Sorry I’ve been underground this week. Anybody want to guess why? Points to anyone who said Modern Warfare 2. It’s good. Anyways, time to tab dump.
Sex, Lies, and Misogyny: Oh, I could keep going on, but I’m so disgusted with Congress I could scream. Mike put it well when he said “Because nothing says freedom like forcing a woman with a dead fetus to get a sepsis infection.” Of course, big business is taking advantage of the fact that women make less than men and firing the employees who make “too much”. Except for the big bosses of course! We couldn’t ask them to take less money or anything like that. I’ve got news for both political parties: women are roughly 50% of voters and no candidate can win without at least some of us voting for his or her worthless hide.
Fail Fail: High school’s autodialer system accidentally calls “thousands” of parents to tell them their kid is failing at least one class. Oops, that call should only have gone to parents of kids who were actually in fact failing. I sure do hope no kids were punished as a result of this message. I can imagine the conversations: “You liar! The school says you are failing a class, what is it??” “I swear dad, I don’t know! I thought I was doing good in all my classes!” Insert profanity as the conversation continues.
Pretty darn good as dreams go: A dream “That Congress actually cared about working people.”
Speaking of Congress Screwing the People: Dylan Rattigan goes off on the 10th anniversary of repealing Glass Steagal. Wow, I am liking the new, improved, angry Dylan!
Well Named: The TARP continues to live up to it’s unfortunately accurate acronym, and will cost the taxpayer money that could have gone to healthcare, education, roads, the aqueducts, etc.. We all would have been better off if Congress had given $100,000 towards each primary mortgage.
The Supreme Court may Change Everything: It looks like the entire court is ridiculing the idea that a business practice can be patented. The interesting and potentially game-changing part of this is that software patents are a subgroup of business practice patents.
The WPA Built my High School: (Seriously. But it’s just not the same since they tore out half the front lawn to widen the freeway.) Some interesting thoughts on building public works in the modern economy.
Does she like photographs? Eh? Eh?: Say no more. Releasing risque photographs as a form of sexual assault.
Omnibus: Bruce Schneier distills all his thoughts on security theatre into one brilliant essay.
Japanfilter, Take a Bow: Ok, this is really a pretty simple gaffe. Obama-sama is bowing to Akihito-sama as if he were a Japanese citizen, not as if he is the leader of a sovereign nation of at least equal importance to Japan. Notice the slight bow from Akihito-sama and the even slighter inclination from Michiko-sama? However, the people screaming about this sure didn’t say much when Bush-sama was off kissing Saudi princes!
The misfit guy sure doesn’t like Geitner… did you check out the story over at the Deep Capture site?
no good segue here, so I’ll just make an observation: Your man Obama sure likes to travel. twenty one countries in less than a year. It may well be that this admin will be known as the Junket Presidency. And dancing like a school boy in front of every leader he meets. While, yer right, it beats slipping them the tongue, it doesn’t present a posture of leadership. A good analogy for our place in world politics, perhaps.
Willie (usa) Loman, at your door, hat in hand.Tragic.