Does President Obama Ever Do any Real Work?

I turned on the TV today, and guess who I saw–again! Yes, our prime-time President. And he was on TV yesterday and the day before that. Does he really have to be on television every single day? Couldn’t he actually sit at his desk in the Oval Office and do a little real work once [...]

Unemployment Chronicles – could it really be that…

I GOT A JOB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After 2 layoffs within 4 months, illness, stress that was eating up my insides, I finally got one!   Ok, it’s a PT job but good paying part time job, which means I can pay rent and fill up my gas tank on a more consistent basis.  I start this Monday. [...]

Mathmagical Formulas

Usually when economysterians like Dakinikat explain money stuff they use a semi-secret special language that makes my eyes glaze over and I slump lifelessly in a semi-comatose state until they are done.  Even Paul Krugman droneswrites in a narcolepsy-inducing shrill monotone.  That’s why I have had trouble understanding WTF happened to our economy until  Matt Taibbi explained in [...]

Friday: A sensitive subject

Dakinikat says this cartoon by Thomas Oliphant of the Boston Globe reminds her of something: Mr. Oliphant should expect to get long, lecturing letters about the Holocaust, which he obviously has never heard of. In other news: The NYTimes still hates Kirsten Gillibrand.  Now they are highlighting the work she did as a young attorney [...]

Conflucians Say: Do you think we *like* being right?

I mean, sure, there’s a certain amount of smug self-satisfaction.  We said he wasn’t ready.  We said he’d be over his head.  We said he could bring the whole shebang down on our heads because he wouldn’t know how to manipulate the levers of government.  We said he would be weak and vulnerable to the [...]

“Everybody does it” whines TOTUS

The Confluence is one of several blogs that has been calling attention to the forbidden love between a man and his TelePrompter.  If you Google “Obama TelePrompter” you will get 1,150,00o hits in .55 seconds.  The TelePrompter Of The United States even has it’s own blog. It must be having an effect because this past [...]

Open Thread: Dangerous Floods and Adorable Babies

Please send good vibes to my home town, Fargo, North Dakota, and the entire state and region. I’ve been following the story for a few days now. The state has been declared a disaster area and FEMA is already up there to help. North Dakota is in a race against time as residents try to [...]

Thursday: “I ripped their faces off”

According to Frank Partnoy, former derivatives dealer and now law professor, that’s what he and his buddies used to say after they sold some murky derivative to suckers like Orange County, CA and Proctor and Gamble.  Partnoy gave a fascinating interview with Terry Gross yesterday on Fresh Air and discussed the history of the derivatives [...]

The President’s Preacher Help Line

Recently, The New York Times and the Telegraph uk have published articles about five religious leaders who are advising President Barack Obama. Supposedly Obama has sought these five men’s counsel (yes, they are all men natch) because he has been without a church and pastor of his own since he threw his former pastor, Jeremiah [...]

Things that make you go hmmm, episode 3

Stop me if you’ve heard this one already.  James Kwak at Baseline Scenario found this nugget buried in Monica Langley’s silly piece at the WSJ that Cinie dispatched yesterday: Some bankers say they turned the conversations into complaints about the antibonus crusade consuming Capitol Hill. Some have begun “slow-walking” the information previously sought by Treasury [...]