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Saturday, December 6, 2008
Friday, December 5, 2008
The Auto Industry as a Play
From John Cole's Balloon Juice:
THE TRAGEDY OF THE AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY:A Play in Three Acts
Dramatis Personae
BIG THREE, a manufacturer of automobiles
UAW, Big Three’s employee
MITT ROMNEY, an idiot
ACT ONE
BIG THREE: I have plans to build automobiles, but I need labor to do so!
UAW: I will labor for you if you will pay me $40 per hour.
BIG THREE: I will not pay you $40 per hour.
UAW: But I need to save for my inevitible retirement, and any health concerns that may arise.
BIG THREE: I will pay you $30 per hour, plus a generous pension of guaranteed payments and health care upon your retirement.
UAW: Then I agree to work for you!
ACT TWO
UAW: I am building cars for you, as I have promised to do!
BIG THREE: I am designing terrible cars that few people want to buy! Also, rather than save for UAW’s inevitible retirement when I will have to pay him the generous pension of guaranteed payments and health care that I promised, I am spending that money under the dubious assumption that my future revenues will be sufficient to meet those obligations.
ACT THREE
UAW: I have fulfilled my end of the deal by building the automobiles that you have asked me to build.
BIG THREE: Oh no! I am undone! My automobiles are no longer competitive due to my years of poor planning and poor judgment!
MITT ROMNEY: This is all UAW’s fault!
The Problem with the Mainstream Media
David Ehrenstein presents a compelling case against the use of anonymous sources. Definitely worth the read.
Cheney's Toy
Sorry to bump the baby thread. I saw James McMurtry last night and wanted to drop some of his more recent stuff here.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Rylie Addison Michael
Weighing in at 10 pounds and 8 ounces. 21 inches long.
Fellas,
She had a rough start (long story) and is in the special care unit but is handling everything that planet earth has thrown at her. She's doing much better but is not out of the woods quite yet. I'm sorry if I can't answer the phone much right now but its been really busy.
Don't worry about all the wires. Thats the ehart monitor and breathing monitor which are looking real good. Just routine stuff. She does have an IV hooked up in her hands for antibiotics and glucose and thats what you see in the pictures. Its really fairly routine stuff. I'll get more info out soon.
When The Smashing Pumpkins ruled the world...
where boys fear to tread...
X.Y.U. ...
*Note: at 5 min in on X.Y.U., the Pumpkins remind you that they were once capable of purely evil rock and fucking roll.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Fandom Reinstated
I am officially retracting my previous post because TREVOR IS A BABY DADDY!!!!!! Coming in at just over 10 freaking pounds, Riley Addison "Stella Eugena" Michael!!!
Monday, December 1, 2008
I quit
After that piss poor performance on Saturday, I hereby resign my fandom of the University of South Carolina football team. This will be effective immediately and will continue either until the bowl game or until Trevor is a baby daddy, whichever comes first. Thank you.
Contact juggling
Watched Labyrinth the other night - ya know - the one with Bowie - and it sucked dog balls. Not nearly as bad-ass as I remember it. The contact juggling was cool though.
Air-Force Intelligence Officer Who Helped Locate Zarqawi Discusses American Interrogation Practices
I refused to participate in such practices, and a month later, I extended that prohibition to the team of interrogators I was assigned to lead. I taught the members of my unit a new methodology -- one based on building rapport with suspects, showing cultural understanding and using good old-fashioned brainpower to tease out information. I personally conducted more than 300 interrogations, and I supervised more than 1,000. The methods my team used are not classified (they're listed in the unclassified Field Manual), but the way we used them was, I like to think, unique. We got to know our enemies, we learned to negotiate with them, and we adapted criminal investigative techniques to our work (something that the Field Manual permits, under the concept of "ruses and trickery"). It worked. Our efforts started a chain of successes that ultimately led to Zarqawi.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
The ‘Good War’ Isn’t Worth Fighting
Former British Foreign Service Officer Rory Stewart discusses the Afghan problem.
I can't stand looking at that dude below this post when I load the blog page, but I don't want to delete the post.
Here are some other random images from my photobucket account that I totally forgot about until I needed to see something other than them devil eyes:
Rock and roll:
Total bad-asses:
The road to Sucksville:
I wish we partied like this:
Wash thine filthy hands:
Awww... Wait why the hell is this in my photobucket? Dad or no dad - you're freaking me out Trevor.
Well done, sir, well fucking done:
Represent:
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
The Devil
Sorry, but I had to post this, 'cause this guy is one of the creepiest motherfuckers I've ever seen in my life. Yeah, and so for some reason, I felt like he needed to haunt all of your dreams as well. Christ! Dig the look in his eyes!!
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
One last trip to hell...
Fuck Jimmy Kimmel, but this new one, G.L.O.W., kicks ass. Turn up the bass if you can, and make sure the whole thing is loud as shit. Witness the Pumpkins rock once again...
Robot Chicken's Star Wars, Episode II
Don't be fooled by the title - this doesn't have anything to do with that ass-fest Attack of the Clones.
Should the government bailout the American Auto Industry?
Jonathan Cohn of The New Republic makes the case for a conditional bailout. A quick and informative read, exploring the (un)likelihood of recovery under a Chapter 11 scenario and the alternatives.
Update: 6 Myths About the Detroit 3 from the Detriot Free Press.
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