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I enjoy Photoshop Disasters, a blog that is exactly what the name says, but this post struck me for a completely different reason than the freaky arms. What struck me: the young woman’s look of accomplishment, of satisfaction, of sheer thrill. In an ad for a bank. Yeah, it’s just a silly ad. But really, […] Well, my legions of admirers–most of whom can hardly contain their incoherent praise of Viagra (seriously: grammar counts, even if you’re a spambot) should be happy to know that I’m back. I was away dealing with a bit of a financial situation; unlike many, mine actually had some larger economic significance, so I’ll post about […] Seriously, check it out: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/9pxt8/anybody_else_just_really_tired_of_trying_i_mean/ Well, as I’ve been saying, things seem to be getting better (or at least getting worse more slowly). But it looks like we could be in for another meltdown in a year or two. Adam Levitin shows how this time it won’t be subprime mortgages, but “option ARMs.” Option ARMs give consumers the choice of […] Okay, so I read the entire freaking health care bill (the July 14 version). Here’s a summary, along with some suggestions how to make it better. Yeah, it’s long, but it’s less than 1% of the original, so there’s that. First, here’s our current system, in a handy-dandy chart (unfortunately Dan is busy illustrating the […] In comix form, no less. Check out Tom Tomorrow at: http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2009/09/15/tomo/ There may, or may not, be a rash of suicides at France Telecom. If there is, it may, or may not, be due to management’s policies, which seem to be what we can call the American plan: Cut jobs to increase profits Work remaining employees harder to increase profits Give the profits to the shareholders […] So I read all 1018 pages of the health care bill (the July 24 version). I’ll summarize it in another post, but here’s a summary of the summary: There’s a lot to like in it. Most of the bill seems to have been written with care and thought by very knowledgeable people who genuinely want […] This blog involves analyzing (or, um, bitching about) various aspects of the economy that don’t work, so I thought I’d break things up occasionally by putting forward solutions to the things I’m complaining about. Some will be ones I’ve thought up, others will be other people’s good ideas that need more publicity. So here’s the […] We just got the August employment numbers; unemployment jumped from 9.4% to 9.7%. That sounds bad, but as I explained last month, the unemployment rate is a strange beast. In unsettled times like this it bounces around a lot, so it’s better to look at the sheer number of jobs lost. It turns out that […] |
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