December 2010
22 posts
its hot here
and my bags were stuck in germany
but yay family
but hot
1 tag
byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
its been an interesting year. semester.
now im leaving
hope to have a good time
will miss you. and you all.
have a great break.
see you on the other side
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101213/ap_on_re_us/us_... →
Robert Reich: The Why-Should-I-Get-Out-Of-My-Chair... →
robertreich:
In the 2010 midterm elections Democrats suffered from a so-called “enthusiasm gap.”
If Dems agree to the tax plan just negotiated by the White House with Republican leaders, they’ll face a “why-should-I-get-up-out-of-my-chair” gap that will make 2010’s Dem enthusiasm seem like a pep rally by…
Lol
correlationstonone:
Now you’re supposed to point out that I’m offering paternalism as an alternative to paternalism
This is how systems like ours emerge, because at the end of the day there really isn’t much help you can offer to generally content individuals that are easy to silence. Capitalism, Communism, Mercantilism, Feudalism…all different sides of the same coin. Power is inescapable,...
“We are going to take it up with the government of United States, and I hope that...”
– Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna • Reacting to the shoddy treatment that the Indian ambassador to the U.S., Meera Shankar, got recently. That’s right, an ambassador got chosen for a pat down. But here’s the thing. Foreign leaders have the clout to make them stop. Regular people? They...
The U.S. sold off its last Citi shares; how'd we...
shortformblog:
0 the number of Citi shares the U.S. owns as of today; good riddance
$45B the amount of money the U.S. infused in Citi during the great bailout crisis of 2008
$57B the proceeds the U.S. made on the bailout investment (golf clap; good show, chaps)
$12B the amount the U.S. has profited from Citi – wait, we made money on a bailout? source
Making nothing out of something: * →
correlationstonone:
*You’ve long been promised that growth would cover the shortfall, because for some reason the Government believes it’s a really good investor. We believe the Government is a really good investor! That’s because we tend to view things with really short time horizons according to our prejudices and…
“If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people,...”
– (via discordandriot)
Squashed: Wikileaks and Amazon →
jeffmiller:
shortformblog:
jeffmiller says: If someone were hosting pirated movies on Amazon’s cloud service, would it surprise us if Amazon shut it down? Is this really any different than that?
» We say: Provocative, whistleblowing free speech is not the same thing as copyright…
