Day April 20, 2010

Bill Black on Lehman fraud and failure

Testifying at House FinServ hearing Lehman’s story is a story of fraud, their subprime and liar loans operations. They sold it to the world. Regulatory heads blocked reform. We knew for a decade these were frauds. But DC did nothing.…

Please Fire Me

Please Fire Me details life in cubicle hell. Among the written submissions: Please fire me. The guy in the cube next to me has a liter bottle of Germ-X on his desk, but constantly coughs without covering his mouth. Please…

You’re on the new Polizeros server now

We just moved to cloud servers from our old account at Laughing Squid. Virtually the same price but triple the bandwidth and quadruple the storage. Now we have room to grow. Big thanks to Jamie Holly, the wizard behind the…

Rethinking Afghanistan’s Sticky Icky Quagmire

An honest 420 look at marijuana in Afghanistan. There is definitely a huge drug problem, and our strategy seems to be the cause of it. Our allies that we desperately rely on are all high on drugs, selling drugs, or both. And not only are we paying for it, people are dying because of it.

The U.S. conflict: Who benefits?

DJ on the continuing and escalating internal conflict here in the US, with the two mostly identical parties pretending to fight each other. Two possible answers are not much removed from each other: money and power. Both parties have consistently…