I love how our Captains of Industry constantly call for the government to keep its nose out of the marketplace, and then as soon as all their awful decisions catch up with them it suddenly becomes to government’s job to bail them out.
Anyway, if you or anyone you know has any interest in buying a […]
Posted on March 25th, 2008 by Ben
Filed under: Economy, Finance, Personal | No Comments »
in the wake of virginia tech and NIU, the university of iowa implemented an expensive emergency notification system that’s supposed to phone, text or email you when bad shit happens.
today, in response to a particularly horrific early-morning domestic murder, the system was activated. it worked beautifully, by all accounts, in that most university students, faculty […]
Posted on March 24th, 2008 by josh
Filed under: Iowa, campus violence | 1 Comment »
holy shit, that took long enough.
Posted on March 23rd, 2008 by josh
Filed under: Podcast | 2 Comments »
Off-hand thought of the day:
The sort of populist, inspirational, hope-centric, paradigm-shifting, outsider/anti-establishment campaign Obama is running this year is stunningly similar to Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign. That the tables have so drastically turned is among the strongest reasons to support Obama over Hillary Clinton.
Bonus weirdness: a google search for “Barak Obama” generates 1.6 million more […]
Posted on March 21st, 2008 by gray
Filed under: Democratic Primary, Obama, Politics | 1 Comment »
Well, this week has been hard for Obama. He can kiss the racist vote goodbye.
Rick Wilson, the same asshole who tarnished Max Cleland’s reputation among rednecks by associating him with Osama Bin Laden, is licking his chops over this whole Jeremiah Wright affair. On CNN tonight he called it a “gold mine.”
Let me see: Cleland […]
Posted on March 21st, 2008 by mark
Filed under: Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
this is the most metal thing i’ve ever heard of.
Notes left by Mr Tovey… revealed that he had scoured the internet for plans before constructing his complex machine, which involved a jigsaw power tool and was connected to a .22 semi-automatic pistol loaded with four bullets. It could fire multiple shots once triggered remotely.
At 7am […]
Posted on March 20th, 2008 by josh
Filed under: awesome band names, posts in questionable taste, things that are metal | 1 Comment »
all this time i’ve been instinctively skeptical — maybe even a little bit susceptible to the clinton meme about pretty words vs. substance — but no more. obama is for real.
today’s speech was just about the most truthful, meaningful, and eloquent commentary on race and american history that i’ve heard from a mainstream politician in my […]
Posted on March 18th, 2008 by josh
Filed under: Democratic Primary, Obama, Politics, race | 4 Comments »
says G Dub.
http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10872696&top_story=1
Open thread for all things economy
Posted on March 17th, 2008 by charlie
Filed under: Finance | No Comments »
hey, remember us? we’re iowa.
where’ve you been, democratic primary process? you never call anymore, you never write. seems like just a few weeks ago you were all over us. what happened?
well, while you were busy obsessing over obama’s crazy preacher and spitzer’s whoring, we just saved the day, again. y’know how hillary clinton’s campaign […]
Posted on March 15th, 2008 by josh
Filed under: Democratic Primary, Iowa, Iowa Caucus, Politics | 2 Comments »
i’ll admit, i didn’t think much of the wire when it premiered in 2002. at first glance it was just another retread of a hopelessly played-out genre — the gritty urban cop show — and worse, a staging of the war-on-drugs melodrama that seemed to affirm and reinforce predictable roles of good-guy cops and bad-guy […]
Posted on March 12th, 2008 by josh
Filed under: HBO, The Wire, Uncategorized, more meta than meta, television | 2 Comments »
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