Daily Archives: November 23, 2008

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

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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

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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?

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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.

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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

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