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hollybailey: Mitt Romney arrives in Hayden CO. Seamus joke.

Mon, 28 May 2012 22:11:46 -0400

hollybailey:

Mitt Romney arrives in Hayden CO.

Seamus joke.

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Mon, 28 May 2012 21:37:23 -0400

Cachet.

Mon, 28 May 2012 14:39:00 -0400

Cachet.

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Mon, 28 May 2012 00:54:09 -0400

approvethismess: LOL Politico (via Classic Politico: ‘Surely,...

Fri, 25 May 2012 14:37:11 -0400

approvethismess:

LOL Politico

(via Classic Politico: ‘Surely, All Of This Could Prove To Be Ephemeral And Meaningless’ - Image source )

"I dressed up as Boccassini with a toga to make him laugh, and also as Obama."

Fri, 25 May 2012 11:25:25 -0400

“I dressed up as Boccassini with a toga to make him laugh, and also as Obama.”

- Bunga?

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Thu, 24 May 2012 21:32:54 -0400

"He figured out that if he grabbed the foil and turned his face to it, and wedged his toes into a..."

Thu, 24 May 2012 08:32:42 -0400

“He figured out that if he grabbed the foil and turned his face to it, and wedged his toes into a crack in the foil, he could hold his position for a few seconds and a few seconds more. But that hurt his hands so he started to climb, around and around. The whole time he felt every spinning drop of water in his body. He puked on his shirt and so he took his shirt off and threw it down with his shoes. Then he spit, and felt relieved. It was still hot, stupidly hot, like he was in a microwave. He wanted some water.

When would he start to fall? Maybe never. Maybe he’d just float. Corners of the balloon had crumpled, but he didn’t look at them, and he shut his eyes to sleep. He’d wake up, hopefully, without puke on his face. He’d wake up in the air, alive. Arms loose as wings.”

- To your thirties, dear sister.

Gone are the urgent statements warning of melting glaciers and...

Wed, 23 May 2012 20:39:49 -0400

Gone are the urgent statements warning of melting glaciers and rising sea levels from 2009. Indeed, the energy and climate change page at Whitehouse.gov now shows a photo of the president walking and smiling in front of oil pipeline sections, and the White House never neglects an opportunity to tout its support for domestic oil and drilling and what it calls an ‘all of the above’ energy strategy.

Politics suck, blow.

drum-taps: Cecil Taylor—“Conquistador” Conquistador! (Blue Note...

Wed, 23 May 2012 09:33:03 -0400

drum-taps:

Cecil Taylor—“Conquistador”

Conquistador! (Blue Note 1966).

"Correction: In an earlier version of this article, the example involving “Midnight in Paris”..."

Wed, 23 May 2012 09:13:39 -0400

“Correction: In an earlier version of this article, the example involving “Midnight in Paris” mistakenly said a comma was needed after the name “Jessie,” rather than before it.”

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"In fact, a strong argument can be made that Facebook’s shaky start as a public company demonstrates..."

Tue, 22 May 2012 20:00:37 -0400

“In fact, a strong argument can be made that Facebook’s shaky start as a public company demonstrates that the entire I.P.O. process, which is supposed to spread the rewards to innovation, is broken.”

- John Cassidy in The New Yorker. He sort of addresses the big and questionable assumption at the heart of this sentence — that IPOs are about rewarding innovators and early investors — later in the piece, but this still rubbed me the wrong way. IPOs are now about extracting wealth out of a company instead of putting wealth in. This is the problem here, right?

Somehow, in all the media hype surround this stupid fucking IPO everyone forgot that Facebook didn’t need the capital for expansion, but had been sort of forced into the public offering due to SEC regulations (amended now by the JOBS Act). And after forgetting that, everyone was so stoked on the $38 price tag that they forgot that anyone not stuffed to the gills with social media kool-aid thought its market valuation was insanely high.

This IPO could be about nothing other than extracting wealth out of the company for early investors, because that’s what tech IPOs are like — but that’s not what capital markets are supposed to be for. I mean, right?

(via willystaley)

Word.

souleyes: Miles on the road, 1980’s by Norman Seeff

Tue, 22 May 2012 19:44:03 -0400

souleyes:

Miles on the road, 1980’s by Norman Seeff

"‘They’re both extreme groups,’ Tinley Park Mayor Ed Zabrocki said. ‘It’s extreme..."

Tue, 22 May 2012 10:21:38 -0400

“‘They’re both extreme groups,’ Tinley Park Mayor Ed Zabrocki said. ‘It’s extreme stances — the anti-racism group is against racism, against anti-semitism, against homophobia, where the other group is for white people only.’”

- Equivalences.

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Tue, 22 May 2012 01:02:17 -0400

When Coase Met Keynes

Mon, 21 May 2012 20:42:51 -0400

yfiles:

Two great economists cross paths:

RONALD COASE: I can tell you—I was helping when Britain was trying to get a loan from the United States immediately after the war, and I was talking to one of Keynes’s assistants. And Keynes came in the room and walked over to us and the man I was talking to us said, “This is Coase, who is helping us with the statistics. I don’t think you know him.” And Keynes said, “No, I don’t.” And walked off. And that’s my life with Keynes.

Good times.

Transaction costs.

"Dear Jill, Thank you for speaking with me several weeks ago and providing the helpful links below...."

Mon, 21 May 2012 18:07:00 -0400

“Dear Jill,

Thank you for speaking with me several weeks ago and providing the helpful links below. I sent a request for a verification in lieu of a certified copy of President Obama’s birth record to the Dept. of Health on March 30th. I was just wondering if you knew whether the request was received and how long it usually takes to process? Thanx.”

what-a-misunderstanding: What a misunderstanding!

Mon, 21 May 2012 13:05:57 -0400

what-a-misunderstanding:

What a misunderstanding!

drakemotel: :/

Mon, 21 May 2012 11:47:47 -0400

drakemotel:

:/

hoppip: Scene comparison of Victor Sjöström’s ‘The Phantom...

Sun, 20 May 2012 23:39:21 -0400

hoppip:

Scene comparison of Victor Sjöström’s ‘The Phantom Carriage’ (1921) and Stanley Kubrick’s famous scene of ‘The Shining’ (1980). (Link)