Thomas Friedman, the ordained simplifier of global complexities, and in my opinion, over-stater of the obvious, wrote this today,
“Let’s today step out of the normal boundaries of analysis of our economic crisis and ask a radical question: What if the crisis of 2008 represents something much more fundamental than a deep recession? What if it’s [...]
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I like maps, here’s an interesting one from the NY Times.
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Friday, February 13, 2009
After drinking enough PBR last night to kill an average Westminster it’s-got-fuckin’-papers-you-can’t-board-it show dog, I drifted off into a restless, sub-optimal slumber. Chalk it up to the toxic PBR hopcoction, I had a pretty vivid nightmare about being on a tarmac near a jet airplane with an engine fire. In my dream I was running [...]
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Let me first say that those who we now know as the infamous Wall Street scum cabal, your Dick Fulds and John Thains are not as devious as we’d like to think they are. Certainly they are not good men, but they’re not terrorists either. Consider the case of Bill Clinton circa 1998. While his [...]
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Ok, so yes, my last post about Paul Bart: Mall Cop ( the capstone to Kevin James deplorable career) was a joke. It’s sad but completely expected when such a cellulose travesty happens and triumphs at the box office. No matter, there is a really bizarre story in the news today about two people who [...]
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
You have probably read a thing or two about the impending doom stirring at the gates of the traditional print media companies. The NY Times, for one, is in financial straits and quickly (desperately, from the looks of it, I might add) trying to scramble it’s business model to work in the age of micro [...]
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Thursday, January 8, 2009
Impoverished motorcycle taxi drivers in Nigeria have taken to wearing dried pumpkin helmets in place of the real thing according to this BBC story. It’s kind of funny in an Austin Powers meat helmet sort of way, but mostly sad.
“Motorcyclists in Nigeria have been wearing dried pumpkin shells on their heads to dodge a new [...]
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Friday, December 19, 2008
Protests in china over cats on the menu
““Cats have a strong flavor. Dogs taste
much better.”
Baby’s tumor contained foot
“A pediatric neurosurgeon says a tumor he removed from the brain of a Colorado Springs infant contained a tiny foot and other partially formed body parts.”
Rebel shark jumps onto water slide
“At the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas, there’s [...]
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
“A leading Russian political analyst has said the economic turmoil in the United States has confirmed his long-held view that the country is heading for collapse, and will divide into separate parts.”Read the full post on Drudge Report.
Medium Happiness staff apparatchik Scott hipped me to this interesting piece that was penned, undoubtedly in a toxic [...]
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Don’t these fools know they’re a joke? It’s the same lack of self-awareness for which the jab holes on fox News are known.
Update: Sorry I couldn’t resist
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