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A Great jab at a financial pundit by tech pundit, "The Macalope":

Which is strange because he wasn’t always concerned about where the money comes from. Like back in September when he suggested that taxpayers would gladly open their wallets even further to make the angry Wall Street volcano god stop erupting. Shorter Douglas A. McIntyre: buying things for yourself = risky and irresponsible. Buying things for Wall Street brokers = prudent fiscal policy.

For the record, the Macalope bought two iPhones and he pays off his credit card bills every month. So the brown and furry one doesn’t need some Wall Street scold to lecture him financial responsibility.

From JibJab:

from Armed and Dangerous:

Dispatches from the Iranian cyberfront

I’ve spent the last seventeen hours living inside a cyberpunk novel. A libertarian cyberpunk novel. It’s been a weird and awesome experience.

Don't send for Superman, Captain America, Nick Fury, or Sgt. Rock. Nope, the superhero that's symbolizes foreign aid to Iranian protesters would be wheelchair bound hacker, Oracle.

Remember when Obama was being compared Jimmy Carter in a negative manner?

We've seen this sort of behavior before - from a president who eventually had to give up his office.

It looks like those were the "good old days" for the President.

Quote from Bill Wilson at the Washington Times

via Instapundit

…I've turned the background of this blog's header, green.

Re: Letterman's ill advised joke.

To: Letterman:

This is what happens when you lose perspective on political humor, and you parse every public appearance or utterance for potential mockery. The groanings you heard from the audience during a Top 10 list on Sara Palin should've been a hint that you're drifting away from actual comedy and into “Two-Minute Hate” territory.

To: Conservative critics of Letterman

Be careful, some of you are overplaying the outrage. Overplaying the word "rape" in your critiques is one example. His intended target was the 18 year old daughter. Just because it actually was the 14 year old at the game, and if she were to be impregnated by an adult, it would be statutory rape, does not mean you can imply that Letterman was joking about the rape of a teenager.

This and other excesses in the criticism of Letterman come across more as political posturing, trying to attack those who dare criticize Gov. Palin. Some will counter that you are trying to squelch opponents. And keeping up with demands for Letterman's repeated apology and one in a manner you'd prefer, you are treading close to that territory.

To: The National Organization for Women

It's well known that you're more of the National Organization for Liberal Women, so it is refreshing to see you speak out on this issue as you have. I may cringe a bit as you try to judo this back on conservatives, but at least it's in the form of a call for consistent civility, and not just selective outrage.

To: Allahpundit

And it's good to see a conservative take up the civility challenge that N.O.W. put out. If this keeps up, we may actually end up with civility in politics yet!

My original Blog, Asbestos Den is now no more. With the move to Movable Type, I've merged the archives of both blogs.

These posts will be in the AsbestosDen.org category (the only category I have set up).

Robert P. Murphy at the Ludwig von Mises Institute: “Consumers Don't Cause Recessions” a rebuttal of Keynesian economics.

via Consumerism Commentary's“The Paradox of the Paradox of Thrift”

After trying out SquareSpace, I determined it really wasn't for me. It's a good service. Great if you have a need for a lot of bandwidth. But some of the limits of the system there forces one to limit what you can do, or shell out more money to be able to do them. Again, if I had a huge demand for the site, I'd have no worries as I'd be paying for the pricier plans for that purpose anyway. But I don't and so I'm over here.

But it did give be the bug to get serious into web design. So I've returned a Movable Type based blog. All the good fonts and styling that I'd created, will be rebuilt here, with improvements, over time.

I'm trying out the CSSEdit program to edit stylesheets on the Mac. It seems to be the desktop equivalent of what Squarespace did online for design, and more.