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16 Nov

Life fucking rocks up here, so suck on my yacht


In his own inimitable way, Matt Taibbi goes another round with Goldman-Sachs:

The more I think about it, though, the more I think that this must be some sort of clever p.r. strategy. I’m actually almost desperate to believe that this is a conscious strategy on Goldman’s part because if this really is what it looks like — if these people really are that blind and stupid — then that makes their exalted, entrenched position as mega-oligarchs endlessly lording over us truly horrifying, in a the-universe-is-random, black-comedy sort of way. It’s like making it all the way to the end of The Wizard of Oz and finding out that the Wizard is a hospital patient on a Haldol drip pushing a mop down the corridor of a cranial injury ward.

That’s just too hard for me to accept, for the moment anyway. So I’m choosing to believe they’re doing this on purpose, [...]

He has a gift for simile, doesn’t he?


16 Nov

Another cause worth backing


In 1974, Dock Ellis became the third Pittsburgh Pirate to throw a no-hitter.  Above is the story, told by Dock hisself.  Now here is the petition to have the MLB Network broadcast the game.  Sign this petition.

Tip of the cap to Craig.