http://murderingmouth.com Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:59:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Interest? What interest? Forget saving - be an American and borrow! borrow! borrow! The Fed is comparing their experiment with quantitative easing to the (subjectively unsuccessful) actions of Japan for the past 20 years. But Japan had a positive trade balance and a positive savings rate when it began its zero-interest-rate journey. ... http://murderingmouth.com/2008/12/18/free-money/ Houses sure are cheap in Charleroi, Pennsylvania... Hmmm... http://murderingmouth.com/2008/12/17/mmmm-monongahela/ I'm surprised this is not bigger news. One in five American households (20%!) fell behind on utility bills last year and one in 20 (5%!) had their service cut. Who knows how bad this year will be. This points out a much larger weakness in the American budget than I ... http://murderingmouth.com/2008/12/17/wow-2/ It took me exactly 8 minutes and 46 seconds to walk from the gates of Embarcadero Station to Folsom & Spear (where I work) this morning... http://murderingmouth.com/2008/12/17/perfect/ ...Combines with one of the most liberal (former) members of congress to create some of my favorite politicians. Hmmm... http://murderingmouth.com/2008/12/01/the-most-conservative-member-of-congress/ I actually find this whole campaign quite touching and amusing - and I support it. Things like Prop 8 would not have been an issue in the first place if psycho bigots realized just how many of their coworkers, family members and associates were wicked sodomites. If you are able to, ... http://murderingmouth.com/2008/12/01/a-day-without-a-gay/ Exactly what makes a business 'too big to fail'? The Treasury has tapped more than two trillion dollars in new public debt over the past few months to save failing businesses, businesses that will still have to take drastic measures to stay open, such as cutting thousands of jobs and ... http://murderingmouth.com/2008/11/25/big-business-socialism-individual-capitalism/ I find it amusing how straightforward even its major supporters are about calling the nationalization of global financial risk a 'bail out', with its implication that criminals are getting out of jail. It's pretty fitting considering how much they've screwed up our country/world. What is especially destructive about the shenanigans in ... http://murderingmouth.com/2008/11/12/bailing-out-the-bailout/ It's odd... I have had the luxury over most of my adult life of spurning the idea of a "gay community" as something that I was alienated from and wanted nothing to do with. I felt a huge superiority complex over most homosexuals who felt the need to spend a ... http://murderingmouth.com/2008/11/09/gay-gay-gay-yay/ He's a fab guy, but he isn't going to fix the horrible things we've done to our society and our species. We have a lot of shit to do. Our nation's balance sheet stands somewhere in the region of -$50 Trillion. With a 'T'. That's over $10 Trillion in federal debt, ... http://murderingmouth.com/2008/11/06/a-message-for-my-generation/