cassandra_m
"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas." -Shirley Chisholm
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Discuss: The Worst Sportscasters
The merry pranksters over at Lawyers, Guns and Money have up a post discussing the Worst Sportscasters. The list looks too small to me, but I’ll throw in John Madden as my Worst Sportscaster. I’ll stipulate that the guy knows alot about football (and I’ll stipulate that I may be mistaken about this), but he […]
Funding the Holidays with Your Stock Shares
Funny AND depressing — Thanksgiving Dinner: Holiday Gifts: (h/t The Big Picture)
Liveblogging LiberalGeek!
…who is on Delaware Talk Radio with Maria Evans right now. Why aren’t you guys listening to this? Drop your snide comments below. Or — better yet — call in at 888-645-8990 to make your snide comments. We can fight with Dave Burris any day of the week — you can only talk to LG […]
A Modest Proposal
First — read this: Feast of the Wingnuts (How economic crackpots devoured American politics.) This is a great article (teasing Chait’s book on the same subject) from about a year ago — it is sorta long, but stick with it. Here’s some of the intro: American politics has been hijacked by a tiny coterie of […]
Citi Credit
(Via The Big Picture) Since it looks as though Citigroup will be the latest casualty of the Bush Economy in the upcoming week, we might as well get the Making Fun Of part out of the way:
We’re A Center-Left Nation, Now
For the past few weeks, the punditocracy (especially the rightwing ones and their media familiars) have been repeating the very wrong assessment that the US is a center-right nation. Why is it wrong? Because a center-right nation would not elect a center-left President (you know, the one who was supposed to be the most liberal […]
BREAKING: Somali Pirates in Talks to Buy Citigroup
Somali Pirates in Discussions to Acquire Citigroup By Andreas Hippin November 20 (Bloomberg) — The Somali pirates, renegade Somalis known for hijacking ships for ransom in the Gulf of Aden, are negotiating a purchase of Citigroup. The pirates would buy Citigroup with new debt and their existing cash stockpiles, earned most recently from hijacking numerous […]
Top 5 States Transitioning to the New Economy
And Delaware is number 4 on the list — up from a ranking of 7 in 2007. The top 5 according to this report are: Massachusetts, Washington, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey. The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation is the think tank responsible for this effort. As reported by Marketwatch: The State New Economy Index […]
New World Order Follies
(Via Neiwert) Aided and abetted by none other than Ron Paul — who, for at least the run of his Presidential campaign, had successfully re-branded himself as a mainstream libertarian. But now, he is busily expounding on the movement to the always imminent New World Order that will represent some conspiracy by the monied powers […]
Chuck Hagel Taking Names
Wow! On comedian Rush Limbaugh: “We are educated by the great entertainers like Rush Limbaugh,” said Hagel, sarcastically referencing the talk radio host who once called him “Senator Betrayus.” “You know, I wish Rush Limbaugh and others like that would run for office. They have so much to contribute and so much leadership and they […]
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