...does this mean we won't be seeing those dopey "WaMu" commercials anymore, now that JP Morgan bought them up, and seeing how JP Morgan is probably chock-full of the types of fat white guys those commercials liked to send up ( Read more... )

Today reminds me of a few things ( Read more... )

http://www.wptz.com/news/17539127/detail.html

At least someone at Ben and Jerry's has half a brain.

The champion of "smaller government", deregulation, and the free market was on tv today, championing the federalization of the mortgage industry and praising the restriction of short-selling on the market. No new taxes, plenty of new debt. Barry Goldwater must be spinning so fast in his grave, we could wire him up and power the Eastern seaboard. ( Read more... )

The lead story on CNN.com is about the stock market rally ( Read more... )

So apparently Spain's our enemy again. McCain just can't see fit to fathom inviting Spain's prime minister to his future White House. If you read the actual transcript of his interview with a Spanish newspaper, the whole thing is just kinda scary ( Read more... )

"As state employees, our clients have taken an oath to uphold the Alaska Constitution, and for that reason, they respect the Legislature's desire to carry out an investigation in support of its lawmaking powers," Attorney General Talis Colberg, a Palin appointee, told the investigation's manager in a letter released Wednesday ( Read more... )

to paraphrase ( Read more... )

This whole "lipstick on a pig" shit is seriously pissing me off. Every time it came up on the radio news on the drive home, I was compelled to yell "STUPID" over and over until the story ended. For fuck's sake, we can't all be this dumb, can we? This is not news; why it's being reported as such makes me want to smash things ( Read more... )

with her Simpsons quote. Bad Connie, bad.