Filed under: Earnings reports, Conventions and conferences, Economic data, Federal Reserve After testifying before a Senate committee about AIG (NYSE: AIG) last week, the Fed's Ben Bernanke participates in a Council of Foreign Relations event Monday evening. Economic data due to be released this wee...

When we last saw Roy Pearson, he had filed a petition asking the full D.C. Court of Appeals to rehear his case en banc.  As you likely recall, Pearson is the former judge who sued his dry cleaner for allegedly losing a pair of pants, ultimately claiming $65 million in damages -- $65 million more th...

I yelled at someone tonight who deserved to be yelled at but I now really wish I could have kept my cool. How does one keep their cool while getting the point across to someone that they're incompetent? Here's the background: I've been doing preproduction for a job while juggling other jobs for the ...

Inheriting countless challenges, Congress and the Obama administration have moved quickly on many fronts to implement their economic agenda. After two months of drastic interventions, has hope replaced fear, and confidence pushed aside uncertainty? Hardly. The budget the president released last week...

As far back as I can remember, Mathura is the first restaurant that I visited, which had (a) forks (b) Chairs with cushions on it and (c) A/c. Forks are queer things to get introduced to. They have no value whatsoever in the world of Indian foods. That too in the 80s - with no clue on how to use the...

Former Weather Underground leaders Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn - Obama's neighbour and terrorist pal, and his even more odious terrorist wife - are currently promoting their new book Race Course Against White Supremacy.  Zombie posts another fine photo essay on one of their San Francisc...

[Austin, Texas] Dear Crazy, Deranged Fools, For those who missed it, here's an extract from this week's "Crazy, Deranged Fools" Newsletter: 2. Holiday Cottage? South Congress? What? Again, let me give you the skinny... B.J., the groovy cat who owns Verde Camp here in Austin [The cottages are painted...

Our old buddy and the Italian hero on Fool’s Gold Records, Congorock, just dropped his “Runark EP” (with remixes from Jokers Of The Scene and His Majesty Andre). The razorsharp synth together with the vocals will lift your ass off that bar stool and for the rest we can only say tha...

Why is a barely-there-been-and-gone, failed Liberal Opposition leader from so-long-ago-he's-barely-remembered giving political advice slagging off like anyone cares what he thinks? Oh wait, he's writing for Fairfax. In "a space for people of influence to have their say."  By ...

I dislike Rap. Hell, I hate it. I don't get it, and my Paddyass white brain doesn't find it musically or intellectually interesting. In this, I am sure I resemble my father trying to get his head around Bob Dylan and not getting it. That said, I accept that I am an old white guy and I don't like con...