Please, do yourself a favor and listen tothis interview between BBC reporter/comedian Toby Foster and newly elected ignorant as hell crazy racist fuck Doncaster mayor Peter Davies ( Read more... )

I had a chance to go to the farmer's market and the grocery store last night after deciding that it was okay to drop $20 on some groceries despite being sort of anxious about my (lack of a) revenue stream for the summer. That could change next week, hopefully ( Read more... )

I did not think Manchester United was going to trade Ronaldo. But, they are. So, add this to Kaká's coming over and we have a Real Madrid who've spent about $225 million in two weeks for top notch players....despite being the most in debt club in European football. How? The way they're structured apparently - as a non-profit social trust. As ( Read more... )

I've been reading Žižek lately - not terribly familiar with Lacan so a lot of what the man has to say goes over my head and I have to look up definitions and positions and such, but overall I like him, with one exception being his references to and utilization of classical music to explain a point. These references are sometimes muddled and - as ( Read more... )

I just finished Den of Thieves, James B. Stewart’s account of the insider trading/junk bond scandals of the Eighties. It was a good read, full of detail but not so bogged down with the intricacies of the schemes that I would lose interest. Stewart unequivocally paints Milken in an unsympathetic light and since this book seems to have become the ( Read more... )

This is probably better than Inglorious Bastards.

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So Susan Boyle got carted off to a mental institution after losing, eh? That's kind of weird.

so i listen to the radio as i'm falling asleep and there was just a story on about The American Dream; interviewer talking to a couple who lost their source of income and are having to live on a budget now and may have to move out of their ridiculous house into an apartment. i didn't catch what they did, but it was implied that they were wealthy, ( Read more... )

I meant to post this yesterday in honor of memorial day, but was busy with other things.

The powers that have for centuries been engaged in enslaving the masses have made a thorough study of their psychology. They know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow, and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy. And the more ( Read more... )

Which is impressive given how crazy I am ( Read more... )