Somehow, when posting my previous post, I missed Mrs. Florence Green. The last surviving WWI veteran has now passed. RIP, Mrs. Green, et al. BBC Read More

Just since I was covering this for a while, Frank Buckles has passed, aged 110.Link Read More

I have already commented on the local water utility and their interesting ideas as to what constitutes "investing in the community". However, today I discovered they decided to kick it up a… Read More

As a Pennsylvania citizen, I've always had a soft spot for Hershey's chocolate. Turns out the relentless flow of globalization is causing more jobs to get shipped down to Mexico. Boycott P… Read More

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Krugman posts today about how in 2005 the Fed were not listening to any negative news relating to securitization.I'm rather astonished by the sheer magnitude of the groupthink that must have… Read More

In my ongoing efforts to document our Treasury Secretary and his "Clap Louder" message, here's our newest installment. (I'm quoting this more than I probably should because this only shows… Read More

My boy Hank really delivered in an interview reported today, as we head into the scary leg of the Global Financial Crisis.Paulson says U.S. lacked tools to tackle crisis: reportHmm....I'd ha… Read More

Messr. Lazare Ponticelli, the last surviving French WWI veteran, passed away Wed. Mar 12th, at age 110. Au Revior et merci Messr. Ponticelli.Mr Ponticelli, who lived with his daughter in a… Read More

Holy fucking shit!It's been a long time coming. Amazing job for the Obama staff.Awesomeness Read More

FT via Naked Capitalism, we are alerted to the fact that China is to stop its massive purchases of refined petroleum products. Now that the Olympics are over (and the stockpiles are full) t… Read More

Hmm...surely this ain't good. FDIC seems to think it's gonna need more cash in the future. IndyMac started the hurt, now what's next? (From WSJ)Probably good for a 200 point DOW pop tomor… Read More

1. Today (well, July 1st 2008, so depends on when I hit "publish") is the 100th anniversary of the adoption of S.O.S. as the universal symbol of distress. As is discussed in the linked art… Read More

Once again, it appears that the Senator from the Great State of Wisconsin is all that stands between us and the destruction of Civil Liberties as we know it.The Russinator and Chris Dodd are… Read More

Hello? Hello? Is this thing on?[tap, tap- SQUEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111]Um...hey. So, yeah. I guess it's been a while.Just wanted to do a quick rundown of what's new and exciting today.T… Read More

(via /.)BDS, this one is for you...more open source beer!"Three years ago we discussed an open source brewing project in which a Danish brewer made his beer recipes available for public cons… Read More

I missed this one last night, so here's the dope. The Writer's Guild has overwhelmingly voted to approve the new contract. The Strike is officially over. As has been noted elsewhere, it w… Read More

There are two interesting stories on China's place in the world of manufacturing tonight. Since Americans have spent a good chunk of the new millenium crapping our pants over the emergence… Read More

Us damned librul elites strike again....Long story short: I was searching for some quote attributions, and google let me down.Meanwhile, from bartleby.com, while searching on "Dave Barry"… Read More

1. Over on Kos, diarist Grand Moff Texan makes some points that aren't automatically clear to a lot of the Dem party establishment:I learned that lesson. Obama learned that lesson. Have yo… Read More

Wow, man. It doesn't seem all that long ago that companies would write up bold, sweeping mission and vision statments to express their commitment to top-notch customer service. Oh sure, t… Read More

Here's Conan O'Brien doing a vid during the Writers' strike. First half is kind of "meh."It picks up in the last two or three minutes. BDS, this is for you. We're talking Rock Band, Beast… Read More

I'm probably late to the party on this one, but I just tonight discovered my newest favorite band* (of the moment [I'm fickle]).The band in question is Architecture in Helsinki. Contrary to… Read More

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Come on, y'all...are you the Republican Party or the Republican't Party?Apparently, with only 15% of the Florida vote, Rudy has followed the lead of Granpa Fred and bailed on his Presidentia… Read More