Commercial Paper
The overwhelming feeling I have gotten from most news coverage of the financial/credit crisis is that we could potentially see credit as you and I know it disappear. If people can't buy cars, houses...
View ArticleThe Price of Really Caring
So this latest 'compromise' on the Auto bailout has me wondering: why the hell are these people so pathetic? For years I have figured Democrats -- especially (but not exclusively) of the Senatorial...
View ArticleLieberman the Oversight Man
Senator Lieberman (I-CT (don't blame me, I voted for Lamont)) was on the Floor of the Senate moments ago, speaking in favor of the stimulus bill. You would think I'd be glad to be reminded that Joe...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to David Waldman
The following is an open letter to David, in the hopes that it will encourage him and the community to figure out how to support our presence in the mainstream of American political conversation. I am...
View ArticleAction: Mr Gregory Goes to Washington (And Maybe Daily Kos Goes With Him)
I was watching David Gregory on MTP this morning, and I started thinking about why we disagree so strongly with him regarding the truth of the game he appears to be playing -- giving softball...
View ArticleWhy Should We Pull Out of Our Former Provinces?
Because only empires try to hold on to their old client states. Humble little nations do not act the way we are acting in these countries. It is awful what will happen there when we leave. But at some...
View ArticleOn Apathy
I am beyond apathetic about this entire game we're playing.I came into Spring '09 ready to read every single thing I could find on health care reform. I was so totally excited to have a whole huge (and...
View ArticleWho Matters More? You Or The State?
Which is more important? You, or the state?You can be assassinated without due process. Wiretappedwithout warrant. Tortured in secret without the right to seek justice. Imprisoned for...
View ArticlePortlandia
PDX Metro is a gathering place for Kossacks who live here and those who just love it here. We're a diverse and undefinable bunch (or at least I hope we are, once I get this group populated). This is a...
View ArticleRepublishing!
I don't know how much of this whole "Groups" thing makes sense to any of you, but I want the members of this group to understand one thing: we love to republish!Basically, there are two ways for...
View ArticleWorking Diary: PDX Trades
I want to talk about a very simple idea: resources. We all have excess and deficit. So we should trade. I'm good with technology but terrible at dancing (and I need to learn before August). I probably...
View ArticleShock Therapy in Wisconsin
Wisconsin showed up tonight on the Shock Doctrine radar. While everyone is in a panic about collective bargaining rights, the state is being prepped for sale to... wait for it... Koch Industries!Also...
View Articlewhy i defected to apple
before elementary school, DOS was running in our house. our soundblaster sound card came with a talking parrot demo that let you test out the microphone. the most intense graphics were a black and...
View ArticleRight Now
Maybe he's staring at the ceiling. We haven't heard anything about his glasses, so I assume he has those at night. In January, they took them away for a few nights (but left him with his underwear......
View ArticleAlan Simpson's Appointment Wasn't A Mistake
And the President isn't going to apologize for it, nor will he repudiate the zombie lies that Mr Simpson continues to spew.A quick look at the other Presidential appointments to his commission shows...
View ArticleWhy we're failing in Afghanistan
This:The State Department and USAID now spend about $320 million a month in Afghanistan, for a total of $18.8 billion over the course of the war so far. That makes Afghanistan the single largest...
View ArticleWar Powers Resolution: The Text
Found in Title 50, Chapter 33 of the US Code. Thanks to the Legal Information Institute at Cornell.§ 1541. Purpose and policy(a) Congressional declaration It is the purpose of this chapter to fulfill...
View ArticleWhy the Cuban Embargo?
How dare you, ninety miles from my country, last forty five years, with a different form of governmentHow dare you haven’t allowed American corporations to buy you out.How dare you continue this...
View ArticleBranding a Smaller Business.
I've promised myself to write something in this space every third day, both to force myself to write and to force myself to have something to write.Tonight, I'm working on branding my smaller business....
View ArticleDemocrats Propose Screwing Grad Students
Senator Reid's Debt Ceiling Bill sure makes for some interesting reading. In a proposal full of plans to have someone else slash the budget later, this beautiful nugget certainly stands out:a graduate...
View ArticleWhat Didn't The President Like?
Now, is this the deal I would have preferred? No. I believe that we could have made the tough choices required -- on entitlement reform and tax reform -- right now, rather than through a special...
View ArticleTesting. 1-2-3. Testing.
This is a test of the Shock Doctrine Alert System. If this had been an actual Shock Doctrine event, you would not be reading this.The Police Department’s concerns came up against a perhaps milder...
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Meet Adrian Schoolcraft. Meet the Real NYPD.
Looking at this photo, one starts to wonder if there are any good people in the NYPD.There are.This is what happens when they stop staring like fools and instead say No.Adrian Schoolcraft says he isn't...
View ArticleWonder What It Looks Like When Journalists Let the Powerful Massage Quotes?
In July, we learned from the New York Times that campaign and government stenographers have accepted the practice of manipulating quotes on behalf of Important People. Specifically, an official gives...
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