There’s something wrong with me…
… because this gets funnier every time I see it.
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Central Washington offers the ultimate act of sportsmanship
ESPN – Central Washington offers the ultimate act of sportsmanship – College Sports
I really do believe that people are basically agreeable, if not outright good, though sometimes I feel like life assails that position. It’s nice to come across an article that supports rather than challenges that position.
Read it, and be reminded that people choose to do the right thing all the time, even when it might involve some personal sacrifice.
Thanks for the find, Jeff H.
When I say “earl gray” you say “yes please!”
Tea drinkers in the hizzouze, boyeeeeeeeeeeee
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“But so what?”
That’s the question our friend Katy asked when we were talking about reading Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma and the nature of our food production industry. Don’t get me wrong – it’s a fantastic question. And it’s hard to answer without regurgitating huge sections of the book, and even then it doesn’t necessarily answer the question about what do ti about it. Which is in no small part why he wrote his follow-up book.
Well, if you haven’t read the whole book here’s a talk Pollan gave that covers a lot of good ground about “so what.”
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from ‘My Familys Money’
Pet Monkeys – The Financial Considerations
How do you not love an article with that title?
jwz’s “twitteresque 62 character review”
Iron Man was so awesome that I almost wish I was sober for it.
awesome.
Wait A Second!: Informant can’t sue the police for drug bust gone awry
Wait A Second!: Informant can’t sue the police for drug bust gone awry
But the legal analysis is more complicated. In DeShaney, the Supreme Court ruled that “nothing in the language of the Due Process Clause itself requires the State to protect the life, liberty, and property of its citizens against invasion by private actors.” There are two exceptions to this rule: (1) where the government has a “special relationship” with the victim or (2) the government “in some way assisted in creating or increasing the danger to the victim.” However, even if the plaintiff satisfies one of these conditions, he can’t win the case unless the government’s failure to protect him was “shock[ing] to the contemporary conscience.”
Yup. The government does not owe you protection, even in situations they themselves created. Scary stuff.
Bond ratings, subprime mortgages and more at the New York Times
Below is a section from about the midpoint in of a Moody’s analyst walking the reporter through evaluating a security representing $430M in subprime mortgages to 2,393 homes in the Southern California area. 75% of the loans are ARMs and 43% lack any written proof of income.
from the article ‘Triple-A Failure’ in the New York Times
On the plus side, Moody’s noted, 94 percent of those borrowers with adjustable-rate loans said their mortgages were for primary residences. “That was a comfort feeling,†Robinson said. Historically, people have been slow to abandon their primary homes. When you get into a crunch, she added, “You’ll give up your ski chalet first.â€
I know this was meant to be a little bit of hyperbole, but to some extent I have to think it reflects some of they psycho behavior that led up to this mess. A package of subprime loans… and we’re talking about choices regarding primary homes, as if any notable group of these people have other properties? Certainly there’s a factor at play when it comes to attachment – the credit card companies have been making a lot of credit available to unemployed college students for years based on their psychological profile and view of keeping a good credit score as a sign of success. But suggesting that there’s some other similarly sized investment in most of the above borrower’s lives that they could prioritize lower is just… stupid.
Aye, brilliant
Tagged DAVEDAVE For sooth, open the pod bay doors, please HAL. HAL, I beseech thee. Dost though read me, not? Thy ears, it seems, are like yon portals barred T'entreaties from my lips, though said again. And yet again, O dost though read me, HAL? HAL, dost thou read me? Canst thou hear my call? HAL I hear you well. DAVE Praise God! Unlatch! Unlatch! And it just keeps getting better.