September 2008
11 posts
Huge plunger saves economy
Maybe this giant plunger will be able to unlodge billions of American tax dollars for saving failed financial businesses.
Officially an art collector
Lauren bought this print from Crown Point. It’s a Wilson Shieh print. The framing is super nice. She got an awesome deal.
My iphone game partied last night
See?
Nixon politics
Citizen Rat said:
Sup Nixon-Rove politics of resentment, how are you today? If/when Obama loses it’ll be because of this. People will resent the fact that he has succeeded and they have not. Voting for Palin, and they are voting for not McCain but for her, will be a way for them to stick it to those who have succeeded because she’s just as much of a white trash fuck up as they are.
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RIP Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac
The two companies that own or guarantee half of the nations $12 TRILLION dollars worth of Mortgage debt are likely going to be effectively nationalized.
What does this mean? 1) Any shares or bonds with FNM or FRE are going to be next to worthless. 2) The American tax payer is going to eat this. 3) your money market funds are secure.
I don’t really know what should have been done....
Whiskey
I think Jim Beam is the best inexpensive whiskey. This is disappointing.
Liberal Blogosphere in full effect
Jon Stewart Annihilates Sarah Palin's Media...
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Holy Meme
Bus smells
Hot dogs
Dirty clothes
Bad cologne or perfume
General bum smell
Participation
There aren’t many things that get people riled up anymore. The only thing that seems to elicits super-human efforts is the abstract pursuit called our day jobs, second only to some lucky families. There’s a lot of other worthy places to put our toils. Like gardening or supporting Obama.