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No title 2009-01-14 02:14:48 I just found a new term to tuck away in my super-senior tranche of economic buzz-words: ’super contango’. The market for a non-perishable commodity is said to be in contango when futures for that commodity are trading for more than the current ‘now price’. (The reverse situation is called ‘backwardation’, which means that no matter [...]
Palin on Palin 2009-01-13 18:58:17 No, nothing like that. Just a little advice for her former self:
If I were giving advice to myself back on the day my candidacy was announced, I’d say, Tell the campaign that you’ll be callin’ some of the shots. Don’t just assume that they know you well enough to make all your decisions for ya. [...]
Bush’s Top Ten 2009-01-13 18:19:50 The Weekly Standard has a glowing review of the Bush era, listing his top 10 achievments. Here they are, with commentary. Boldface type is the Standard, the rest is Despotic wisdom:
1.) [H]is decision in 2001 to jettison the Kyoto global warming treaty so loved by Al Gore, the environmental lobby, elite opinion, and Europeans.
Strictly speaking, [...] Read more:Top Ten
Christopher Hitchens Still Doesn’t Like the Clintons 2009-01-13 17:18:23 No surprise here:
Before me, for example, is the report of a pledge of $100 million to the Clinton Foundation’s Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative by a set of companies based in Vancouver and known as the Lundin Group. The ostensible purpose of this mind-boggling contribution is stated in the usual vacuous terms of “sustainable local [...] Read more:Christopher
Live Long and Die Out 2009-01-13 16:53:03 If you’re looking for a fun group of crazy people to laugh at - and who isn’t? - you could do worse than checking out the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, or VHMT. That’s not a typo. The ‘t’ is apparently there to remind you that they want it pronounced ‘vehement’, though I can’t imagine why [...]
Question of the Day 2009-01-13 16:23:42 What the hell was Olmert thinking?
In an unusually public rebuke, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel said Monday that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had been forced to abstain from a United Nations resolution on Gaza that she helped draft, after Mr. Olmert placed a phone call to President Bush.
“I said, ‘Get me President Bush [...] Read more:Question
Joe the Plumber Comes to thee, O Israel 2009-01-13 02:19:00 This is a sad day for the Despot. We made it through the election with out once mentioning Joe the Plumber. (Well, either that, or our site search is broken, which is certainly possible.) In any case, I can’t think of three words that make me wince quite like ‘Joe the Plumber’. It’s not so [...] Read more:Israel
Bad News is no News 2009-01-12 23:01:38 This is bad news:
Israel on Monday banned Arab political parties from running in next month’s parliamentary elections, drawing accusations of racism by an Arab lawmaker who said he would challenge the decision in the country’s Supreme Court.
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Parliament spokesman Giora Pordes said the election committee voted overwhelmingly in favor of the motion, accusing the country’s Ar Read more:Bad News
Loveliest of Governors, the Blago now… 2009-01-12 22:18:03 Ben Smith shares a poem written by his former colleague Alice Phillips:
This is just to hold a press conference to announce
I have filled
the Senate seat
that it was in
my power to fill
and which you were probably
saving
for Quinn
Forgive me
it was a fucking valuable thing
so sweet
and so fucking golden
If you aren’t familiar with the poem of which this [...] Read more:Governors
The Chewbacca Defense 2009-01-09 17:08:14 I’m sure other people have already pointed out the similarity here, but I haven’t seen it yet. Here is Southpark, mocking Johnny Cochran, and anticipating the Blago press conference I just posted:
This sort of thing is apparently pretty common in court rooms. It doesn’t even have to be the defense. Oliver Stone’s JFK, for instance, [...] Read more:Defense
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