My President is Amy Poehler
Add comment October 23rd, 2008
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Saturday Dogs in Halloween Costumes Blogging
Add comment October 18th, 2008
The crisis
Steven Landsburg has some interesting points on the current economic crisis over at The Atlantic:
So what’s special about banks? According to what I keep reading, it’s that without banks, nobody can borrow, and the economy grinds to a halt.
Well, let’s think about that. Banks don’t lend their own money; they lend other people’s (their depositors’ and their stockholders’). Just because the banks disappear doesn’t mean the lenders will. Borrowers will still want to borrow and lenders will still want to lend. The only question is whether they’ll be able to find each other.
(source)
Add comment September 24th, 2008
Charged by the police
…could have some different meanings than it used to. Or to put it another way, things that society provides, like police work, educations, libraries, are all potentially privatizable.
Add comment September 23rd, 2008
Wise men of Wall Street
Hypothetical Text message question here…A query to my readers asa to how to respond to the following hypthetical query:
Bern@k3y: Yo J-Money
J-Money: Wassup
Bern@k3y: I need to hit you up for $2600
J-Money: S@y what?
Bern@k3y: Not just you d00d. I’m asking everyb0dy in @meric@
J-Money: For what?
Bern@k3y: I need it this week br0
J-Money: WHat are you going to use it for?
Bern@k3y: Don’t be hatin
Bern@k3y: Could be a r3c3ssion if you don’t front me m@n
Bern@k3y: $$$ quick plz!!!
J-Money: How did this happen, m@n?
Bern@k3y: Housing, loans….man enuff with the q’s, get me some $$$
Add comment September 23rd, 2008
Things Learned during my summer vacation
The State of New York takes entirely too long to cross lengthwise, and should probably be shortened to save time.
The Airline Highway is a bit of a nightmare in heavy rains.
Inflation has increased two weeks of 1987 time so now it’s equivalent to three and a half months in 2008 time.
Half of the schools I attended are now closed and slightly more haunted looking than when I was there oh those many years ago.
My wife thinks buying the now defunct Willow Street School as a vacation home is insane as it would take forever to clean - but that’s probably not the real reason she or any sane person might oppose such a scheme.
I still think everyone on the road is a tourist except for me.
Add comment September 15th, 2008
Hello, Addison
Do I look like I was born yesterday?
- Addison
Yep. Howdy, niece!
Add comment July 13th, 2008
Starbucks
It’s as if I felt a great disturbance in the force (caffeine), as if millions of voices cried out at once and were suddenly silenced.
I like Starbucks. I realize some in the coffee consuming community thinks their coffee tastes too burnt, and that millionaire television pundits think anyone who drinks there is an “elite”, and not as touch with the common man as a pundit in a limo might be, but I like them nonetheless.
Add comment July 1st, 2008
Happy Canada Day
July 1st is Canada day, they day we all give thanks they decided to not put a beaver on our flag.
Add comment July 1st, 2008
Mistakes unpublished?
If you make a mistake on the Internet - or a decision you regret - you can sort-of take it back. But with Google cache and a million monkeys blogging out there, people will certainly notice if you go back and delete old posts. The usually critical of opacity site, Boing Boing, “unpublished” a blogger named Violet Blue (more or less NSFW website, depending where you work) silently. Folks noticed, and they finally responded with their reasoning. Fair enough, but I have always hated the idea of unpublishing especially on a blog. If you might take a blog for a book, it’s like removing a book from all existence that’s already been footnoted in other books. I think they should have said they are not publishing Violet’s stuff in the future, even if they declined to say why. At most, put a disclaimer on all posts related to her on their blog. By not telling us why, it makes me think there’s some pragmatic motive, like an attempt to make the whole site more purely PG-13 with an eye to commercial interests in the future, but no one outside of the people there would know.
Update: Good theory here (near the bottom, as an update to the post).
Add comment July 1st, 2008
