I’m not normally one to hate competent public servants for no reason, but I’ve always hated Peter Orszag. He always seemed liked that sort of faux nice guy geek who would ultimately turn out to be the kind of sociopathic douche who would take millions in dollars of pay-off money from an investment bank, pen …
Taste includes both oysters and snails
Spartacus is on TCM!
Dead man’s bluff
The redoubtable Stan Greenberg thinks we really will have a third party candidate of some kind in 2012 but that the candidate won’t do very well: Somebody will run as an independent in 2012. You don’t have 80 percent of voters saying we’re on the wrong track and not have an independent candidate. In 1992, …
Do Randroids dream of robotic sheep?
No, they dream of recessions: Here’s a pretty remarkable interview with independent stock and forex trader Alessio Rastani on the BBC this morning, in which he’s either being perfectly candid about how traders are viewing the Eurozone crisis, or he’s just trolling. Anyway, he’s a sociopath. He says that the euro’s collapse is inevitable and …
Still you’re hoping that she’s well-spoken
It’s a story as old as the internet itself: someone creates a geek-friendly blog, pretends it’s written by an attractive young woman, and soon enough lots of idiots start reading the blog and crushing on the semi-fictional blog author. The fact that this particular faux hot-girl-geek-blogger was a pseduo-intellectual neoconservative (but I repeat myself) makes …
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I could never take the place of your man
John is one AWOL motherfucker these days. Unfortunately, this is one of the busiest weeks of the year for me, so I can’t pick up much slack. Here’s an open thread. I’ll give you a topic to get things rolling: this is the best cover of a Beatles song ever, agree or disagree, even if …
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Not to be too much of an Obot, but I’m happy to have a president who talks this way: “You’ve got a governor whose state is on fire, denying climate change,” he said according to the White House pool report of the event. Texas has been hard hit in recent weeks with a series of …