Cause-->Effect

Bushonomics and Original Sin

Dustbiters
I can understand why, after Lehman fell, the Bush Administration panicked and pretty much shovelled money onto the Acela to New York. I don’t like the no-strings attached way they did it, but I don’t think it was done out of malevolence (unlike, say, the whole concentration camp thing). I think it was done because they were in unthinking “OMG We Have To Do Something” mode, and, combining that with the Republican belief that the wealthy are inherent virtuous, produced dumbness.

“It’s All Connections”
Stewart does Beck. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

And Now for Something Completely Different
Via Whad’Ya Know.

Creeping Technology
The fridge is not cooling properly. It’s stuck in defrost mode. The tech says it needs a new motherboard. Sometimes, plain old relay logic beats hell out of computers.

Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go
The Bushonomics Hangover continues. Bloomberg: Payrolls fell by 190,000 workers last month, compared with a 175,000 drop anticipated by the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News, figures from the Labor Department showed today in Washington. The jobless rate gained from 9.8 percent in September and exceeded 10 percent for the first time since 1983. One more time, this resulted from Republican policy. It was not an accident. It was the logical result of persisting in error.