The front page of the newspaper today is all about how AIG is "too big to fail", and is so big that it dominates its part of the financial market, and would cause financial apocalypse if it failed, and that's why the government has been pouring so much good money after bad into propping it up ( Read more... )

I don't remember a landslide like this in any Presidential election in my lifetime since I was old enough to notice ( Read more... )

What is it with the identity politics this go-round? It's bugging me.

They keep doing little mini-documentoids on the radio about what sort of voters support this or that candidate and it seems really insulting to me. Apparently if you're female you are supposed to naturally support Hillary Clinton because you want to see a woman in the White House ( Read more... )

Been hearing some more bad things about the death of Benazir Bhutto. There was a weird lull in news stories on the radio for a couple of days that seemed kind of suspicious for an event of this magnitude. I was away from the internet so I don't know if the news blackout, or whatever it was, happened there as well. It would be hard to tell anyway ( Read more... )

Do you remember when they first started putting ads on shopping carts in the grocery store? Remember thinking at that time that it seemed like advertising was starting to be on everything? I was thinking about this yesterday and I realized that at this point that seems almost innocent ( Read more... )

House appropriations subcommittee refuses funding for RRW program.

It's called the "Reliable Replacement Warhead" program, but it's actually a program to design and build new nuclear warheads for the US arsenal. To "replace" aging and unsafe ones, says the Bush administration. (In what Orwellian universe can any nuclear weapon be described as " ( Read more... )

The funniest thing I've heard yet about the death of Jerry Falwell:

"My mother always said that I should only speak good about the dead. 
So Jerry Falwell is dead. Good." 
Robin Artisson said that.

From the department of stranger than fiction, the report of the 9/11 Commission is being published as a graphic novel. Yes, you read that right, there is now a comic book version of the 9/11 report ( Read more... )