This may not have everything (or anything) to do with reality, but I'm going to say it.

On the "auto industry"1 bailouts ... while I would rather have them go into Chapter 112, they probably won't. I can't stop entertaining thoughts that can be summed up as "taking my ball and going home" even though they're not likely to happen. In short, I ( Read more... )

I think California should lead the way by voting NO on Prop. 8. At least it'd give less progressive states a good example to follow. Even though I'm single, I don't feel the need to have any theoretical marriage of mine "protected" by withholding the legal right to marry from same-sex couples.

If you're a US taxpayer, want to find out how benefactors of the massive $700 billion money grab are using your money? You can try, but unfortunately you won't get very far. It's also been said the money's being used for mergers and acquisitions instead of making more loans available.

I'd thought at first that this anti-Obama flyer came out of the South, or rural Kentucky...

To whichever village is missing its idiot, they're in Las Vegas, apparently!

(though to be fair, the comment which justifies not voting for McCain that had seven of its own reasons, all being "Sarah Palin," was about as convincing as this flyer.)

In three words, ticket quotas suck. Talk about whacked priorities...

25 Harsh Reactions to the Wall Street Money Grab

I saw this in an article summary on Google News:

What's your view about granting taxpayers stock in any company taking part in the proposed $700 billion bailout?Cool! An automatic stock portfolio I didn't have before! And make them pay us dividends while we're at it. On the other hand, I'm not even sure any of the people responsible for this ( Read more... )

Excuse me if I look a bit dense, but... It looks like I may have to pay for the mistakes of others soon enough. And also, if the credit crunch is bad like the news makes it out to be, I wonder if I'll have to continue renting ( Read more... )

Price gouging is back. I filled up for $3.499 yesterday at 103 and Wornall. Today, the price is $3.599. The other day, it was $3.349 ( Read more... )

UPDATE 2008-09-08: Dave may have taken down the videos I pointed toTurns out that Dave Rock had a very good reason for becoming famous on YouTube ( Read more... )