September 2008
WatchDynaman: Spunky the Wonder Squid: For fans of Night Flight, you may remember this amazing redub of some cheesy Japanese scifi show made bearable and funny. I often say “By the veins on Spunky’s head”, and nobody ever understands.
“TOP 10 Reasons Palin may cancel her debate with Biden:
10. Suspicious Russian...”
– News: Palin’s climate remarks conflict with past views (via whiskeycoat)
“How Did Dinosaurs Fit on the Ark?
Many people think of dinosaurs as large...”
– What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs? - Answers in Genesis
WatchDominoes made out of dominoes
“At a recent party in Paris, I fucked a Spanish girl in an inflatable igloo.”
– Savage Love, Sept. 17, 2008
“A summary of the tentative agreement released by Speaker Pelosi’s office...”
– Bailout Plan Gains Key Support
What Would Happen if You Bought 25 Bottles of... →
frothyparadise:
Answer: a lot of weird shit. (via psychoviolinist)
“NO!” she bellowed again.
“But why not?” I repeated.
“BECAUSE OF THE METH!” she hollered.
I smiled a little and said, “I promise I won’t use it to make meth.”
Again: “NO!”
“The Bush administration has overturned a 22-year-old policy and now allows...”
– Feds give customs agents free hand to seize travelers’ documents
Tina Fey as Sarah Palin again (with Amy Poehler as... →
“Sami al-Haj speaks slowly and with care, each detail of his suffering and of...”
– Six years in Guantanamo - Robert Fisk
tumblrist BETA BETA BETA →
topherchris:
Would anyone like to try logging into this? I’d love to have some real data to help me get things squared away. Thanks in advance.
Please note that I’ll likely lock it down again after I get what I need, and plan to open it back up tomorrow after some more prep.
UPDATE: Wow, guys! I got plenty of data in just a few minutes. Thanks so very much. I’ve shut it down to tweak a...
“#McCainShot #ObamaShot Drink when Obama says “Rezko” or McCain says...”
– Twitter / bittergeek
“Sweden did not just bail out its financial institutions by having the government...”
– How Sweden Solved Its Bank Crisis
WatchSarah Silverman: The Great Schlep. Sarah asks all Jews to visit their grandparents in Florida and convince them to vote for Obama. “He’s circumSUPERcised!”
What Actually Happened Yesterday: Joe Klein
frothyparadise:
The New York Times has an excellent account of the impact of John McCain’s bailout freakout on the actual work of negotiating a compromise. There are several stunning revelations here. First, House Minority Leader John Boehner’s top aide pretty much conceded that among the motivations for the House Republicans’ refusal to go along with the plan was to save face for McCain: The...
My letter to the Obama campaign
Dear Obama campaign, I read a report on a new crop of ads your campaign is running which troubled me. Apparently fact-checking groups are beginning to be able to find the same fault in some of your ads as in those of John McCain. I thought this was going to be a different kind of campaign. Is this how you want to win, by throwing in the towel at the end and giving in to misleading statements?...
“Capitol Hill sources are telling me that senior McCain people are more than...”
– The Ed Schultz Show
“Bush is no diplomat, but he’s Cardinal freaking Richelieu compared to...”
– Democratic staffer on John McCain’s bailout mistakes (Huffington Post)
“White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller than...”
– This is Your Nation on White Privilege (Tim Wise)
WatchHead of Skate: An Alaskan hockey mom becomes Vice President in the wackiest family comedy of the year! Sound familiar?
“It’s not based on any particular data point. We just wanted to choose a really...”
– unnamed Treasury spokesperson to Forbes magazine, explaining how they came up with the $700 billion figure. Just keeps getting better, doesn’t it? (via spiegelman)
“Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are...”
– Dirty Secret Of The Bailout: Thirty-Two Words That None Dare Utter
Nope. No no no.
Email spam from Henry Paulson →
(via spiegelman)
Biden is right. →
(via spiegelman)
He’s right, but he needs to calm down and think about shit before saying it.
“The unprecedented intervention of the Fed may be justified or not in narrow...”
– Where now for capitalism?: Noam Chomsky
