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halloween is coming up.

October 6, 2008

halloween is coming up.
do they celebrate halloween everywhere?
am i ignorant?
is it a u.s-only holiday like thanksgiving or presidents day?
halloween is, without question, the best day of the year in nyc. the weather's usually just starting to get cold.
everyone dresses up(even bus drivers and subway station clerks and the guys making
sandwiches in the deli). and the halloween parade is invariably awesome.
for the last 10 years i've wanted to be corky st. claire for halloween. and for the last 10 years
i've failed in putting my corky st. claire costume together(mainly because it requires a goatee).
perhaps this year i'll be able to get the yellow sweater vest and the bad toupee and the depressing
goatee and finally be able to be corky st. claire for halloween.
oh, when i was in l.a a few days ago i saw that trashy lingerie(for which you need a $1 membership
in order to enter. i got mine in 1992)had a very ambitious halloween window.
ambitious and scary. here's their window.
only 3 weeks to halloween.
oh, you know what would be a REALLY scary halloween costume?
president palin.
you could have one hand on the button and the other hand leading your pet dinosaur down the street.
moby

Last night during the debate joe biden got choked up at one point

October 3, 2008

Last night during the debate joe biden got choked up at one point, and was for a brief second on the verge of tears.
A friend of mine asked me 'why did joe biden get choked up?'
Well, Joe bidens first wife was killed in a car crash, and both his sons were badly injured. He was sworn into the senate from his sons hospital bed, and he was a single parent for many years.
As a result he has taken the train from his house to washington every day for the last 24 years so that he could be at home with his sons every morning and every night(the train from delaware to dc is now called 'the biden express').
Moby

did you see this?

October 3, 2008

did you see this?
equal parts horrifying and cringe-worthy.
my butt is more qualified to be vice-president than this woman.
it's not just that she doesn't have the right answers, she doesn't
even understand the question.
and that she thinks that somehow repeating the same platitudes over and over
again will fool people into thinking that she's answered the question.
mo


ok, financial markets and bailout.

September 30, 2008

ok, financial markets and bailout.
this might not make me very popular, but although i don't like it, i support the $700,000,000,000.00 bailout.
why?
because it will prop up our banks and investment houses long enough for real reform
to implemented and it will keep the u.s and global economy from sliding into depression.
if more banks and investment houses fail you'll see a severe recession and possibly
a depression.
and this effects everyone.
the reason that people start businesses and create jobs is because they have access
to capital.
the reason that people buy houses or renovate houses is because they have access
to capital.
if people close businesses or stop buying or renovating houses they will stop
creating jobs.
people will be fired. unemployment will skyrocket. retirement accounts will dry up.
more mortgages will be foreclosed on.
and the world will head towards severe recession or depression.
this bailout isn't bailing out fat-cats on wall street, it's protecting local businesses
in iowa and kansas and sacramento.
it's protecting shakey mortgages in idaho and florida.
it's protecting retirement accounts in alaska and maine.
it's protecting your job. it's protecting your neighbors job.
wall st screwed up. seriously. the collusion between the different financial service
providers has been disgraceful and dangerous.
and securitizing high-risk mortgages was, in hindsight, a disastrous idea.
wall street screwed up.
but to let the banks and investment houses fail and to let the dow and the nasdaq(and the ftse
and the dax and nikkei, etc)plummet is to create a crisis that will effect every person on
the planet(the global depression of the 20's and 30's, resulting from protectionist trade practices, caused world war 2, for example).
the republicans(and some democrats) in the house of representatives(most of whom know nothing about global
markets and finances)have made a huge mistake in not supporting the bailout.
to be clear, no one likes the bailout, and no one is happy at the thought of having
to use taxpayers money to buy up crummy securities.
but it's a necessary evil, and to let the banks and investment houses continue to fail
would have deleterious consequences that people can't even begin to imagine.
again, not just for bankers and brokers, but for you and your friends and your grandparents
and your children.
the markets do not exist in a bubble, and to pretend that they do is to exhibit a dangerous lack of understanding of how the global economy actually works.
if the gop in the house don't pass the bailout they won't be punishing wall street, they'll
be punishing you and your friends and your family.
moby

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