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Open letter to Congressional Democrats concerning the auto industry

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Dear Congressional Democrats,
I know you’re planning to bailout the Detroit automakers.
Don’t do it.
The Big Three deserve to fail.
Sincerely,
Random Blogger

2008 Vice Presidential Debate: Liveblogging

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Dü-veeeeeep dü-ba-dü-ba-dü-ba-debate!
» Skip down to my conclusion «
8:00pm
Baseball is really good at making me sleepy. Gonna drink an iced coffee so I can stay awake. That’s right. Iced. Coffee. I’m an elitist.
8:10pm
If you’re one of those three people that have internet but no TV, you should be able to catch the debate live on [...]

Dow………n.

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Apparently the market didn’t appreciate it when the House, with 70% of Republicans and 40% of Democrats opposed, rejected the $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill.
Wheeeeeeeeee!

They don’t care about you; Mad Cow testing ban upheld in court

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Here’s the simple breakdown:

Small meatpacker, Creekstone Farms, wants to test its cows for Mad Cow Disease
USDA says Creekstone Farms is not allowed to obtain tests
Creekstone Farms sues USDA
Creekstone Farms loses in Court of appeals.

From the Reuters article:
USDA allows the mad-cow test kits to be sold only to laboratories that it approves. It says the tests [...]

George Will has a great idea(!) about bank bailouts

Monday, June 9th, 2008

We may or may not be in the early stages of a horrible recession. All we really know is that gas is f***ing expensive and banks seem to be falling all around us. But I tell you what, I’ll be damned if bad economic forecasts stop me from eating chocolate and chugging beer.
Anyways, back to [...]

Ticketmaster’s Ticketfast racket

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Yesterday I bought two tickets to a concert from Ticketmaster. The concert is tonight, so I couldn’t wait for them to mail me the tickets, and I didn’t want to bother with will call. So, much to my delight, Ticketmaster offered me the opportunity to print my tickets from an online PDF.
Unfortunately for me, this [...]