In a very rare occurrence, I won’t be near a computer much the next couple of days. I’ll leave forty bucks on the counter in case of emergency.
Don’t say anything I wouldn’t
November 20, 2008 by indeedindeedLong wait, easy review
November 20, 2008 by indeedindeedWho would you want reviewing Chinese Democracy but Chuck Klosterman?
From my brother.
The big tease
November 19, 2008 by indeedindeedZach LOVES the 2010 Ford Fusion, which will get 38 mpg in the city. Unfortunately Ford can only make 25 thousand a year, which is sort of like Taco Bell only selling the cheesy g on Tuesdays at 7 a.m.
We know already
November 19, 2008 by indeedindeedThe UAW has been rolling over and taking concessionary contracts for years. The idea that labor needs to learn that the auto industry is in trouble is ridiculous—they’ve known this longer than anyone, they’ve been the ones losing jobs and taking cuts, and dividing workers through tiered wages for new hires.
I’ve been running around
November 19, 2008 by indeedindeedI’ve been obsessively listening to Southern rock family Kings of Leon for the past few days. These guys rule, though their music definitely makes me want to quit my job and sleep through the winter in the back of a pickup along the Rio Grande while washing dishes for food at a bar and getting beat up for reading Marx and Freud.
Cult classic?
November 19, 2008 by indeedindeedAnyone see this?
There are 236 deaths in Equilibrium with Christian Bale’s character Cleric John Preston killing 118 of those people.
Also featuring the strangely memorable Emily Watson and the strangely forgettable Taye Diggs.
Organized labor and the Detroit mess
November 18, 2008 by indeedindeedStrangers in the night
November 18, 2008 by indeedindeedI hate to admit it, but I agree with York: it’s strange that I can be a baseball fan and maybe have seen five live Pujols at-bats in my life. The NL is another world entirely.
Grow a damn backbone
November 18, 2008 by indeedindeedRegarding Lieberman—this is totally ridiculous:
When Senate Dems caucus tomorrow, the Democratic leadership is likely to propose that he keep his Homeland Security chairmanship but lose a lesser sub-committee chairmanship instead, according to a source familiar with the situation.
If it happens that way, Senate Dems will be allowing Lieberman to keep his plum spot despite the fact that he has been a disaster at the post, and despite the fact that he endorsed efforts by the GOP to imply that Obama is in league with terrorists, suggested that Obama endangered our troops, and said Obama hasn’t always put the country first.
If Obama—who’s now the head of the Democratic Party—allows Lieberman to keep this slot, and then picks Clinton as Secretary of State, he’s either an absolute genius of leadership or a total power-loving hack. What happened to all that change we were hearing about? Stand up for a different direction.
Again, maybe Obama is so brilliant as to be able to make people who spent the last years denying he was worthy to lead the country now follow his demands. Or, more likely, we’re going to see more of the same center-right establishment foreign policy that Obama supposedly represented a move away from.
Record-breaking pessimism
November 18, 2008 by indeedindeedZach has now broken his own record for fantasy sports pessimism:
there’s no way i can come back. wanted to compete, but that one night put you too far ahead.
This is after the first of a seven day basketball week.
