Day October 30, 2007

Chris Anderson, The editor of Wired, tired of getting hundreds of unsolicited emails a day from PR firms, has retaliated in a suitably fitting manner. First, he put all their emails in his blocked list. There is no getting off…

How the SWP’s bureaucratic factionalism is wrecking Respect If like me, you have trouble figuring out what’s happening with the Respect/SWP rupture because you don’t know the players and the history, the following explains clearly what happened, then puts the…

Monsooned Malabar is my current favorite coffee. You can buy the green beans from Sweet Marias (then roast your own, which is both much cheaper and better quality than store-bought.) From their review: Monsooned coffees are stored in special warehouses…

From Bill Gross of PIMCO, they manage $726 billion in assets The loose regulation and financial innovation of the past 35 years have spawned what PIMCO’s Paul McCulley has labeled a “shadow banking system” where credit is composed on a…

Call them water wars, with the Great Lakes states hunkering down to protect what they see as theirs. Why would they need to form a water pact to protect their water? Let the always-charming Dick Armey explain. “We’re not going…