Was (not was)

Fail blog shows signs and situations that fail to deliver the message. But you can’t get more accurate than this washed out sign of Washington Mutual (now known as “Was”).
Conspiracy theories:
1. Was it an irate employee?
2. Did Con Ed show their displeasure at not being paid the utility bills?
3, Are the Talking Heads behind this?
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Places You can see from Alaska

From our erstwhile graph jammers…

more music charts

Obama vs. McCain: The 4th debate

Just a night after the third debate, Obama and McCain met again at the Alfred E smith memorial dinner in Manhattan. The dinner only allows apolitical humorous speeches and pitted the two campaigners against each other. Perhaps a sure sign of a more mature democracy, the two candidates had some very funny jabs at each [...]

Lessons lessons lessons

Another article on lessons learnt, this time by Fareed Zakaria in Newsweek. In his usual balanced way, he articulates how this crisis may actually force Americans to kick the debt laden habits of old and get back to the basic economics of living: do not consume more than you can earn. And there is no [...]

Adhomukhasvasana (Downward Dog) in these troubled times

From a new tumblr blog: Sad guys on trading floors
http://sadguysontradingfloors.tumblr.com/post/53809722/this-is-a-yoga-posed-called-downward-dow-really

Credit crisis – The Blame game

McCain’s playing “pin the donkey”, Obama’s playing “it’s elephantiasis, stupid”, and the rest of the establishment is searching for a sitting duck. Wall Street execs, Fannie and Freddie, dishonest mortgage brokers, the Fed, Greenspan, derivatives, AIG, deregulation, CRA, short selling, rumors – all of these have been blamed so far. And we’re not done yet.
In [...]