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Monthly Archives: November 2008
People go for the overpriced liquor
“Lap dancing “is not sexually stimulating”, the chairman of the Lap Dancing Association told a parliamentary committee today…”
For when you should be working
NYC’s most expensive things 10 cars that damaged GM’s reputation 2008 Live Piracy Map A collection of 78 RPM record labels
Now we just call it “hour”
British may ban ‘happy hour’ as drink deaths rise What is the world coming to? I don’t think I want a sober Britian.
Here we come to save the day
Oh shit. Facing an increasingly ominous economic outlook, President-elect Barack Obama and other Democrats are rapidly ratcheting up plans for a massive fiscal stimulus program that could total as much as $700 billion over the next two years. That amount, … Continue reading
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Dibs on Jessica Rabbit
“Japanese launch campaign to marry comic book characters” That’s a real headline. And no, not from The Onion. It’s from a real newspaper. Words fail me. This is why I stopped reading comic books. Like, you know, when I was … Continue reading
Bookie, come hither
I graduated from Texas Tech. I have never bet on a football game in my life. Those two things being said, I so wish I had bet on Oklahoma in last night’s Texas Tech at Oklahoma game. Tech has one … Continue reading
An interesting point about about bailouts…
…that I heard today: How can a company be “too big to fail”, but not big enough to be taken on under U.S. antitrust law?
At what price fishwrap?
P. J. O’Rourke wants the government to bail out newspapers as well. he’s being sarcastic and it’s funny.
I hate business cards
Business cards are normally so damned boring and unimaginitive. I understand that sometimes that is on purpose. Nobody wants to see a gynecologist’s business cards with cute cartoony drawings of the doctor’s area of expertise. That being said, it’s nice … Continue reading
The only way to fly
When the CEOs of GM, Chrysler and Ford went to Washington to beg for taxpayer’s money, how did they get there? Why private jets of course. [Of course, my company sells jet fuel so fly away boys!]