Fucking rules!

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This is a very long, very thoughtful piece written by former NPR and NBC “Dateline” reporter John Hockenberry about life on the inside:
Finding such comparisons was how I kept from slipping into a coma during dozens of NBC employee training sessions where we were told not to march in political demonstrations of any kind, not [...]

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With everyone except the Beltway SansaBelt crowd.
I’ve decided from now on, that’s how I will refer to the Beltway Bobbleheads in honor of this quote from Stephen Colbert: “Facts should be like Sansabelt pants, adjustable to fit your needs.”

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Patrick Wolf:

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Carla Thomas:

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A new record? Oh boy:
Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — Defaults on privately insured U.S. mortgages rose 35 percent in November to a record, an industry report today showed, adding to evidence the U.S. housing slump is deepening.
The number of insured borrowers falling more than 60 days late on payments jumped to 61,033 last month from 45,325 [...]

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Bloomberg and his bevy of bloviating bipartisans.

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For some reason, this made me think of you:

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Yes, even blog readers have been known to get stupid on New Year’s Eve. Don’t be stupid, and please wrestle the keys away from any friend who’s too drunk to drive. We don’t want another tragedy like this:
Five members of a Maryland family died late yesterday when their minivan was hit head-on by a pickup [...]

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If it’s not one thing, it’s another, as Roseanne Rosannadanna used to say.
Okay, I made this appointment to get my car inspected a week ago and was there bright and early this morning. I waited - and waited. Finally, after 45 minutes, the owner showed up to inform everyone who was waiting that he hurt [...]

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Are we still allowed to listen to them?
UPDATE: Gee, the Post got it wrong! They’re suing the guy for downloading.

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It’s important that people understand this subprime crisis has wide-reaching effects on everyone. This isn’t a matter of “just poor people with shitty credit.” The corporate greed behind this sustained economic pillage has resulted in a train wreck that will affect us for decades (and of course, somehow the Republicans will manage to blame it [...]

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I think we can all see at this point what happens when you let corporate power run amok:
During the housing boom, the subprime industry succeeded at more than just writing mortgages. It also shot down efforts by some states to curtail risky lending to borrowers with spotty credit.
Ameriquest Mortgage Co., until recently one of the [...]

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Wilco:

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The more I think about Kristol getting a column at the Times, the madder I get. There are several hundred thousand dead Iraqis as a result of the bad information he persistently pushed to the American public, and this is treated as, oh, I don’t know, a minor faux pas?
But this is the problem [...]

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For Halliburton, who was one of the companies violating the Iraq sanctions. I’ll just sit here and hold my breath waiting for Dick Cheney to be questioned:
GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca have been asked to hand over papers as part of a probe into bribes allegedly paid to Saddam Hussein’s former Iraq regime.
The Serious Fraud Office is [...]

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Your country may be turning fascist:

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Okay, it’s been major ongoing stress that I have to get my car inspected tomorrow. Stress No. 1: How much will it cost? At least $400 and probably more. Stress No. 2: Where the hell did I put my new registration and insurance card?
Today I finally found my insurance card. Now I’ve lost my keys. [...]

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Where the corporations make up the rules as they go along:
Despite more than 20,000 lawsuits filed against music fans in the years since they started finding free tunes online rather than buying CDs from record companies, the recording industry has utterly failed to halt the decline of the record album or the rise of digital [...]

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More horse hockey. More blather about “bipartisanship” and “consensus.” Well, we had consensus - an ill-informed consensus, grounded in the lies this administration manufactured to rationalize its every move - and as a result, we handed this bunch of crooks and liars everything they wanted for the past seven years. It’s time to fix those [...]

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Every time I have to shell out another $300 for another car repair, I consider the alternative:
When Jennifer and Bobby Post traded in their 2001 Chevy Suburban last year for a shiny new Ford F-350 turbo diesel with an extended cab, it seemed like a great deal. Even though they still owed $9,500 on their [...]

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Andy Rosenthal on the hiring of William Kristol by the New York Times:
“The idea that The New York Times is giving voice to a guy who is a serious, respected conservative intellectual — and somehow that’s a bad thing,” Rosenthal added. “How intolerant is that?”
“Serious.” “Respected.” Respected by whom - the 27% of [...]

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If this happens, I wonder how long it will be before there’s another assassination:
A senior official of Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) told TIME late Saturday that the slain former prime minister’s 19-year-old son, Bilawal, will likely be named as her political heir and the new party leader on Sunday. PPP members are due [...]

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James Carville is a classic DINO. I would refuse to support any candidate that put him in a position to leak information about Democratic strategy again, because that candidate clearly doesn’t want to win.

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I hope my funeral is just like Graham Chapman’s:

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I have a love-hate relationship with the Mummers parade.
No, let me rephrase that: I hate the Mummers parade. It’s a local drinking holiday, and I have too many childhood memories of standing in the bitter cold, watching the drunken adults laughing and talking too loud and asking again and again, “Can we go home now? [...]

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My new computer is here and I think I’m in love. It’s so much smaller - about three times the width of my laptop, and about the same length.
Now all I have to do is remove Vista and get Maya over here to migrate my data, and I’m good to go. Yay!

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The Bird and the Bee, one of my new faves:

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Personally, I think she shot herself and then blew herself up. Yeah, that’s it.

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Neil Young:

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