March 2009
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Captain Freedom, A Superhero For A Self-Absorbed...
A Superhero For A Self-Absorbed Society →
you will likely enjoy listening to this.
Cut loose by the upper management of Gotham Comix, Captain Freedom is at a crossroads. He must find a new identity and a new purpose in life. So he does what any self-respecting celebrity superhero would do: hires a life coach and starts searching for his roots.
“Listening to Coyle and Sharpe is a bit like traveling to a foreign...”
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“May We Graft Chicken Wings
To Your Head In The Interest of Aviation?”
The World Of James T. Coyle and Mal Sharpe
By Kenny G
“Indeed, such knee-jerk populist rage is precisely what gave populist rage a bad...”
– Stuart Whatley: Enough With The Pitchforks And Head-Rolling
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“Falk said the Geneva Convention required forces at war to be able to distinguish...”
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Al Jazeera - UN: Gaza assault was ‘inhumane’
Watchinfrastructurist via @rangdebasanti
“This sordid story of government helplessness in the face of massive taxpayer...”
– The Real Scandal of AIG by Robert Reich in The Huffington Post
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“Put hopes in shaker. Add dreams. Shake until dashed, then drink all the vodka,...”
– COCKTAIL RECIPES FOR THE RECESSION
Gone are the Cosmopolitans and pomegranate martinis—bartenders are designing a whole new breed of cocktails for 2009…
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Where is Our Orchestra? What Journalism Can Learn... →
by Daniel Sinker in the Huffington Post
"My 401k lost 60% of its value. Damn right that...
peterwknox:
alexbalk:
Bernard Madoff, who pleaded guilty today to masterminding the largest Ponzi scheme in history, may have to fight off prison inmates who want to squeeze him for money or blame him for the Wall Street crash. “Madoff isn’t going to be real popular,” said Larry Levine, who served 10 years in federal prisons for securities fraud and narcotics trafficking and now advises...
artichokes and beer
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“Q. Is there one word name for your philosophy? If you’re not a socialist,...”
– NYT Peppers Obama With Questions About Socialism
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All the President’s Pens →
It’s difficult to fix the economy when you can’t find a stapler. ZHUBIN PARANG reviews some recently declassified White House audio tapes as President Obama works through his first 100 days.
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January 25, 2009, 1150 A.M.
SENATOR ARLEN SPECTOR (on speakerphone): Well, I’m sorry, Mr. President, but with the stimulus bill the way it is now I simply can’t give you my support.
OBAMA: Well, you’re going to regret this, Arlen. I’ve already got enough Republicans on board, so I don’t need you. So you think long and hard about whether you want to piss me off for a vote that won’t make any difference!
(button being pushed)
OBAMA: I tell you what, Rahm, I hope he doesn’t see through that bluff. I really need him on this.
SPECTOR: Uh, I’m still on.
OBAMA: Oh, you gotta be kidding me.
(button being pushed)
OBAMA: Hello?
SPECTOR: Still here.
OBAMA: How does this stupid phone hang up?!
(multiple buttons being pushed)
SPECTOR: Still on.
VICE-PRESIDENT BIDEN (on speakerphone): Hello? Did someone conference me in?
WatchNOW: Naomi Klein on Israeli Apartheid Week
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An Ode To Government, by Bill Maher →
via The Huffington Post:
“recent years have made me much more wary of government doing the opposite: of stepping aside and letting unregulated private enterprise run things it is plainly too greedy to trust with … Republicans always frame the healthcare debate by saying that healthcare decisions are to be made by doctors and patients, not government bureaucrats … leaving out...
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“The signage problem:
“Designers long ago began pointing out that the TTC...”
– Inscribed in the living tile: Type in the Toronto subway (Joe Clark)
Immigrant youth less prone to violent acts [Globe... →
Youths who immigrated to Toronto after the age of 5 tend to be closer to their families and are more likely to aspire to attend university than their Canadian-born counterparts - and that helps keep…
how do you treat a waitress? http://tinyurl.com/c2dqrz
how do you treat a waitress? http://tinyurl.com/c2dqrz
see also Studs Terkel’s ‘Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do’ (1974)
further studies in muffin making this weekend