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What Happens to Your Mortgage if Your Bank Fails?

I want this bike. I just don’t have $11,995.00. Crap.

It’s like a really bad Disney movie. The hockey mom from Alaska…is the president. She’s facing down Vladimir Putin using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It’s absurd.

– Matt Damon, 9/10-08

And thus the trailer was born.

Remix your Radiohead here.

Poetry Bailout Will Restore Confidence of Readers

Cultural leaders have come together to announce a massive poetry buyout: leveraged and unsecured poems, poetry derivatives, delinquent poems, and subprime poems will be removed from circulation in the biggest poetry bailout since the Victorian era. We believe the plan is a comprehensive approach to relieving the stresses on our literary institutions and markets.

Let there be no mistake: the fundamentals of our poetry are sound. The problem is not poetry but poems. The crisis has been precipitated by the escalation of poetry debt—poems that circulate in the market at an economic loss due to their difficulty, incompetence, or irrelevance.

This looks good.

They call it the dinosaurs dancefloor.

Why aren’t there any witchlawyers?

Folks, do your duty and support Dave Campbell Skateboards by buying some official merchandise.

“I think our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan will lead to further security of our nation, again, because the mission is to take the fight over there. Do not let them come over here and attempt again what they accomplished here, and that was some destruction, terrible destruction on that day. But since Sept. 11, Americans are uniting and rebuilding and committing to never letting that happen again.”

– Sarah Palin, September 25, 2008

You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not by the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

– Abbie Hoffman

Sarah Palin simply has no idea what’s going on.

This guy makes a good point–McCain might have had to grab headlines after this interview by ’suspending’ his campaign. If this interview went to prime time America would finally realize how inept and unqualified Palin is.

Oh, and it gets worse.

COURIC: You’ve cited Alaska’s proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?

PALIN: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and on our other side, the land– boundary that we have with– Canada. It– it’s funny that a comment like that was– kind of made to– cari– I don’t know, you know? Reporters–

COURIC: Mock?

PALIN: Yeah, mocked, I guess that’s the word, yeah.

COURIC: Explain to me why that enhances your foreign policy credentials.

PALIN: Well, it certainly does because our– our next door neighbors are foreign countries. They’re in the state that I am the executive of. And there in Russia–

COURIC: Have you ever been involved with any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?

PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth. We– we do– it’s very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is– from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to– to our state.

If you live in Alabama’s third congressional district, I highly suggest you vote for Josh Segall. He’s running against Mike Rogers, one of the the most conservative congressmen Alabama has ever had. You may think that’s a good thing, but it’s not when you realize Rogers has simply voted what his party asked him to regardless of the effects on his own district. For example, Rogers voted for CAFTA, which cost the third district thousands of manufacturing jobs. Rogers has supported tax breaks for big oil companies, and refused to vote for the new GI Bill and veterans’ healthcare funding. So far the only criticism Rogers has dredged up against Segall has been a false allegation that Segall’s money is coming from “Hollywood” rather than from Alabama voters.

If you want to learn more about Segall and his policies, The Opelika-Auburn News has just run a three-part series based on interviews with the candidate. Check it out.

PART ONE.
PART TWO.
PART THREE.

The 50 greatest villains in literature.

Not sure if I’d call the Judge from Blood Meridian a villain per se, but a great list nonetheless.

15 Things You Need to Know About the Panic of 2008.

Great essay on the Sept. 11 falling man.

Wow. It turns out that wiccans/pagans have their own version of the Boy Scouts. The Spiral Scouts aim to teach traditional woodland lore, camping, and outdoor living skills, as well as teaching “the many mythologies of the ancient world.” Now your kid can finally get that Samhain merit badge.

Speaking of the universe, Scientists have snapped the first images of a planet outside our solar system that is orbiting a star very much like the sun.

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