Another good reason for you all to check Patti’s website daily:
Patti Smith’s “iTunes Originals,” a full-length set of new performances, classic tracks and revelatory interviews debuts exclusively on iTunes on Tuesday, January 8. Structured around new interviews and performances recorded at New York’s Electric Lady Studios in the spring of 2007, the 90 minute “iTunes [...]
Archive for January, 2008
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
Paul Krugman
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What I Learned from the New Hampshire Primary
Published by January 9th, 2008 in Politics. 0 CommentsThe Republicans in New Hampshire would prefer a viable candidate to a guy they wouldn’t mind going to church with. John McCain is the closest thing to viable they have.
The Independent voters of New Hampshire helped Hillary recover from a surprise punch in round one. She entered New Hampshire fighting and pulled out a win [...]
The republicans have been very successful in creating “wedge” issues that divide us into pro and anti forces of almost religious devotion. Anti-abortion v. pro-choice, anti-taxes v. pro-social responsibility, fanatically religious v. pro-separation of church and state, etc. These false dichotomies have crippled our political process.
The example I’m thinking about as I write this post [...]
Iowans like Barack Obama because he’s so fresh and so clean clean.
Iowans like Mike Huckabee because he’s born again crazy.
I always wondered what the “H” in “Jesus H. Christ” stood for…
now I know.
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Unshackled - Set your iPhone free
Published by January 4th, 2008 in Miscellaneous and Technology. 1 CommentA friend recently showed me his iPhone. It was no big deal, I had my own in my pocket. But then he showed me the NES games he could play on it. Mine didn’t do that…
So, a couple nights ago I went about unshackling my iphone. The key to unshackling an [...]
I bought a whole lot of albums again this year from many different genres. I think I ended up with around forty that were released in 2007. Here’s what I’ve chosen for my top twenty:
1. GRINDERMAN: I picked this as the best album of the year because it’s one of the most daring. GRINDERMAN is [...]
“As the mortgage market has become more segmented and as risk has become more dispersed, market discipline has in some cases broken down and the incentives to follow prudent lending procedures have, at times, eroded.”
– Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, December 18, 2007
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