October 2008
24 posts
Iceland has formidable international reach because of an outsized banking sector...
– Iceland Teetering Too and possibly upsets NATO by getting a loan from Russia.
(Yes I’ve been a little Iceland-centric lately. It feels like Lost. We have to go BACK.)
"All I Smell Is Raw Power And Speed" →
David Letterman talking about two of my favorite things; Volvo station wagons (my first car was a 240DL) and Paul Newman.
I'm Rich!
“If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago, you would have $49 left.
With AIG, you would have less than $15 left.
With Fannie Mae, you would have $2.50 left of the original $1,000.
But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drunk all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling refund, you would have $214 cash.
Based on the...
There are two types of people in the world: those who can’t tell the difference...
– John Gruber (via jstn)
Still the best Saturday Night Live political sketch ever. Bush the 1st v. Dukakis.