Looks like Lehman is going to be liquidated. Merrill may be next.Remember all those glossy paens to investment bankers and hedge funds and CDOs and the frictionless magic of the market in an age of global capitalism and how government regulation of our financial institutions and...
This is unfortunate. A great writer....what to say? Didn't strike me as the type. He was one of my favorite contemporary writers; I didn't find his work depressing at all..
This is troubling:Carnegie Mellon University, whose team placed first at Urban Challenge, is partnering up with tractor-maker Caterpillar to build the world's largest ground robot: a 700-ton robo dump truck.
. . . is because of the injuries he suffered as a POW?I mean have they?h/t Jason Zengerle.
Shorter Krauthammer:The Bush Doctrine? It's forty different things! It's democracy, whiskey and sexy! It's John Kennedy! Suck on that, Charles Gibson!Here's a testimony to the profound fucktacularity of the Bush.
Stooping to a new, trivial low for this blog, I offer The Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator. The instructions are a little unclear -- full name? first name only? first.
Hilzoy:You'd think that $5,000 to $14,000 a year would be a small price to pay for putting violent sex offenders behind bars. Apparently, Sarah Palin disagrees.I guess policies that prevent poor women from having legal recourse (or subjecting them to crushing debt) when they're subject to...
Lynn Forrester de Rothschild.Look, if Obama is going to shed the "elitist" label he needs to stop talking so much about progressive economic policies and start distributing more free caviar.
I don't know whether it will be dozens or hundreds, but my friend Steve the atmospheric scientist is pessimistic. He says that people aren't sufficiently frightened of Ike because its.
Check out the headline and lede for this story:Palin Links Iraq to Sept. 11 In Talk to Troops in AlaskaBy Anne E.KornblutWashington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 12, 2008; Page A01FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska, Sept. 11 -- Gov. Sarah Palin linked the war in Iraq with the...
From about the internets...Efforts to ditch Mitch continue apace. Now with video!Michael Stickings noodles on nationalist kitsch and the GOP.David Greenberg accuses several bloggers, including myself, of being part of.
Identify the major vessels (by class) in this photo.Postcard courtesy of W. Walter Rule, Jr., ACOM (ret) and Kelly M. Rule.