Archive for February, 2008

  • cool

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fd-MVU4vtU

    English Translation:
    To the candidate who is Barack Obama
    I sing this corrido with all my soul
    He was born humble without pretension

  • The pros

    Team Clinton: Down, and Out of Touch
    That Clinton’s spokesman is taking his cues from late-night comedy is as good an indication as any of where things stand in the onetime front-runner’s campaign. To keep the press from declaring the race over before the voters of Ohio and Texas have their say next week, Clinton [...]

  • Buyer’s remorse

    Spending by Clinton Campaign Worries Supporters - New York Times
    Nearly $100,000 went for party platters and groceries before the Iowa caucuses, even though the partying mood evaporated quickly. Rooms at the Bellagio luxury hotel in Las Vegas consumed more than $25,000; the Four Seasons, another $5,000. And top consultants collected about $5 million in [...]

  • The Clinton machine blows a fuse.

    A Clinton surrogate, a Dem divide? - First Read - msnbc.com
    Tom Buffenbarger president of the machinists’ union (International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers) was the the latest in a string of Clinton junkyard dogs unleashed upon Obama. Prior to Hillary Clinton’s speech last night in Youngstown, Ohio, Buffenbarger delivered nothing short of an [...]

  • Monday afternoon in Slackerville

    Fifi, Gus, Yo-Yo, Boots and Fuzzy.

  • the subprime mess explained by stick figures

    Subprime Explained - Google Docs
    Language a bit strong, but a very lucid explanation and grimly funny.