The greatest rock band of all time. Unfortunately, I think time has taken its toll on Bono’s voice; there’s a bit of 2004 Pedro Martinez in watching someone who is very good but once was phenomenal: This week on Letterman: Two decades ago, in Rattle and Hum:
Archive for March 6th, 2009
Losing Your Fastball
Posted in Baseball, Music, Television on March 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Bury the News
Posted in Corruption, Meltdown on March 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Just in time for no one to notice, this late Friday article in the Journal listing some of the beneficiaries of $50 bn from AIG. Remember, if AIG had folded and we had intervened directly to prop up the going concerns (Goldman, Deutsche, etc), we would have received economic interests in the going concerns. By [...]
Iowa. Yes, Iowa.
Posted in Basketball, Foreigners, Soccer on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If there’s one thing I think of when I think of Iowa, it’s corn. But if there are two, it is corn and emotionally volatile people: One father in particular went off. First, he called the officials “complete idiots.” Then, he started detonating alphabet bombs throughout the gym. Thirty seconds into the game, my ref [...]
Surely They Know This
Posted in Foreigners, Meltdown on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The folks in the Administration surely read the Times, and they seem to have no problem getting the advice of experts. So why do they keep proposing strategies they know will not work? From the Krug: By using taxpayer funds to subsidize the prices of toxic waste, the administration would shower benefits on everyone who [...]
