Wear Clean Draws  (’coz there’s 5 million ways to kill a ceo)

At 11:38 AM 11/6/2008, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
i think it’s the way we fetishize voting and elections in this country,
isn’t it? that voting is actually doing something, and then nothing else is required? it will be interesting to see if they can hold it together. it
would pretty genuinely change american politics if they could, don’t you
think? […]

we had a discussion about whether people of color and others should vote in solidarity with people of color. Julio Huato and John Thornton (NDN) felt that this was important, that people of color and progressive whites support the struggles and wishes of people of color. my responses:
John T wrote: ”
The idea of standing in […]

i’ve about had it listening to parade of people telling me that the reason why prop 8 banning gay marriage passed in california was because gays and lesbians didn’t do enough outreach.
well, excuse me for feeling that, if you think that you deserve equal treatment under the law, then the least you can do is […]

having just come down from a couple long and trying projects, i decided to take a day of my comp time and devote it to a trip to the Shenandoah Valley/Blueridge Mountain Region in Va. I wanted to be there at the peak of the season (peak in terms of the leaves changing color), check […]

i was surfing around and found some blogs by artists, stumbled on a blog called fat angie, and ended up at some livejournal conversation whereupon i read this phrase:
clothing privilege
what. the. fuck. all those who participate in this bullshit these days ought to be summarily sprayed with a walmart-sized warehouse full of silly string or […]

because i have been irritated with otherwise intelligent, well read, keep-up-with-the-news, read -the-Economist-type people lately, i have been surfing around the archives looking for when our lbo discussions of the coming real estate bubble burst started happening.
they can be traced back to the first signs of a bubble in hot real estate markets in california […]

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/87557?utm_source=embedded_video
it’s a onion mockery of obama’s nice guy stance. it’s bullshit redmeat for all the kossacks who want obama to fight mccain and get mean. still, it slayed me.

Many are concerned with the fiscal implications of this bill, so let me turn to that question. Despite the common use of language,
the capital cost of this bill does not involve “taxpayer dollars.”
It authorizes a financial transaction, exchanging good debt (U.S. Treasury bills and bonds) for bad debt (the “troubled assets”). Many of those […]

dog almighty, i’ve had one shitty day. a shitty week. and it’s only tuesday. a woman i work with once said something that had me practically pissing myself in a meeting. as she listened to some news that annoyed, she started to write a note to herself, saying out loud, “Repeat again: It is illegal […]

at lbo, there are frequent discussions of talk therapy vs. drug therapy when it comes to depression, etc. for some reason, the topic sets people off. there is also some strong opposition to freud by those convinced that the only thing that matters is that depression is a chemical disorder. and yet, a couple of […]