Category: Assholes

Finally, people are waking up to the fact that its time to tell the short sellers to go home: A European market regulator announced Thursday night that short-selling of financial stocks in several countries would be temporarily banned in an effort to stop the tailspin in the markets. The move may put pressure on United… Continue reading Why don’t we ban it here?

This post is for Phib’s chattering class. One of the most bracing things about going to a blog where hard core wingnuttery prevails-is having to defend common sense. It’s hard-because unlike what they would have you believe-facts are not relevant, and they are more than willing to attack you personally. Yet like Lex-they defend the… Continue reading And yet-somehow-I am the one that is wrong.

Watching Bloomberg today has been a bit eye-opening. First of all, they are talking about the immediate sell-off that occurred when the job numbers are announced. Then they had a rash of politicians on, including Michelle Bachmann on telling me how this proves that  Obama’s approach to the economy failed. Ok-and what exactly would you… Continue reading Disenfranchised

Conor Friedersdorf has a good take down of America’s most worthless piece of shitsleaziest blogmeister: There is some truth in Breitbart’s assessment: liberals do excel in the realm of culture, and conservatives too often convey their ideas less adeptly. But he hasn’t a clue how to remedy the situation — in fact, he exacerbates it.… Continue reading There is a shorter way to say it.

John Cole describes Paul Ryan’s evil and disgusting budget proposal: Medicare costs are increasing too fast, so in order to get those costs in line, we’ll use the Ryan plan! We’ll give trillions away in tax cuts and then… stop paying for Medicare. Voila! Problem solved! Try that shit at home, folks. Your significant other… Continue reading Summed up in one paragraph…….

Why can’t we just catch the contracting officer in a compromising position? It’s got to be easier to blackmail your way into a successful bid than this shit:

“[Rand] had a habit of exaggerating her own suffering, and she often forgot to credit those whose ideas she borrowed and who helped her in more material ways. She humiliated her husband. She could be narcissistic, shrill, demanding, untidy, even unclean, and her use of amphetamines exacerbated her angry outbursts, unkempt periods, and paranoia.” Atlas… Continue reading The truth about Ayn Rand………