balloon boy
The new way to “get rich and famous” in America involves doing something tacky and sort of illegal, and getting the Main Stream Media to do a few thousand stories about it, and then …. profit?
Obama is just pretending to have any sway within the Obama/Hamid Karzai powercouple. [New York Times] A bunch of people in the Army were very encouraging of Nidal Hasan’s religious phase, and some even suggested he take college courses about Islam. Should we purge the Army of anyone who self-identifies as a “supportive friend” too?? [...]
Big Oil and Big Natural Gas are fighting, like they always do! It’s about energy policy, like it always is! [New York Times] David Axelrod and all his friends are preemptively very offended—on behalf of America—by Wall St.’s big bonuses. [Washington Post] Pakistan soldiers cornered a bunch of Taliban people in South Waziristan, which is [...]
Bank of America lost $1 billion—and your Wonkette editor’s debit card!!—in the third quarter. [New York Times] Do not read this, keep thy heart pure: Boy in the Balloon? Likely a publicity stunt. [New York Times] A weak dollar is good news for things that are made here and exported elsewhere. This is an important [...]
OH YAAYAYAYYAYAYAY THANK FREAKING GOD! The balloon boy is alive and at his home, the CNN just said. SIGH. We thought he had fallen from his balloon and that everyone knew this and was just not willing to admit it. But he’s ALIVE okay? He was in the attic above the garage, WOW, GOOD WORK [...]
