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"At the time, Mr. Bloomberg said he was not concerned about the higher rents that the $5.4 billion..."

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:22:00 -0500

“At the time, Mr. Bloomberg said he was not concerned about the higher rents that the $5.4 billion price would require. “You always feel sorry for those who can’t afford it, but those who can afford it say, ‘What about me?’ ” he said.”

- God bless every self-declared liberal who voted for him.

Top Ten Reasons to Vote for Mike Bloomberg

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:08:22 -0500

peterfeld:

7. He’s kept crime going down without the Mussolini-like police tactics of Giuliani. There have been no mayorally-sanctioned police hate crimes like Diallo, Louima and Dorismond.

Well, as long as Mike didn’t sanction Sean Bell and Michael Mineo, I guess he’s fine. Though retaining Ray Kelly no matter what happens (I know, I know, he gets results, dammit!) seems like a tacit endorsement of whatever shit goes down. Like, you know, refusing to turn over any documents relating to the GOP convention (or was that also ok because it just involved infringing on the rights of dumb hippies who ran red lights?), and all that illegal domestic spying. (did you argue the merits of warrantless-wiretapping?) It should probably be more explicit: a vote for Mike is a vote for having your community policed by a paramilitary counterintelligence agency that operates entirely without mayoral oversight.

This is only the second-most disgraceful thing about Bloomberg, obviously, this pretending to be better than Giuliani while the NYPD continues to do do whatever it wants without consequences. Personally I still find the 40,000 people in shelters thing a little more upsetting.

"Literally Any Human Being Not Named Michael Bloomberg" Wins Coveted Gawker Endorsement

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:16:48 -0500

"Literally Any Human Being Not Named Michael Bloomberg" Wins Coveted Gawker Endorsement

WHITE HOUSE VISITOR LOG SHOCKER

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:06:21 -0400

WHITE HOUSE VISITOR LOG SHOCKER

placesweusedtogo: My weekend football predictions. Call your...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:18:13 -0400

placesweusedtogo:

My weekend football predictions. Call your bookie now.

Rams at Lions final score: 5-5. That’s my lock of the week.

“The first couple of days will be the usual mess. But I...

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:48:29 -0400

“The first couple of days will be the usual mess. But I think you’ll find readers will contribute unexpected things” —Nick Denton

Did you hear the one about the Minister and family doctor who killed a half-dozen people selling a...

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:34:24 -0400

Did you hear the one about the Minister and family doctor who killed a half-dozen people selling a phony cancer cure on Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s tv channel?

Late to this, but

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:31:34 -0400

youngmanhattanite:

Rex/Pareene, do you take issue with Jay Chrepta calling Minneapolis “the Upper West Side of Middle America”? Because I would.

Jay Chrepta commutes from 83.7% white Rochester, which is sort of the Greenwich of Minneapolis.

soupsoup: Twins bandwagon, here I come! (until opening day...

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:48:52 -0400

soupsoup:

Twins bandwagon, here I come! (until opening day 2010)

This adorable fellow — T.C. Bear — became a Twins mascot in, according to Wikipedia, the year 2000, well after the point when I’d feel the need to defend his generic mascot-ness based on childhood nostalgia. But! There is history: he is basically a straight rip of the adorable booze-shilling bear mascot for Hamm’s beer, the Hamm’s Beer Bear. Hamm’s is best known today for being the beer some guy on Mad Men wasn’t drinking, one time.

The tragic story of Hamm’s is the same as the tragic story of every other middle state-intoxicating mid-century brewery, and it’s ably told in this great Salon feature.

Anyway! Go Twins! What a fucking game.

Sporting News

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:12:57 -0400

Moe and Peggy Noonan and I are guest-editing Deadspin today!

rendit: ronghorse: The Replacements-“Can’t Hardly Wait”...

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:27:32 -0400

rendit:

ronghorse:

The Replacements-“Can’t Hardly Wait” (Outtake Acoustic)

It’s that staggering, ghostly call-and-almost-response at the end that really seals the deal.

This was recorded, if I remember the story correctly, in a ventilation shaft. Surprisingly, their recording sessions with Chilton “producing” did not yield an album’s worth of releasable material.

Can’t wait for this to make Drudge! (Also, to be fair, the...

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:37:19 -0400

Can’t wait for this to make Drudge! (Also, to be fair, the 18-year-old autistic victim was probably a filthy lying ACORN.)

ninety9: Why is it so hard to find election results? I mean, I admire that the Times did 531 posts...

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:12:03 -0400

ninety9:

Why is it so hard to find election results? I mean, I admire that the Times did 531 posts about yesterday’s primary (and only 300 of them were by Sewell Chan), but how hard is it to make a page called ‘Results’ and then, you know, putting numbers in it?

NY1!

Guys I am increasingly convinced that THE INTERNET staged this,...

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:24:52 -0400

Guys I am increasingly convinced that THE INTERNET staged this, for the lulz.

"The book chugs along on the fumes of innuendo for 40 pages, until, at last, we arrive at Chapter 2,..."

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:00:07 -0400

“

The book chugs along on the fumes of innuendo for 40 pages, until, at last, we arrive at Chapter 2, the piquantly titled “Bitter Half: First Crony Michelle Obama.” The beloved first lady, we learn, “was literally born into the Chicago political corruptocracy.” It is here we start to discern the true intent of our avid narrator “Michelle Malkin”: She is crafting a scathing satire of feminine envy.

In fact, she can’t help casting herself as a kind of doppelgänger. She, too, is a woman of color, a mother of two, a no-nonsense breadwinner. As she sets out damning aspersion after aspersion, the reader starts to catch on: It is “Michelle Malkin” who should be our first lady! Instead, she has been forced to scrap out a living on racial self-hatred and frantic opportunism.

”

- “Glenn Beck is the future of literary fiction”

tehblogs: Before this dives further into the pit of non...

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:30:44 -0400

tehblogs:

Before this dives further into the pit of non sequiturness, let me link to this interesting piece from Gawker on ‘Birthers are the New Truthers but kind of more stupid and definitely more racist. Ok that’s not really the title, but that’s the general gist of the article.

That headline is literally a zillion times better and this person should probably be my editor.

YOU LIE!

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:10:03 -0400

YOU LIE!

And then Emanuel told Wilson to go home and get his shinebox.

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:45:23 -0400

An incensed White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel went up to GOP Reps. Roy Blunt (Mo.) and Paul Ryan (Wis.) to complain about the outburst. “No president has ever had that happen,” Emanuel said. “My advice is he apologize immediately. You know my number.” [Milbank]

ninety9: josephweisenthal: ninety9: johncarney: “…our national life expectancy ranks 42nd...

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:54:24 -0400

ninety9:

josephweisenthal:

ninety9:

johncarney:

“…our national life expectancy ranks 42nd among all developed nations. We spend more on medical care that any other nation, and get less than 41 of them. These figures are pretty clear.”

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Roger Ebert’s Journal: Archives

(via dminkin)

This is the clearest example I’ve seen of the longevity bias. Health care should not be judged by life expectancy alone.

Um, easy enough. Pick a basket of metrics that you think we should measure it by: the only one we lead on is spending per capita, so it doesn’t really matter how you weight them.

Check out recovery rates for injuries. Check out surival rates for people with cancer. Those are two that I know of.

We could do this all day - the point being the gap in per capita spend is NEVER matched by a gap in performance. We are at best 5-15% better in some categories, but our spending is 30% or more higher than all the countries we narrowly outpace.

I think you’re forgetting that we have the best health care system in the world, Nic. And also 9/11.

Are pumpkin spice lattes the bacon of September '09?

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:34:45 -0400

Are pumpkin spice lattes the bacon of September '09?:

maura:

Just trying to get a handle on things here.

Can’t wait for my reality to be augmented with tags and shit! So psyched!