• February 13, 2012

wall st.

What do you have to do these days to become the director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection? The precedent set by Keyboard Cat and Mike Gravel is quite clear: You need to make a musical YouTube video, something the kids can “grind to.” But Elizabeth Warren doesn’t have time for such trifles, and [...]

Obama is demanding that the companies that received the most bailout money pay their highest-earning employees 10% of what they normally do. [New York Times] Oh here’s something new: everyone is worried about getting sick but is too lazy and/or too terrified to actually get a flu shot. [Washington Post] The weird Jett Travolta/Bahamas were [...]

A BROKEN RECORD named Osama bin Laden released another tape. To review, likes: Islam, recording audio tapes, routine; dislikes: America, Israel, insolence. [Times Online] China is forcing the Chinese to pay very high taxes on, let’s see, American-made chickens and car parts. This aggressively random move is in response to Obama’s announcement on Friday that [...]