Via JenJen in the comments, Ben Folds playing chatroulette in front of a live audience: It all started with Merton. And there’s more.
Archives for April 2010
Three Amigos
Three Republican House members have opted-out of their leadership’s ban on earmarks: Don Young, Anh ‘Joseph’ Cao and Ron Paul. It’s easy to understand why the most crooked and the most vulnerable Republicans would opt out. Paul’s a more interesting case. The Paul formula for staying in office is simple: he brings home all the …
All the Lies Are Brown
Not just a Repub wet dream… Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy __ … which, of course, is why Cosmo Boy will not stop lying about Maddow’s phantom candidacy. An articulate left-wing lesbian is the perfect Teabagger boogie-monster, an ideal image to scare the rubes into emptying their wallets …
Open Thread
Here is a moment of zen for you on this Friday morning: It is good to be the king. Also, new petitions for you to take part in on the right over there.
Steering the Titanic With a Canoe Paddle
This week’s This American Life is devoted to the closing of NUMMI, an auto plant that was a joint venture between Toyota and GM. It’s both touching and infuriating. The story of how the worst plant in GM was transformed by Toyota’s methods is an affecting tale of human redemption. “Old, fat” UAW members, accustomed …
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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
It’s the economy, stoopid: Employers added 162,000 non-farm payroll jobs in March, the government reported Friday, the strongest job growth since the nation entered recession in December 2007 and the strongest confirmation yet that the U.S. economy is on the mend. In another bit of good news, the unemployment rate in March held steady at …
See No Evil, Speak No Evil, Make a Shitload of Money
Via Jim Henley, this charming story about one of my favorite issues: As the bottom fell out of the housing market and complex mortgage-backed securities began tanking in 2007, a strange thing happened at Moody’s Investors Service, one of the largest firms that rate bonds for the risks they pose to investors. Moody’s blue-ribbon board …
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