BlogBites

March 31st, 2009

The so-called bank walkaways rarely mean relief for the property owners, caught unaware months after the fact, and often mean additional financial burdens and bureaucratic headaches. In Homeowners’ Latest Woe, Banks Are Skipping Foreclosures - NYTimes.com  

Perhaps it ought to be rephrased: science provides one way to understand the world, while religion provides millions of ways to misunderstand it. Pharyngula: Mixed messages from the NAS  

A stench straight from Satans anal ring, but a taste from an angels sugared nipple. Twitter / stephenfry  

March 30th, 2009

Time is running out to stop the stupid Off-Balance-Sheet - Now CREDIT CARDS - The Market Ticker  

Anything that is too big to fail is too big to exist. The Atlantic Online | May 2009 | The Quiet Coup | Simon Johnson  

I’m not sure you can research “tribes” from your Aeron chair at Deloitte. Twitter / John Proffitt: @robpatrob Yeah. I’m not s …  

March 29th, 2009

…there’s a difference between oral sex and oral hygiene. Please, choose responsibly. New York - “Off With Those Pants”: Bill O’Reilly Seduces You in Clips From His Dirty Audiobook - Runnin’ Scared - Village Voice  

March 28th, 2009

Have I mentioned “fuck them”? Have I? I only ask because fuck them. Scenes From A Recession « The Poor Man Institute  

March 27th, 2009

I wanna see Ira Glass and Joss Whedon fight. With knives. On a bridge. Twitter / mariancall: @Tabz I wanna see Ira Glas …  

March 26th, 2009

When you take home bonuses from our money, when you get our bailouts and have your lobster luncheons or your strippers and coke parties at the Mirage, we’ll be there with our torches and our fucking pitchforks. A Letter to Wall Street  

I think one day we’ll all wake up to find out that the security industry has just been rehashes of Talking Heads songs all along and that nobody has had an original idea since 1982. Subversive Music | The Guerilla CISO  

The current financial crisis is the best opportunity we have had in a very long time for a bloodless revolution against the faceless fascism under which we have been living, unaware, for much too long. LET IT DIE: Rushkoff on the economy | ARTHUR MAGAZINE - WE FOUND THE OTHERS  

What we’re now living through, though, is the result of a conscious, planned looting of the world economy. Fluke? Credit crisis was a heist - MSN Money - Jubak’s Journal  

Well that’s why they call it the heartland, as opposed to say, the brainland. Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Oklahoma Legislators Investigating Dawkins Appearance?  

March 25th, 2009

The fact remains, Obama is popular, Republicans are not, and everyone hates the media. Whiskey Fire: Political Note