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People are pissed off about this financial crisis, and about this bailout, but they're not pissed off enough. The reality is that the worldwide economic meltdown and the bailout that followed were together a kind of revolution, a coup d'état. They cemented and formalized a political trend that has been snowballing for decades: the gradual takeover of the government by a small class of connected insiders, who used money to control elections, buy influence and systematically weaken financial regulations.

An interesting cautionary tale for publishers – the newspapers are sinking faster, but publishers face all these same issues.

Design company that just redesigned Seed Magazine.

Melissa McEwan is brilliant.

Only 53% of adults know how long it takes for the Earth to revolve around the Sun. Only 59% of adults know that the earliest humans and dinosaurs did not live at the same time. Only 47% of adults can roughly approximate the percent of the Earth's surface that is covered with water.*
* Only 21% of adults answered all three questions correctly.

Here's a proposal; the seed of a big idea, perhaps: let loose. Think about the most unchangeable features of your city, and try to imagine them changed. Don't just daydream; come up with Big Ideas, grand plans for revolutionizing the way that your city works.

I need to go to this in the next few weeks

This bug gave me hell today.

They're actually springing up all over the country, but Sacramento is particularly noteworthy

Joint Special Operations Command – the secret assassination command that Cheney headed up – had to stop operations because they were killing to many innocent civilians in Afghanistan.

Bush had a personal assasination ring called the Joint Special Operations Command that reported directly in to Cheney, and who went in and committed assassinations in other countries.

Yes, happy birthday.

But it has grown entirely out of hand. It is time to put away childish things. I must restore my balance, view the world in a fair way, hope to inspire more appreciation than ridicule. No doubt there will always be a role for snarking, given the proper target and an appropriate venue, and I reserve the right to snark when it is deserved, as in certain movie reviews. But in general I must become more well-behaved.

Did you know that a Nazi guy was building a dirty nuclear bomb to set of at the Inauguration, and that he was only stopped because his wife shot him? It's true! And scary.

I can't believe the balls on that principal – who the fuck does he think he is? Fucker. I'm calling him.

Long Island Iced 401-K — Put hopes in shaker. Add dreams. Shake until dashed, then drink all the vodka, gin, tequila and rum left in liquor cabinet.

Oh, dear. It seems that, once again, I may have failed to appeal sexually to each and every member of the male gender. It's not that I'm not trying: I spend several hours of each and every day pondering how best to serve the boner needs of my community.