March 11, 2009
Reader Zuzu’s Petals digs up the relevant NY Times story from 1995 that describes the mindset when they decided to stop requiring banks to pay FDIC premiums: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation decided today to virtually eliminate deposit insurance premiums for most commercial banks afte...
Balloon Juice
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John Cole
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The story of my health insurance crisis, by the numbers.8 --The day in February (not March, FEBRUARY) that my doctor first sent in the pre-authorization for my medication.17-- The day in February that I picked up my last prescription for my medication and found out that the pharmacy had only filled ...
What was I THINKING?
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margalit
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March 10, 2009
I just dreamt about a grilled cheese and ham sandwich and a milkshake, which I take to mean that chocolate cake for lunch was actually a miserable idea. (But it was there!) I miss J.P. Licks in Jamaica Plain. The two times I tried to order a milkshake at the local McDonald's, they were out. How on e...
Verba Vita Est
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March 09, 2009
Is there no greater proof of one’s commitment to a spouse than the fact that The Hammer actually agreed to see The Watchmen this weekend? I think not, even when one takes into consideration that the deal was brokered without one party coming clean on the film’s 160-minute length. Off the top, I ...
AMEN
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Wook
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Recently, upon the recommendations of a few people, I picked up a copy of the book “Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software�. This book is a great read and includes essays from some of the top minds in software today. Some of the topics covered a...
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podwysocki
at 12:31 PM
March 08, 2009
Director : Uwe Boll Release Date : 18 October 2007 (Germany) Genre : Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller Cast : Zack Ward as Dude, Dave Foley as Uncle Dave, Chris Coppola as Richard, Jackie Tohn as Faith, J.K. Simmons as Candidate Wells, Ralf Moeller as Officer John, Verne Troyer as Himself, Chris Spen...
Awesome Movies- Watch Free Movies
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I don’t understand: Factory jobs disappeared. Inflation soared. Unemployment climbed to alarming levels. The hungry lined up at soup kitchens. It wasn’t the Great Depression. It was the 1981-82 recession, widely considered America’s worst since the depression. That painful time dur...
Balloon Juice
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John Cole
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March 07, 2009
Coming soon to Austin's Waterloo Park on the first day of spring, March 21, the dudes from F Yeah Fest bring the third annual edition of "Mess With Texas". And holy hell is the line-up nine times ridiculous, including the likes of: The Black LipsKing Khan & The ShrinesThe ThermalsCursiveThao w...
the culture of me
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THE CULTURE OF ME
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teh glorious interweb as it got stuck in my camino tabs this past week - the edited version. one world one twitter Twitter, Google Maps Used To Track Down Two Missing Skiers - "Yesterday, a group of technology entrepreneurs from the UK on a skiing vacation in the Swiss Alps (Verbier) lost two o...
piece 0 plastic - the revolution will be blogged
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March 06, 2009
A friend sent me the text of a recent WSJ editorial entitled “Will This Crisis Produce a ‘Gatsby’?� I’ll link to it later—for now I want to recreate my bad-faith reading experience in all its glory. My first reaction was to the title, even though I know authors never write their own ti...
Acephalous
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