating throughout the game with random thoughts on the game and commercials.
4:47PM: The first commercial involving a man getting hit in crotch. Thanks Doritos. First of many?
4:49PM: Maybe Troy Palamolo needs to gets some Kareem Abdul Jabar googles, if his contacts are giving him problems.
4:51PM: Funny Conan O’Brien Bud Light commercial. Funnier after [...]
Bush = Truman: Last Push for Conservo Talking Points!
Now that Bush is fading off into the sunset, his few remaining supporters and some conservatives that want to whitewash the Bush years by saying “history will judge” are putting on their final full-court press that Bush=Truman.
Of course, it may be a comforting notion, despite being rejected by your contemporaries, that history will judge you [...]
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