I’d missed yesterday’s Times piece on Lehman, but it’s worth mentioning that US corporate lawyers come off looking pretty good: Here, the investment bank used repos to temporarily park assets off its books to make its end-of-quarter debt levels look better than they did — while calling them sales instead of loans. The accounting tactic, …
Brooks Would Be a Lousy Whip
On NPR’s All Things Considered, David Brooks was discussing how Nancy Pelosi would convince House members to vote for HCR. He said she would say something like, “Well, you’re going to lose your seat over this, but for the good of the country, you need to make this vote.” Horseshit. Pelosi would say the opposite: …
The Central Scrutinizer
Those of you who are thinking about places to move after Palin wins in 2012 might want to cross the home of the Lord of the Rings, Bondi Beach and Tuscany from your list if you want to keep reading Balloon Juice. Over in Frodo’s back yard, New Zealand has just implemented net censorship. Last month, …
This is for Bart
Since there’s a special rule that all Catholic Democrats can obstruct any legislation in conflict with their religion, just like all Jewish Democrats, and even all Muslim Democrats (those were added when Keith Ellison got elected), I thought this little educational video might help us better understand some of the Catholic teachings that Bart Stupak …
Intro
Some commenters in the last post wondered where I came from. Others asked to have me kicked out. I guess that’s the Balloon Juice community’s way to ask for an introduction. So, hi, I’m mistermix. I’m a friend of DougJ’s IRL, as the kids say. When he pastes a rant “from a friend” into one …
Purely Useless
If the mighty Rahmbama was able to eject Massa from Congress, how did he miss the continued existence of Dennis Kucinich, who’s done little but bitch and obstruct for his 7 terms in Congress: In fact, according to the Web site GovTrack, of the 97 bills Kucinich has sponsored since taking office in 1997, only three …
Some Non-Whining
Looks like we need an open thread. Here’s something you might want to consider: Publishers can do whatever they want. If you don’t like it, don’t send them nasty emails or browse their sites with ad-blockers: just don’t support them. Don’t read their content, don’t link to them, and don’t talk about them. Since money’s …