Wow – AIG bailout, a 4% drop in the market, and Morgan Stanley talking about merging with Wachovia. Interesting times. Sure none of you has a good oil industry idea – as mentioned earlier, I am increasingly convinced of the peak oil hypothesis (http://theoildrum.com/)? Anything thesis that has as one of its central tenets that the Gulf states are liars has to be on the road to something…
Krugman:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/worse-than-ever/
National Review always was a bit odd:
http://www.dmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?nm=Core+Pages&type=gen&mod=Core+Pages&tier=3&gid=B33A5C6E2CF04C9596A3EF81822D9F8E
Gratuitous lie from our friend Sarah. Back in the Saddam days – even before Baghdad Bob – I remember someone making the case that Saddam’s lying was the ultimate proof of his strength. It wasn’t the 1984 answer, where the power worms its way into your mind; rather, Saddam insisted on stuff you knew couldn’t be true just because he could, because the fact that you couldn’t let yourself dismiss such a stupid lie diminished you, the listener. I find this one of the hallmarks of the Bush administration (and, to be fair, Hillary): “I’m just going to say this and you are going to sit there and take it because there is nothing you can do about it”.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/17/17756/8965/82/601976
And if you are growing up in Wasilla, AK, I think you should be free to do whatever it takes to pretend you are not in Wasilla.
http://gawker.com/5051160/do-christians-care-whether-bristol-palin-smoked-pot
