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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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...
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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...
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March 05, 2009
Ferret Tarot. A deck for all sexual persuasions. Double-sided decks. Disney tarot (not for publication) Tarot dog tags. Decks with a Happy Squirrel! Electronic Republican Tarot....
Chaos Theory
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March 02, 2009
CNN doesn't talk about Anderson Cooper's sexuality. The network and anchor have their reasons. Jane Velez-Mitchell at CNN's Headline News is taking a slightly more open approach. Just to give you a sense, here's the first sentence of Brian Stelter's profile of the Issues host in the New York Times: ...
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February 27, 2009
Especially when they don't write a mouth-foamy column about something like this. Yay....
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February 25, 2009
Friday, the Tivoli will start running both parts of Steven Soderberg's biographical Che as one four-and-a-half-hour-long presentation, without all the extras like "previews," or "ending credits," bu... Continue reading "Daily Briefs: ¡Viva la Revolucion! Would you like a pillowy cushion for your bu...
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February 06, 2009
As a Taurus, I'm amused....
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February 05, 2009
Hard to imagine, but try: Could the eco-hippies who published late green magazine Plenty be stiffing writers who contributed to its last issue? Environmental writers are starting to suspect so! A tipster tells us a group of stiffed contributors is rounding up legal counsel to go after the magazine f...
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