13 Comments

Remember fat lids? Sure there were too many seeds in the bottom (sometimes) but still...

Expand full comment

Huh? The same TARP that was <a href="http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program" target="_blank">signed into law by U.S. President George W. Bush on October 3, 2008</a>?

Expand full comment

and a kickass song to boot.

Expand full comment

EXACTLY!

Upfist x 100 for you, sir!

Expand full comment

Or Medusa's.

Expand full comment

When I worked in St. Thomas, we bought cold beer from a soda machine on the dock (I think it was fifty cents a can), Jack Daniels was about $1.25 a bottle - and cigarettes were a quarter a pack.

That's what no sales and excise taxes can do for you. I still have the Rolex I paid a couple of hundred dollars for.

And no, it wasn't pre-WW II. Why do you ask? It was in the early '70's. The 1970's.

Expand full comment

Is that Paul Dean's Mom?

I don't think it's fair to call that a sour look - it's the only look she's got.

Expand full comment

Damn lazy students should just live on rice and beans.

Expand full comment

Let's say a sucker signs up at one of those fancy for-profit "colleges" and starts taking courses paid for with big student loans.

The institution goes BK, the debt has been sold to a third party, the "credits" can't be transferred because the school wasn't accredited - yet the debt remains to be repaid, and can't be discharged by BK (although that's how the school went out of business).

What a clusterfuck.

Expand full comment

While your in the area Mr. President, you should pop into Paula Deen's restaurant and ask her how that law suit is going. She would appreciate seeing you.

Expand full comment

For profit corporations are people too ... until it's time to go broke. Then, magically, they stop being people and start being special. Just ask Bain Capital.

Expand full comment

She's totally gonna match Joe Wilson in fundraising now. Thanks, Bammerz.

Expand full comment