Archive for: January 2010

It’s much more than that, really. From Insty
…I have to agree with Arne Duncan that the hurricane was the best thing that could happen to New Orleans public schools.The system was so atrocious before the storm that you actually …

Given that this clown show meets for relatively few hours, probably there’s more time for extracurricular malfeasance.
Nearly 100 allegations of senatorial misconduct were made in 2009, and 13 preliminary investigations over potential breaches of Senate ethics rules were launched, …

Peter Pan can’t figure out why it didn’t work out with Wendy, writes book. (h/t William Jacobson)

LA Times Television critic, writing on seeing more “old people” in media, has to pause half way through to engage in …

Jules Crittenden and the anti-Salingerites double down on their criticisms of Catcher in the Rye as an “angst-ridden wankfest” (with some of the criticism this time even coming from those who’ve read the book), and offer what they are …

For your Saturday consideration, an excerpt from “Banks: Corporate Bundles of Dismal Joy – and Mislaid Rage“.
Goldman Sachs, Citibank, BofA. What is their business? It turns out, not even the Chief Executive Officers know exactly. The investors, less so. …

Once you’ve had enough to drink, enjoy these and follow on with your own.

All Right Now

Dinosaurs rock.

Man out of time

Used to love the Elvoid as a college deejay.

Rubberband Man
Give up the funk
The nicest thing …

Uh-oh. The British are trying to make sense of our health care reform brawl.  This article from the BBC is dismayingly entitled Why do people often vote against their own interests? Great. Concern trolling from arguably …

Me: Bombay Sapphire martini – stirred not shaken – 4 gin to 1 dry vermouth, three Mezzetta garlic stuffed olives

SlartCompletely coincidentally, I am at this moment drinking a Bombay Sapphire martini, shaken, over a carefully removed and twisted (which …

Looks like I won’t be up and running until March.

So. If you didn’t contribute earlier this year and want to contribute for February, there’s no time like the present. (Ordinarily I’d wait until the first of the month …

Unless, you know — you do.

Which, hey, it happens. I’m just not so sure I’d go about advertising it, though.