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live music, circus, july 15th
Showtime 9 pm. Rustmoth plays first. Will be loud... -
band update: friday 26 june
Rustmoth live at Ruby Tuesday's with Love Culture, The Soul Slingers, and a solo set by Tim Gross.
Showtime 10 pm. The perfect way to wind down after Comfest by having your hearing violently assaulted by surf punks. -
for those not following ted's lj
Video of Rustmoth's debut gig here:
http://www.youtube.com/rustmoth
Special thanks to Jason Pohlod for filming and editing this; he helped with loadin and loadout as well, completely unasked, and I think all he got out of it was a burger. -
republonomics -- fourth in a series
Bobby Jindal: "[T]heir legislation is larded with wasteful spending... includ[ing]...$140 million for something called 'volcano monitoring.'"
Who're this gibbering Muppet's speechwriters? They're dumb enough to be hunted for meat. Do they really think that people are going to hear this line and say "Oooh, yeah, ignore those volcanos and they won' ( Read more... ) -
republonomics -- third in a series
My brother's a (very much Chicago-school) economist. I used to get in arguments with him along the lines of him accusing me of "not believing in the free market." My rejoinder was always something along the lines of "Sure I do. I believe in combustion, too, but I call 911 if my house is on fire."
The "invisible hand" isn't a God damned ( Read more... ) -
republonomics: second in a series
Immigration, weakened labor laws, regressive tax rates, and offshoring jobs all have no effect on American income. The best way to raise American incomes is for American workers to become more skilled.
This is best accomplished by gutting K-12 spending and financial aid for higher education. -
republonomics: first in a series
Slight increases in the minimum wage cause devastating rises in unemployment.
Nine-digit executive salaries don't hurt anyone. -
hibernations - i doing it wrong
Every once in a while, when I mutter about leaving Columbus in favor of someplace that's warm year round, some anencephalic meat chunk within earshot will say, "But wouldn't you miss the changing of the seasons?"
Well, this year I did miss the changing of the seasons. Because I got sick for five days. Essentially I went to sleep on Wednesday ( Read more... ) -
everyone send taibbi a dollar
I don't think there's a Nobel Prize for bitch slaps.
Yet.
M.T.: In point of fact I'm talking about the 262-page amendment Gramm tacked on to that bill that deregulated the trade of credit default swaps.
Tick tick tick. Hilarious sitting here while you frantically search the Internet to learn about the cause of the financial crisis - in the middle ( Read more... )
