On capitol hill right now, there's talk about creating a "consumer financial protection agency," ostensibly to make sure that the people have a place to contact whenever their bank or their credit card company is trying to screw them over. However, if you've been following the health care debate at all, you can probably tell where this is going. ( Read more... )

( Because this tagline could use some more self-hating animu fan in it. )

I have a sore throat. This does not make me happy, especially since there is a nagging feeling at the back of my mind that either the bug that smacked me over this weekend was a 24-hour cold, or somehow my brain overexaggerated it. Even if this sore throat does turn into something worse, I don't think my colleagues will let me continue playing the ( Read more... )

I may or may not have mentioned this before, but one of the classes I decided to take with the space I currently have is a one-credit elective HPER class, or basically a PE class in college. Previously, I've done Aikido and BJJ as electives. This semester, I decided to give basketball a shot. Yes, the good ol' American game of basketball. It ( Read more... )

Obama can now check another item off his presidential "to do" list: enter negotiations about the Israel-Palestine peace process, then realize no matter what he probably won't get anything more than baby steps forward followed by manly steps back.

In private, one-on-one discussions, Obama chided Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and ( Read more... )

Are they serious?

Are they fucking serious?

When I saw this in The Exiled, I thought "nah, Mark Ames is being hyperbolic, there's no way anyone could be that evil." But then I see the headline in the NY Times: Wall Street Pursues Profit in Bundles of Life Insurance.You know that shit they did with the hedge funds and the "mortgate-backed ( Read more... )

So, you might have heard that Obama has decided to stop building the stupid, overpriced, inefficient missile defense system in Europe that no one but the defense contractors wanted built. As a result, Russia's Defense Ministry claims that they'll also back down from placing missiles near Poland ( Read more... )

So...I might be an actual writer now. Granted, it's for a little show on a student-operated network, but after trading a few emails with a guy I know I might have just become a writer on this little show he's been doing with a few assorted comedians and telco majors on campus. I got to sit in today and offer a few suggestions while they were ( Read more... )

[if this doesn't make sense, I'm kinda on a "runner's high" right now ( Read more... )

Band shirts hit wrong note with parents

The band debuted the T-shirts when it marched in the Missouri State Fair parade. Summers said he was surprised when he received a direct complaint after the parade ( Read more... )