man how my blood boils

Ireland now finds itself in quite the conundrum (thank you china and the stimulus package because you're responsible for a lot more jobs (sustaining of course) than anyone will ever give you credit for) after pursuing the types of austerity measures that, despite the dissent of a certain world leader, the g20 has agreed to pursue. so tip your hats to Ireland all you self made supply side economists but just look what common sense has done for Ireland (where they'll be lucky to lure international investment for the next 20 years). I'm sure those are the people who will come crying for the middle and lower class if the U.S. or Europe find themselves in similar situations. see for yourself:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/business/global/29austerity.html?pagewanted=1&ref=global-home

A Few Brief Thoughts

"She said the theme of this party is the industrial age, and you came in dressed like a train wreck."  thank you Craig Finn for this gem.  i can no longer listen to a Hold Steady album without hearing multiple lines that make me say "God I wish I could write something like that."

for example, "Hey citrus, hey liquor, I love it when you touch each other."

shouldn't the Cubs be the winner of the BP Cup?  they are the ones who couldn't stop the run leak.  then today the send the Carlos Marmol robot out to plug the leak and he bumped into a pipe and it erupted again. they seem a much more fitting recipient.

also, here is a good image.  enjoy.

wicked

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gotta love the chi sheezy

http://www3.timeoutny.com/chicago/blog/out-and-about/2010/06/the-autumn-defense-at-lincoln-hall-live-review-and-photo-gallery/

bluebirds fall

i found this article most interesting, not because of its author, but because it answers the annoying among us who use spanish, greek, and portugese debt as reasons to pursue potentially devastating fiscal policy. coincidentally those budget "wise" representatives of yours are probably using these same populist notions to pander to the ever increasing fiscal populists among us.

Krugman "That 30's Feeling"

also if you like baseball my guess is you will be watching the white sox tonight.

edit: the desire to hate the current president has now become tangible (although i'm sure plenty others have felt this way for awhile). joe bartons comments are at the very best indefensible, yet, to no surprise of my own, there are people defending him. absurd.

Micro Rants

to those of you who work in sandwich shops -- and you know who you are -- you must remember your purpose in this life is to make a sandwich that i will then eat.  if you put some things on it with your left hand and some with your right in order to save yourself a couple seconds which you can spend beating your head on a wall in the back, you have made two halves of one sandwich, neither half being what i ordered.  that is all.

also, if you were to ask me, "Brian, how do you take your coffee?"  my response is going to be, "in a cup."  i take my coffee in a cup.  i like or enjoy my coffee black.  that is all.

to all the critics

it takes a lot of gall to go after an oil company and then moments later try to restart a sales pitch for national energy reform. more importantly the significance of this administrations intent to set up an escrow fund to pay for the damages of the oil spill cannot be more understated. a brief look at, sadly the now second largest environmental disaster in U.S. history, yields the importance of setting aside BP's funds to pay for all legitimate claims.

"Exxon fought paying damages and appealed court decisions multiple times, and they have still not paid in full. Years of fighting and court appeals on Exxon’s part finally concluded with a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2008 that found that Exxon only had to pay $507.5 million of the original 1994 court decree for $5 billion in punitive damages.And as of 2009, Exxon had paid only $383 million of this $507.5 million to those who sued, stalling on the rest and fighting the $500 million in interest owed to fishermen and other small businesses from more than 12 years of litigation."

a blanking supreme court decision. for all you math wizards thats 10 cents on the dollar. i'd go so far as to use the phrase "common sense would suggest that" the presidents actions in this case should be enough to win over the support of the entire affected region.

full article here>http://climateprogress.org/2010/06/15/the-exxon-valdez-spill-bp-escrow/>.