Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Adventures of Letterman, Electric Company, Gene Wilder, Joan Rivers, Spell Binder, Zero Mostel on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
OMG! Origin story of The Adventures of Letterman! This was hands down my favourite segment on Electric Company. Much more of a Sesame Streeter otherwise. Praise be YouTube. (And who knew? Joan Rivers narrated, Zero Mostel was Spell Binder, and Gene Wilder was Letterman)
Faster than a rolling ‘O’
Stronger than silent ‘E’
Able [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged New York Times, Suketu Mehta, terrorist attack on Mumbai, What They Hate About Mumbai on November 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Excellent op-ed by Suketu Mehta; an excerpt does not do it justice.
My bleeding city. My poor great bleeding heart of a city. Why do they go after Mumbai? There’s something about this island-state that appalls religious extremists, Hindus and Muslims alike. Perhaps because Mumbai stands for lucre, profane dreams and an indiscriminate openness.
Mumbai is all [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Hubble telescope, Hubblesite.org, Loner Starburst Galaxy, Starburst Galaxy NGC 1569 on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Starburst Galaxy NGC 1569
This image taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases the brilliant core of one of the most active galaxies in our local neighborhood. The entire core is 5,000 light-years wide.
The galaxy, called NGC 1569, sparkles with the light from millions of newly formed young stars. NGC 1569 is pumping out stars at [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bailout, dot-com bubble, economic crisis, federal market regulation, housing bubble, Lest We Forget, Paul Krugman on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Learn ye your history here:
In fact, both the crisis of 1997-98 and the bursting of the dot-com bubble probably had the perverse effect of making both investors and public officials more, not less, complacent. Because neither crisis quite lived up to our worst fears, because neither brought about another Great Depression, investors came to believe [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bush administration Code of Federal Regulations, Bush anti-environment anti-OSHA, Bush midnight regulations, Bush pushes eleventh-hour regulations, Labor Department eases toxic substance rules on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just sickening. If only Bush were TRULY a lame duck, unable to push through all of these disgusting new rules.
The Labor Department is racing to complete a new rule, strenuously opposed by President-elect Barack Obama, that would make it much harder for the government to regulate toxic substances and hazardous chemicals to which workers are [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2008 election results map, interactive election night map 2008, Talking Points Memo on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This one is good enough to have state names on it, for those of us a tad shaky on placing all 50 states. Click through for the handy dandy interactive version, compliments Talking Points Memo.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Hillary Clinton, Obama transition team, Samantha Power joins State Department transition team on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Oy. Here comes the Team of Rivals Extreme Awkward Moments
Samantha Power, the Obama foreign-policy adviser who had to resign from the campaign after she called Hillary Clinton a “monster” who was “stooping to anything” in the primaries, and who also got in a bit of trouble for saying Obama wouldn’t necessarily be sticking to his [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bailout, Fed Lending, government bailout spending, loan guarantees, Talking Points Memo, TARP on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve heard a number of reports over recent days putting the total government bailout costs at several trillions of dollars. But there are a lot of apples and oranges being thrown around. There are directly appropriated US government spending on the TARP. Then there’s Fed lending, which is different. Then there are various loan guarantees [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cat in sink, diet soda box cat on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mr. Adorable, aka diet soda box cat, takes to the sink
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christian hypocrisy, I'm Not One Of Those 'Love Thy Neighbor' Christians, The Onion on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Now, granted, there are some Christians on the lunatic fringe who take their beliefs a little too far. Take my coworker Karen, for example. She’s way off the deep end when it comes to religion: going down to the homeless shelter to volunteer once a month, donating money to the poor, visiting elderly shut-ins with [...]
