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Ali V. Federal Prisons Bureau
Let Us All Bow Our Heads, And Pretend to Be Serious
First off, Happy Birthday to the Lego block which is 50 years old today! From simple multi-colored blocks to complex vehicular madness, and even starring in its own highly amusing video game (Lego Star Wars), they've come a long way for a load of plastic Danish stacking things. That said, on ( Read more... ) -
From the Tubes (Not Trucks)
Today my love of colorful charts and my hatred for the Bush Administration's tendency to be about as straight as a Slinky have met in a happy-fun nexus. What has brought about this overlap in my Venn Diagram? The Center for Public Integrity has created The War Card, a detailed account of 935 false statements made by the Bush Administration in the ( Read more... ) -
Gimme Some Money
Pressure Drop
Yesterday, the FED cut interest rates by three-quarters of a point. To give you an idea of how big this is, the last time the FED made a cut in interest rates this big in one day was 1984, and the last time they made an "emergency rate cut" was September 17th, 2001, the first day the US markets were open after...what Mr. Giuliani? "9 ( Read more... ) -
Primary (And Secondary) Confusion - Part 4
Primary Vs. Caucus: Smackdown
Choosing delegates is like kung-fu. It doesn't really matter which style you favor. Ultimately, someone's going to get their ass kicked. It's just a question of how. With that, let's get into it.
Breaking this down to the real details would fill books, and I have no doubt it does. Since these things are run by ( Read more... ) -
Primary (And Secondary) Confusion - Part 3
Why Romney Might Drop Out But Edwards Probably Won't
So far, both are still in the picture, even though no one in the press is talking all that much about Edwards. Despite finishing second in both Iowa and New Hampshire, Romney is out in front of the GOP standings thanks to the win in Wyoming. It's hard to say right now what his chances are ( Read more... ) -
Billy Bragg - Waiting For the Great Leap Forward
It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline
But on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline
Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying
Over luxury's disappointment
So he walks over and he's trying
To sympathize with her but thinks that he should warn her
That the Third World is just around the corner
In the Soviet Union a ( Read more... ) -
Primary (And Secondary) Confusion - Part 2
First let me apologize for these lengthy posts with no cuts. Doing this through livejournal's web interface and I can't remember the html code for cuts nor does the rich text editor offer them as an option.
Before I get to the Republicans, I want to make two corrections to what I said yesterday and submit one more bit of information. First, it ( Read more... ) -
Primary (And Secondary) Confusion
INTRO
The Calm Before the Storm
First off, I want to say that as much as I enjoy the whole election season, I remember a time when people didn’t start running for the primaries until January. Instead, this whole thing kicked off around February of last year. What followed was so much fiddling about, wasting time and money. No real policies were ( Read more... ) -
Death and Taxes
Yesterday, while driving in to work I heard over NPR about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. For those who don’t know, she was the former Pakistani Prime Mnister and leader of the People’s Party of Pakistan. Her father was Zulfikir Ali Bhutto, the first popularly elected leader of Pakistan who was ousted in a military coup in 1977, and ( Read more... ) -
IT'S ALIVE!
Greetings fellow philosopher kings and queens. No! I am not a ghost of the departed come from the grave to tell stories of the other side. No! I am not Zombie Dave, here to feast upon the sweet head-meats that lie within your oh-so-crackable skulls. I'm the same Dave you've known, and possibly even loved. Dave the overworked and underpaid ( Read more... )