gordon gecko lives

“The injunction of Jesus to love others as ourselves is an endorsement of self-interest,” Goldman [Sachs]’s Griffiths said Oct. 20, his voice echoing around the gold-mosaic walls of St. Paul’s Cathedral, whose 365-feet-high dome towers over the City, London’s financial district. “We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieving greater prosperity and opportunity for all.”

Greed is good! Just don't get caught...

how tired am i?

A checkout clerk just asked if I qualified for the senior discount.

I'm 43.

why i left the south

and moved to the Pacific Northwest:


via Yglesias.

i can't decide whether i'd prefer alan grayson as our next AG

or as Obama's second term VP:



Rep. Broun, I believed you just got served:

caught yet another barf bug

and have been out of commission since Friday. Only benefit was I got through most of Jon Krakauer's Where Men Win Glory: a wonderful, horrible read about Pat Tillman's decision to leave the NFL for the Army Rangers after 9/11, and all that BushCo did to use him and abuse his family after his friendly fire death in Afghanistan.

Truly, it is to read and weep. Tillman was an atheist, liberal-minded, fantastically intelligent and thoughtful football player who joined up with his younger brother Kevin out of patriotism after 9/11 despite not trusting Bush. Iraq sickened him, but Afghanistan still seemed like the right war, and he died there from pure army fuckup. Tillman's potential was enormous and his death is so pointless as to make a mockery of everything we have been trying to do in Afghanistan over the last 8 years. Obama would do well to read Krakauer's latest.

special for kim

josephine baker and so much more

Baubles for gods and goddesses alike.