Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in My So-Called Life on Oct 31st, 2008
Damn, I ran out of candy in the first 15 minutes. I had to run around the corner to the Rite Aid and could only find the candy dregs on the shelves. (Like, dark chocolate mint Musketeer bars? Who knew?)
My favorite costume of the night was a beautiful blue and green iridescent outfit on a [...]
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Oct 31st, 2008
Why John McCain is so confident, my friends!
Newly obtained computer schematics provide further detail of how electronic voting data was routed during the 2004 election from Ohio’s Secretary of State’s office through a partisan Tennessee web hosting company.
A network security expert with high-level US government clearances, who is also a former McCain delegate, says the [...]
Posted in Arts & Music, Media on Oct 31st, 2008
Studs Terkel, 96.
Posted in Life in the Big City, The American Game on Oct 31st, 2008
Chase Utley to the massive crowd at Citizen Bank Park just now:
“World champions,” he said, looking around the crowd with obvious satisfaction. “World fucking champions!”
The crowd roared.
Posted in The American Game on Oct 31st, 2008
“We’re gonna win again next year, too - Brett Myers says so.”
- Phillies Manager Charlie Manuel to the overflow crowd at Lincoln Field.
Posted in Arts & Music on Oct 31st, 2008
Michael Jackson.
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on Oct 31st, 2008
Juan Cole defends Rashid Khalidi against McCain allegations:
I know it may seem a novel idea to people like McCain and Palin, but it would be worthwhile actually reading Khalidi’s book on the Palestinian struggle for statehood. (I urge bloggers interested in this issue to link to his book, which the American reading public should [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, Recession Depression, Republicans Are Good With Money on Oct 31st, 2008
Via Avedon, Bill Greider:
The swindle of American taxpayers is proceeding more or less in broad daylight, as the unwitting voters are preoccupied with the national election. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson agreed to invest $125 billion in the nine largest banks, including $10 billion for Goldman Sachs, his old firm. But, if you look more closely [...]
Posted in Life in the Big City, The American Game on Oct 31st, 2008
Anything used to its full capacity will break, and the Philadelphia public transit system is officially at that point. All incoming commuter trains have been halted, and the southbound Broad St. Subway is now stopping at Vine St. and will go no further south.
Posted in Arts & Music on Oct 31st, 2008
A new song from Bruce Springsteen.
Posted in Arts & Music on Oct 31st, 2008
One of my closest friends is a psychic, and she, well, she sees things. Ghosts, I guess you’d call them. Lately, it’s not just her. Her two teenaged kids are seeing them, too.
And then there’s the other stuff. The doors that open and close, people calling your name but no one else is in the [...]
Posted in Life in the Big City, The American Game on Oct 31st, 2008
If you didn’t, uh, call in “sick” today, you can watch the parade live right now by clicking here.
You know what I love about this? Somewhere in that crowd is the next Jamie Moyer, Ryan Howard, Cole Hamels, Chase Utley or Shane Victorino. Somewhere in that crowd, some kid is falling in love with the [...]
Posted in Arts & Music on Oct 31st, 2008
Who doesn’t like a nice zombie video for Halloween? Tilly and the Wall:
Posted in My So-Called Life on Oct 31st, 2008
In a bit of unfortunate timing, my 85-year-old mother is taking the train to Florida today to visit my brother - and they keep saying on the news that the transit system is completely overwhelmed by people pouring into the city today for the Phillies victory parade, with delays up to an hour and a [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on Oct 31st, 2008
An eye-opening look.
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Oct 31st, 2008
Nothing like trashing the place on the way out!
The White House is working to enact a wide array of federal regulations, many of which would weaken government rules aimed at protecting consumers and the environment, before President Bush leaves office in January.
The new rules would be among the most controversial deregulatory steps of the Bush [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual on Oct 31st, 2008
From Haaretz.
Posted in Friday Fun on Oct 31st, 2008
Going to any parties? What are you going to be?
Posted in Recession Depression on Oct 31st, 2008
Bad news for a state which depends on this for a living:
PORTLAND, Maine - The price of Maine lobster, which accounts for 80 percent of the U.S. catch, is tanking.
The primary factor, a drop-off in demand by penny-pinching diners, has been in place since summer. But a secondary problem recently surfaced: the global banking crisis [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Shadow Knows on Oct 31st, 2008
Another Republican politician.
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2008
To my Wiccan friends and readers!
Posted in Higher Ground, Life in the Big City, The American Game on Oct 31st, 2008
Rich Hofmann:
If you have ever been a young guy working at a newspaper, you never forget how nervous you are the first time you write an obituary and have to call the family. But it’s funny - they’re always fine about it. They want to talk to you. They want people to know about their [...]
Posted in Higher Ground on Oct 31st, 2008
My friend Brian has a really well-written blog about both post-peak oil and family life in Ireland. Despite being incredibly knowledgeable about an incredibly dire subject, he manages to keep a delightfully peaceful perspective. His post today about happiness really epitomizes what I love about his blog:
To a poor man, more is better, and all [...]
Posted in Life in the Big City on Oct 31st, 2008
Phil Sheridan:
Up in the clubhouse, Ruiz came around the countertop that divides the enormous room in half and spied a man in unacceptably dry Phillies gear being interviewed by a TV reporter. It was unclear whether Chooch realized the man he was spraying in the face with champagne was the mayor of Philadelphia, although it [...]
Posted in Our Booming Economy, The American Game on Oct 31st, 2008
I was in one of the local sporting goods stores the night they won the Series, and even though I really couldn’t afford it, I just had to buy a hat and T-shirt. (Total: $26.) But there were people in that store and the one I’d been at a few days before buying HUNDREDS of [...]
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on Oct 31st, 2008
As I said earlier, most of the people making trouble weren’t actual Philadelphians but college students:
“When you get chaos like that, you can’t grab everybody,” said Deputy Commissioner Richard J. Ross Jr., who directed operations from a command post on Spring Garden Street. “You grab the worst of the worst.”
Police said 76 people, a majority [...]
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on Oct 31st, 2008
Could I point out that this crowd of Phillies “fans” who looted this luggage store are all white? Just thought I’d mention that. Wonder how many people would advocate shooting them…
Posted in Recession Depression on Oct 31st, 2008
And in related news:
Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. government should enact an economic stimulus package of between $400 billion and $500 billion before the end of the Bush administration in January, New York University professor Nouriel Roubini said.
Roubini, who predicted the current financial crisis in 2006, said the economy risks falling into “a self-fulfilling [...]
Posted in Recession Depression on Oct 31st, 2008
Nouriel Roubini predicts stagnation/recession plus deflation:
In conclusion, a sharp slack in goods, labor and commodity markets will lead to global deflationary trends over the next year. And the fiscal costs of bailing out borrowers and/or lenders/investors will not be inflationary as central banks will not be willing to incur the high costs of very high [...]
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