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The Onion FTW on the bailout:

“Congress really let the American people down, or really stood up for them. Honest to god, I got no fuckin’ clue anymore.”

Somehow I got this song stuck in my head this morning, so I had to find it and give it a listen.

Politico reports on a ‘recoupment’ provision sought by the Blue Dogs

The Blue Dogs, a group of conservative House Democrats, want Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) to include a “recoupment” provision in the Wall Street bailout package.
In a letter that will be sent to Pelosi and Boehner, the Blue Dogs, [...]

I saw Trouble the Water tonight — excellent, deeply moving film. I think the tag line sums it up nicely –

It’s not about a hurricane… it’s about America

I mean just damn, what more can be said? Katrina showed us our worst and our best all at once, and they’ve captured it masterfully in this documentary [...]

Last night brought nearly three hours of Henry Rollins doing his uproariously funny spoken-word gig last night. I’d seen the Rollins Band play many moons ago (Lollapalooza ‘91, back when the ass-kicking What Am I Doing Here was on my shortlist of favorites), but never had the chance to see him do his spoken word [...]

March 2007:

WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Senator Barack Obama today sent a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Paulson urging them to immediately convene a homeownership preservation summit with key stakeholders to fight foreclosures driven by growth in the subprime mortgage market.
The text of the letter is below:
Dear Chairman Bernanke and Secretary Paulson,
There [...]

I’ve been hearing a lot of pundits describe the economic meltdown using phrases like “Judgement Day for conservative economics” and such (granted, I don’t watch Fox). Which is fun to say, but I don’t think it’s entirely fair. First of all statements like this are far too broad, “conservative economics” encompases a lot of things, [...]

McCain’s Economic Plan

Soooo…. yeah, sorry I missed the party at the saucer tonight. There was at least one person I’m sorta curious about meeting, but there was also one person I really didn’t want to run into, which I guess might have have washed out in the balance.. but then at least three or four of the [...]

If you’re like 99.5% of the country, you probably haven’t kept up with the circus sideshow that is the Libertarian Party campaign this year. But it actually has been entertaining in a “can’t not watch the trainwreck” sort of way.
To recap it for the rest of you — well most of you know about [...]