The “Giant Pool of Money”

If you’re still looking to further understand the roots of the current economic “crisis” there may be few better places to start than this episode of NPR’s always wonderful and illuminating “This American Life” program, wherein host Ira Glass talks with a business journalist about a gathering he attended to celebrate the creation of cockamamie, [...]

Matters of No Importance

Nice to see that our media is completely relevant vis-à-vis current events.

Plus ça Change…

“Israel has… always believed that causing suffering to Palestinian civilians would make them rebel against their national leaders. This assumption has proven wrong over and over,” wrote Israeli historian Tom Segev in yesterday’s Ha’aretz newspaper. “Since the dawn of the Zionist presence in the Land of Israel, no military operation has ever advanced dialogue with [...]

JibJab: 2008 Year in Review

Pointless Trivia: This is the first JibJab year-in-review video to not mention Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Improving Care for Schizophrenics

I’d suggest first targeting people who listen to Alex Jones…

Things to Say During Sex

Some of us have been busy with other matters…
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News of the Bland

Unsurprisingly, most of the leading newspapers are largely filled this weekend with the sort of dreary “year-end” fodder that gets scraped up from the bottom of the barrel with some amount of desperation to fill the yawning news void around the holidays; pieces looking back with the obligatory jaded contempt at the so-called political plays [...]

Woolworths: Dead (Again!)

Poor old Frank W. Woolworth must be spinning yet again in his trustworthy, bargain-basement “5 and dime” grave at the latest, and perhaps mercifully final death-throws of his century-old (nearly) retail chain.
The venerable outfit folded its operations here in Canada about 15 yrs. ago when it sold out most of its stores to Wal-Mart [...]

Another Year, Another Israeli War

From the NYT: The Israeli Air Force on Saturday launched a massive attack on Hamas targets throughout Gaza in retaliation for the recent heavy rocket fire from the area, hitting mostly security headquarters, training compounds and weapons storage facilities, the Israeli military and witnesses said.

It’s hard to disagree with the sentiment [...]

A Drive in the Country

Some vehicular bullying by a couple of “good ol’ boys” goes badly awry…