I thought it was going to be about how to avoid 'stuff' splashing you on the tushie when you pull the handle, not having your insides ripped out like a six year old stuck on a swimming pool grate...

and isn't it really 'brown' humor?

I'd sure love to consolidate all of my debt into one low monthly payment. Yeah, 30 years @ 0% interest would catch my interest!

Does the Federal Reserve Bank have a drive through window? Or is it more like a 'drive-by' window?

...and your enemies closer!

This is an act of hollow symbolism. Rest assured, Obama will still manage to totally piss off the religious right when he puts forward his 'activist' judge nominee(s) for the Supreme Court.

Their hypocrisy will be apparent when, despite this pointless act of futile 'inclusiveness', they still rant and wail when they don't get their way.

The far left needs to lighten up. After 8 years of the occupant in chief, Obama will be a breath of fresh air...

innocent until lynched by high tech media. surprise, surprise! pearly perfect Obama turns out to be human after all.

by inviting Rick Warren to the inauguration, he shows that he's not going to knee-jerk suckup to the liberal left.

by more or less ignoring the blagojevich scandal, he shows that he's not going to knee-jerk react to the radical right.

i think this man will exceed everyone's expectation, but not as they originally expected him to.

fine by me.

When you were a little kid, you didn't read the White Holy Bible with the pictures of the White Jesus living in the White Middle East with all of the other bearded old White Men?

I always wondered why everyone in those biblical renderings looked as Aryan as the Rev. Ted Haggard...

now i remember why....

I read something somewhere on the 'net that explained why, as you become older, the days seem shorter.

When you are five or six years old, any given year is a relatively significant percentage (20%, 16%) of your life.

When you are forty or fifty, a single year is less than 3% of your life.

So, as you become older, each year seems to go faster, because each year is a smaller part of your entire life.

That being said, the roller coaster that was 2008 seemed to stretch out forever and ever.

I can only hope the next election campaign cycle does not start before 2011, and that the entire planet is not a smoking ruin before then.

at least nobody keyed your car...

is available on YouTube and Google Video - merely use Google Video to search for "Our Friend The Atom Disney"...

...when they canceled Max Headroom and replaced it with Mr. Belvedere. That was 1987.

Been downhill ever since. When I was a teenager and cable was first invented (ok, installed), we had a saying: the only thing worse than nothing on three channels is nothing on 32. Things have not changed much in the interim.

Thank god for The Pirate Bay.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/scene-stealer-the-axxo-files-1214699.html

well, kind of... ;-)

Look where the 'free market' has gotten us today. They're all 'free market' privateers, until they go into the red, then it's 'socialize' the losses.

I would say that the supply-siders have missed the boat and worn out their welcome - their philosophy has been totally discredited by current events.

It would be interesting to hear the economists' opinions once they're ejected from their ivory towers and into the unemployment line. They'd be singing a far different tune.

In their eyes, the economy is like the weather: everyone should talk about it but nobody (i.e. govt.) should do anything about it...

When did we become fixated on a constant 2% or 3% yearly growth in our GNP? It simply isn't eternally sustainable. Ditto for a 16% per year growth in housing values.

When Google's share price was at $72, it could grow 1000% to $720 per share.

However, once it got there, it was fairly impossible for the share price to grow another 1000% to $7200 per share.

A lot of investors obviously failed basic high-school math, because that is what their behavior indicates they were expecting. Kind of like expecting to hit double zero at the roulette wheel twice in a row.

The federal reserve banker, like the emperor, has no clothes. Someone, at some point, needs to point this out. If Obama were to make a speech stating "perpetual growth cannot continue indefinitely" I would be more hopeful for American society as a whole, but I am not holding my breath.

Saying that perpetual growth is good for society is like saying peeing in the swimming pool is good for the water level...

to quote one recent article:

Once a regional economic model, Zimbabwe is in the throes of economic crisis with inflation officially at 231 million percent and most families unable to afford a square meal.

The sky's the limit!

...they resisted changing the 99 cent price paradigm since the ITMS was introduced.

However, the DRM removal is a huge deal, philosophically if not technically...

er, I'll shut up now......