Long Ball

Today’s Day 100, so here’s lots of words and links for you political junkies.  Today I touch on the GOP’s collapse, but focus on the  administration’s banking strategy. Still to come: torture, foreign policy, energy, climate change, and some more party politics.

In his ‘100 Days‘ column, Andrew Sullivan notes:

We have an adult in charge. … [...]

What Condition My Condition Is In

It’s been quiet around here.  Maybe too quiet.  A big part of this is I’m learning web design right now from the ground up, and the time I would spend blogging is going to that, the benefits of which will eventually come back to this blog, but for now the learning curve is keeping me [...]

Pwned

Well today’s been exciting. There are now TWO rival commenters on my Big Fat Serious Post from yesterday, which obviously justifies this blog’s existence, forever, and ever, amen.  But as I was browsing facebook and commenting on a couple of linked items, I realized to my horror that I have become a New Media Douchebag.
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Back in Time, Huey Lewis Style

A month or so back I was all like, “Blogging powers, activated, again” and in the midst of this overzealous delusion, declared a Benjamin Button review was pending. It was not.  But boost up those flux capacitors, because Lost is on tonight that review has aged backwards and is now young/old and attractive enough to [...]

Protected: Real Estates

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Global Warming & Atlas Shrugged

I read Atlas Shrugged curious to see how it would resonate with our current Cashpocalypse, but throughout the book it was global warming that I couldn’t stop thinking about. Applying the realities of climate change to Rand’s story undermines the moral purity of her heroes and opens up all of the gray areas that she [...]

The Office, “Stress Relief”

Before I get to the review, I gotta point this out.  In the scene with the Red Cross training, when Michael reflects on being a quadruple amputee and how he thinks he would prefer to die, that joke is a direct lift from David Brent’s motivational speech in the original UK Office. The US Office [...]

Sexy Capitalist Jesus: Atlas Shrugged Review

Incompetent corporate executives lobby Washington to score major bailouts for failing industries. An unholy tangle of bureaucracy meant to regulate the bailouts bogs down industrial decision-making, leading to increased catastrophic errors and criminal negligence, creating a need for more bailouts, slowly turning the entire country into a broken zombie economy until one day, the infrastructure [...]

Too Meta for Words

This is one of those things that seems inevitable in retrospect.

LOST: “Because You Left” & “The Lie”

Right. So, off the island, it’s Back to the Future, but on the island it’s Back to the Future part II, specifically the part where they time-travel back into the first movie.  Oh, and Daniel Faraday is secretly Scott Bakula from Quantum Leap.  And this show is still great.
The first hour was top shelf, stocked [...]