November 2008
73 posts
"Local Retailers say economy did not hurt Black...
Why does this not surprise me? If there’s one thing us Americans are good at, it’s buying stuff, against all odds.
What I would like to see, and I bet it would be a scary stat - how much of this year’s holiday purchases were charged to credit cards, and how many people paid cash.
I have this creeping suspicion that credit cards are the next mortgages…too much easy money...
Please install Disqus for comments on your...
Everyone needs to have Disqus installed so people can comment on your Tumblogs without having to reblog you. So many times I want to respond to somebody personally, but either don’t want to clutter my page with a super long chain of reblogs, or maybe have something to say that I don’t want on everyone’s Dashboard. So lots of people don’t get a response, or maybe only an...
“Get out of your head - it’s really nice out here.”
– Rachel Jenson (Forgetting Sarah Marshall)
“Management is always an exercise in battling entropy. Order tends to disorder...”
WatchAkon calls T-Pain.
An absolutely hilarious mockery of the two most vocoded voices in music.
“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s...”
– My Sisters Keeper - Jodi Picoult (No, I have not read the book. Good quote though.)
“I’m a Republican because I didn’t want to grow up poor waiting for...”
– Mike Huckabee
“Mathematically speaking, “Napoleon Dynamite” is a very significant problem for...”
– The Screens Issue - If You Liked This, Sure to Love That - Winning the Netflix Prize (via jratlee) (via slantback) (via kevintwohy) (via mikehudack) (via josephweisenthal)
Somali Pirates in Discussions to Acquire Citigroup...
Somali Pirates in Discussions to Acquire Citigroup By Andreas Hippin
November 20 (Bloomberg) — The Somali Pirates, renegade Somalis known for hijacking ships for ransom in the Gulf of Aden, are negotiating a purchase of Citigroup.
The pirates would buy Citigroup with new debt and their existing cash stockpiles, earned most recently from hijacking numerous ships, including most recently a...
Back from the dead and competing in the Ironman →
“His organs had been knocked sideways; his shoulder, pelvis and ribs were broken; and more than half the blood in his body was lost. He spent two months in a medically induced coma at Prince George’s Hospital Center, was revived from death eight or nine times, lost 100 pounds and endured 14 surgeries, 36 blood transfusions and being told he would probably spend the rest of his...
Obama Hears a Giant Sucking Sound →
shorterexcerpts:
That 99 trillion was figured by the same asshats that called the Laffer Curve and Reaganomics airtight and sound economics…
Are you really attempting the argument that the general principals behind “Reaganomics” (I hate that term) - small government, lower taxes, and low inflation - are not sound economic policy? I have yet to hear anyone argue that way...
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Sunchips Living Up to Their Name →
Sunchips are:
Absolutely delicious.
Now made with solar energy. Hit the link for some background from the company.
Credit to dihard for this one.
Obama Hears a Giant Sucking Sound →
josephweisenthal:
“That Mr. Obama had been sent by history to assuage the insecurities of the middle class with a “New” New Deal was always a tad detached from reality anyway. The reason is those giant legacies of existing New Dealism known as Social Security and Medicare, about which he was careful to say nothing intelligible during the campaign. These programs worked for a while too, but now...
Imagine
dihard:
Prior to the early 90s, deodorant came boxed. The plastic deodorant stick was packaged in a paperboard box. In The Wal-Mart Effect, Charles Fishman describes how in the early 1990s, Wal-Mart decided the box was a waste. It wasted cardboard, took up shelf space, increased shipping expenses, and was unnecessary since the plastic deodorant package was more durable than the box. So Wal-Mart...
Let Detroit Go Bankrupt - Mitt Romney →
Have I mentioned lately how much I love Mitt Romney? From his article in the NYT:
“That extra burden (pensions, benefits) is estimated to be more than $2,000 per car. Think what that means: Ford, for example, needs to cut $2,000 worth of features and quality out of its Taurus to compete with Toyota’s Avalon. Of course the Avalon feels like a better product — it has $2,000 more put into...
Morality by Legislation
Jeff Miller makes an excellent point - keeping prices high and inefficient companies in business is bad for the economy and unfair to taxpayers.
jeffmiller:
Consider this:
Prices for the flat screens in televisions, personal computers and cellphones have plummeted in recent years — but the decline would have been even faster if it hadn’t been for an international price-fixing cartel, the...
“This homeless guy asked me for money the other day, and I thought,...”
You Always Hertz the One You Love (Overheard in...
Thug on cell: Yo, hearse rent a car? Yo man, I need to rent a hearse. Yeah, I'll hold. (pause) Y'all don't rent no hearses? Why y'all call yoselfs hearse rent a car? (pause) Word? Well, I need to move a body, maybe you got a van or something? (pause) I don't care, I just need to move his dead ass. (pause) Cargo van? Whatever. Yeah.
Thug's friend: Ask if they got am'blances.
John Mayer’s version of Tom Petty’s...
i have a dilemma
ohtrouble:
ktroseknows:
i’m getting a new phone on friday and i have no idea which one to get. its between the blackberry curve and the env2. help?
..or maybe the blackberry pearl.
gah!
Env2. I got it last weekend and I heart it big time.
Wait another week and go for the Blackberry Storm, RIM’s new iPhone killer.
PandoraJam →
Brings Pandora to your Mac desktop - no need to have a browser open. Also can record the songs Pandora plays, automatically tagging them with metadata and album art, then adding them to your iTunes library. Awesome.
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A GM/Ford/Chrysler bankruptcy is not as big a deal...
Washingtonpost.com:
A GM bankruptcy would reverberate through the U.S. economy, GM supporters contend. One in 10 American jobs is related to auto manufacturing. Automakers are the biggest buyers of U.S.-manufactured steel, aluminum, iron, copper, plastics, rubber and electronics. Tens of thousands of suppliers and dealers depend on the automakers.
All of these doomsday scenarios are total...
Will Obama put his daughters where his policy is? →
dearworld:
billda:
After making so much noise during the election about education and vouchers - will Obama send his daughters to public school? It seems not…
(via muppetpants)
We need to fix public schools, not just find a way to get some kids out of them. Fixing these schools is going to take time, and most Americans aren’t willing to wait for results. Obama knows vouchers are just a...
Scrubs season eight - An early look - TV Squad →
My favorite show of all time is back. Thank you ABC. (via craytonc)
“Detroit has been dying for decades. It doesn’t need a bailout. It needs a...”
Will Obama put his daughters where his policy is? →
After making so much noise during the election about education and vouchers - will Obama send his daughters to public school? It seems not…
(via muppetpants)
Don't Bail Out the Auto Industry - It Won't Work
Obama is pushing for a $50 billion dollar bailout for the auto industry - it’s a mistake.
Many people have said they are in favor of an auto industry bailout, if Ford/GM/Chrysler promise to put the money toward developing electric/high mileage/green/small cars or retraining workers, or any number of other initiatives to change the industry.
You’re missing the point of the bailout....