Weird Al Yankovic – Stop Forwarding That Crap To Me

Truly inspired.

William Kristol: Republican debate sounded like crazy people

Kristol is a leading neocon, editor of the Weekly standard and his father Irving was one of the founders of neoconservatism. So his comments on last night’s Republican debate ares rather surprising.

The e-mails flooding into our inbox during the evening were less guarded. Early on, we received this missive from a bright young conservative: [...]

Combined Award. Mugshot of the Day and Deep Stupidity

LA Times

Three Covina men are behind bars after they allegedly stole a 30-pack of Tecate beer from a market and attempted to escape but crashed a car and hit an employee who chased them, then one ran through a car wash and another left behind his ID.

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Solyndra executives getting slammed in hearing

Live on C-Span. Solyndra executives plead to fifth, refuse to testify. this is their right but obviously looks terrible.

A $75 million loan was made senior to a federal loan. This is not only appalling but some congressmen think this could have been illegal. Several congressmen are also seriously pissed because Solyndra execs told them [...]

Eurozone financial crisis

It’s getting grim out there.

PIMCO CEO Mohamed El-Erian says many institutions have “sharply reduced short-term lending to French banks” and we could be seeing “an institutional run on French banks.” Further, there are two connected problems, sovereign debt and insolvent banks.

It’s gangrene, not contagion (emphasis added)

What we have is gangrene. Doctors with [...]

George Jones. If Drinking Don’t Kill Me. 1982

Amazing performance. And wait for the final lyric.

There must be 50 ways to leave the military industrial complex

David Swanson reports back from the Military Industrial Complex at 50 conference with quotes, links to videos, and more.

Admiral Mullen: Pakistan ISI behind terrorist attacks

Admiral Mike Mullen, who steps down this month as chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, made his accusation before a U.S. Senate panel.

The ISI is a force unto itself and isn’t particularily beholden to the Pakistan government. Mullen is simply saying what many have known for years.

So why is the [...]

Stock markets in US and Europe getting clobbered

Everyone knows Greece will default. And everyone knows BofA is on its last legs.

But no one really knows where the risk is with their trading partners. For example, banks routinely loan each other money overnight. But now they’re getting nervous about the health of those they loan to. Ditto for credit default swaps, which [...]

Should be satire, isn’t.

HP to name Meg Whitman as CEO today.

One of the oldest and most respected names in computing continues its downward death spiral.