Sunday cat blogging

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Sue's cat Bandit snoozes on IRS tax codes

Sue graduates this coming Saturday with a Masters in Taxation. Bandit has already found a good use for IRS tax codes.

My cat Joey guards me as I sleep

Sue says Joey “guards the source” when I’m asleep. He is hugely loyal and sometimes yowls [...]

Cynthia McKinney and the far-right. The red-brown convergence now includes the Greens

On Oct. 3, 2008 we reported that Cynthia McKinney (former Congresswoman from Georgia and Green Party presidential candidate in 2008) got lost in black helicopter land based on her bizarre claim with no proof that 5,000 prisoners were executed by the US in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and dumped in swamps.

Well, she’s gotten [...]

It is so ironic that hipsters would be bashing hipsters

"The woman weeping tears of blood? Oh, that’s a portrait of my mom the last time she saw me."

One of many photos from the ever-snarky LookAtThisFuckingHipster where hipsters upload photos of other hipsters then write sarcastic captions for the photos so they can mock each other. I’m guessing it would be the height [...]

Disney is Evil Movie Review by Sue

A new twist on Disney and their recurring theme of dead mothers and traumatized babies — this time its dead babies and traumatized mothers.

Bob and I saw (part of) the new Disney movie, “Earth”, tonight.

Typical Disney set-up of moms and babies in danger, you just know somebody’s gonna get killed because the music [...]

Alan Abelson: If happy days are here again, why are insiders selling?

If those now infamous shoots of [stock market] recovery are popping up all over, why would insiders be so aggressively dumping stocks?

Yet, they indisputably are. According to a study prepared for Bloomberg by Washington Service, a research outfit, directors, officers and the like have sold $353 million worth of stock in this fading [...]

Swine flu outbreak hits U.S.

A new swine flu with “pandemic potential” is spreading in Mexico, and has reportedly also been sickening those in the United States.

It bears re-posting:

There’s not much you can do about a influenza pandemic except “be prepared.” It is not too late for a pneumonia vaccination, which prevents the most common 23 serotypes of [...]

Smart mobs and Twitter

From the Smart Mobs blog, on the WSJ article about Twitter.

It seems to me that Howard’s [Rheingold's] original insight which he called “smart mobs” is proving to be a fundamental phenomenon of the 21st century. Twittering does the smart mobbing/flocking at a granular level. Figuring it all out is ongoing, as this highlight [...]

The Twitter Book

Tech publisher Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein have just published The Twitter Book, a 240 pg. detailing how best to use Twitter. You can get a PDF or print copy for just $15.99

Ruh roh

U.S. military may send troops to fight drug war in Mexico

It’s Bank Failure Friday again!

Four banks were pronounced DOA today by FDIC.

This includes the pompously yet erroneously named First Bank of Beverly Hills of Calabasas, California which was so terminal that no other bank even wanted what road kill was left of their former assets.

Their name strongly implies they are upscale Beverly Hills yet they had [...]