This awesome bank has sent this awesome letter to Congress. I am so, like, proud of this bank for standing up against the bailout. I assume that all financial institutions are pro-bailout, but the more I think about it, the more it makes sense for anamolies in bailout opinion.
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Bailout Idea-rs
October 1st, 2008 · No Comments
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Bailing Out
September 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment
So there’s a lot of news about “economic collapse” and “federal bailouts” but the terminology, chronology and methodology of these stories is really confusing; laymen like us don’t really understand. You’d have to have about three degrees to get it and explain it and the people writing the articles aren’t doing a good job- not […]
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The National Enquirer: Son of a Mill Worker fornicates
July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
It looks like a political figure has once again been caught (or appears to have been caught) in a scandalous situation. This scandal is bigger than the Spitzer scandal in the scandal matrix, because Edwards has not only been unfaithful to his wife, who is battling breast cancer, but he also has fathered a love […]
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Satire? Irony? WTFing the New Yorker cover
July 14th, 2008 · No Comments
It’s not that I am upset by the cover, it’s just that a lot of other people seem to be. The cover is clearly not meant to say Obama’s a terrorist or whatever, but it does kind of seem cartoonish and innappropriate from the standpoint of someone who gets easily offended- which I don’t. But it […]
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Slavery still happens.
June 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Just read this story about a modern day case of slavery. This woman “employed” two Indonesian woman. And by employed I mean she beat them and abused them while they worked for her; after she had confiscated their passports and visas. The family paid the “housekeepers’” families 100 dollars a month. Besides, doesn’t she just LOOK […]
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Oppotunity vs Pragmatism
June 27th, 2008 · No Comments
Now that Obama is the general election candidate, the media has been focusing on a McCain vs Obama deathmatch; the Huffington Post is featuring “FearWatch ‘08″ and the Washington Post just published this op-ed, calling Obama an “opportunist”. So the knife is definitely sharp on both sides, as they say. It is funny, to me, […]
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Obama wins.
June 4th, 2008 · No Comments
Two questions:
What happened to “neither candidate will be able to win the amount of delegates needed to claim nomination”?
and
Why was the media telling us that if it wasn’t true?
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Rape
May 29th, 2008 · No Comments
People expect to hear stories coming out of the Middle East and Africa like this one: A woman, Mukhtaran Bibi, is gang raped by six men and they are convicted and sentenced to death. The men appeal their punishment and the conviction is overturned for five men; the sixth’s sentence becomes more lenient- life in […]
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The “Day After Tomorrow” is like, TODAY.
May 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments
The world has been ravaged by natural disasters over the past few days. It is truly frightening, for example, to be on a JetBlue airplane, watching CNN on your way to your parent’s house, only to see multiple reports on cyclones and earthquakes. New York City looked like it was living through it’s own little […]
RITOPL: Innovation News
May 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
Today the Open Publishing Lab at Rochester Institute of Technology pulled the trigger on a really cool media experiment.
I’m still waiting to see if they’ll publish a full report on the technologies used, accrued material output (both hard and soft), and further materials on the medium syncs, but here’s what happened today, put very simply:
The […]
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