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

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 […]

“Black Agenda Report Senor Editor Glen Ford will deliver a speech to the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement’s annual Convention (September 27-28, 2008) on the topic “The Truth About Barack Obama”. http://www.inpdum.org/
http://www.blackagendareport.com/

dennis takes no prisoners:
http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-lucky-we-are.html

JIM LEHRER: Good evening. I’m Jim Lehrer.
LEHRER: You may remember me from an earlier age of TV journalism, when we transmitted official lies and propaganda to our educated audience in a very calm, reassuring way. When oil companies weren’t afraid to openly finance our efforts. Well, those days are gone now, lost […]

an awesome interview with Laura D’Agustin, who also has a new blog, where I found this interview. the rest of it is about the panic that surrounds sex work, border crossing, and the rescue industry:
Most people do not arrive penniless, they arrive with their own or borrowed money, even if the amounts don’t seem large […]

problemchylde’s blog led me to kai’s blog where kai said something that sounded good, until i thought about it. (from http://www.kaichang.net/2008/07/kety-on-cnn.html )
“Democratic Party politicians are unlikely to grow a backbone until their constituents do”
i wasn’t clear on what growing a backbone means, for obama’s constituency?
a backbone means asking mccain questions, as if you really care […]

man, i was really disgusted when jackson, whose campaign i worked on back in 1988, rolled over and curtailed crits in order to support obama. now i learn, a little late i know, that he’d like to cut off obama’s nuts for talking down to black folks. ha. yay jesse! yay! personally, i’m glad to […]

the wall st journal lurvs obama’s stance on iraq!

Man of Refinement By JAMES TARANTO Nineteen days ago, we speculated about Barack Obama that he would soon abandon his promise to bring about an American defeat in Iraq:
Could it be that Obama is planning to pivot? That is, what if he goes to Iraq and declares […]

i posted this in a thread at lbo’s discussion list. M liked it, so I’m posting it here in case readers might enjoy:
i’m starting to envision the lanky fellah (obama) on a twister mat, with him contorting himself into all kinds of positions. maybe he’ll get contorted enough to suck his own dick, so everyone […]