No time to do proper blog entries; no time or brain-energy to fix my broken blogs and websites. Booo. Time to just do quick links using the tabs I’ve got open in Firefox at the moment. Here we go:
- Fire Jim Bowden laments what a poor job ownership of the Washington Nationals is doing. It has been pretty much a disaster of a season. I don’t expect playoff contention, but the team has mostly been a farce this year. Terribly disappointing, as I was hoping to use baseball as my fun distraction during TLG’s first few weeks and months. A team this bad is not really fun.
- Awhile back I linked to a youtube of John Legend singing “Pride – In the Name of Love” and wished I could get the audio somewhere. It’s finally been released on a cd. A Barack Obama fundraiser cd no less!
- In Lipstick on a Wingnut, Katha Pollitt explains some of the many, many things that should frighten any thinking person about Sarah Palin being able to even glimpse the White House from her house.
It takes chutzpah for a mother to thrust her pregnant teen into the world’s harshest spotlight and then demand the world respect the girl’s privacy. But then it takes chutzpah to support criminalizing abortion and then praise Bristol’s “decision” to have the baby. The right to decide, and privacy, after all, are two of the things Palin wants to deny every other woman, and every other family, in America.
And her hypocrisy on women’s fundamental rights as human beings is only the beginning.
- Balloon Juice with a fine rant on this bailout craziness:
In other words, folks spent years making billions upon billions of dollars on risky transactions, more money on the stock of companies that was artificially high based on those transactions, more money bundling all those transactions into more transactions, and made a killing, and when it turns out the whole thing is a big pile of shit, you and I get the god damned bill.
I do not ever want to hear another damned word about the free market. I don’t want to hear another thing about letting the market regulate itself. I don’t want to hear about the free flow of capital. I don’t want to hear about government getting out of our lives.
None of it. From superfunds to super-bailouts, I am tired of other people getting rich being irresponsible and then being told I have to pay to clean it up.
Ok – I didn’t get through many open tabs today. Perhaps more tomorrow.
