Correct me if I'm wrong, but the last time we did cross-border raids into an unstable Asian country, wasn't that Cambodia? I don't recall that working out all that hot.
Ole! Brazil has passed Germany as the worlds fourth largest car market. I'm certain that sales spiked as soon as convertibles started being referred to as "topless".
So I missed out on the eclipse. Because of it's combination with the winter solstice, today is being called the 'darkest day' in centuries. What did I do instead to commemorate the darkest day? Slept.
The most cursed musical ever? Have you been following the disaster that is the Spiderman musical? Here's the latest word on it...“You heard screams,” Mr. Tartick said. “You heard a woman screaming and sobbing.”
I suspect Mysterio. This has his fingerprints all over it.
One argument that supporters of the TSA regime make is that if you don't feel like having your privacy intimately invaded, you have options other than flight. For example, you could....oh. Guess not.
Behold the dastardly machinations of the egg cartel!
It looks like Haley Barbour is getting quite a bit of press for a pretty bad comment he made. Specifically, he told an aide that if he persisted in making racist remarks, he would be "reincarnated as a watermelon and placed at the mercy of blacks". Yes, that's a pretty insensitive thing to say. But for the sake of context, it's also something he said 28 years ago...As awful as the comment may be, I don't know that something said in passing almost 30 years past, deserves the level of attention it's receiving.
I'm going to say with some hesitation, that this seems good for consumers: The FCC will be enacting rules to ensure 'net neutrality'. It will be good for competition because it will prevent service providers from blocking competing online products or relegating those products to slow connection speeds. However, will it serve as an obstacle towards network providers expanding high speed coverage to more homes? I have no idea. However, if you like that video up there of Kim Jong Il riding a pony, you should probably be happy about this.
Maybe this is actually more important than it seems but is a federal breastfeeding policy really a regulatory priority right now?
Very interesting article over at the Economist on Nigeria's film industry. After Bollywood, it's the worlds most prolific, producing around 50 feature films a week. One thing that's very interesting to me is that a major reason for this quantity (I'm not in a position to speak on matters of quality), is a lack of intellectual property protections. About two weeks after the release of a film, almost every copy available is a pirated version. Because of this, movie producers have to constantly keep producing new and marketable product. Is this a good thing? Is it a bad thing? One could argue that if film producers were better able to control supply, they'd be able to garnish higher prices and thus produce better films. However, one could argue that absent the delivery systems provided the pirates, the market simply would not be reached and the industry wouldn't exist as it does.
And I think that's going to be my economic rambling for the day. Thoughts?
Let's pretend it's summer and read about barbecue shall we?
“Barbecue alone encompasses the high- and lowbrows, the sacred and the profane, the urban and the rural, the learned and the unlettered, the blacks, the browns, the yellows, the reds and the whites.”
Still shopping? Here are things to not buy for Christmas.
Happy Birthday Kropotkin!
Uh...Yikes? I'm going to call it early and say that this wins Creepy Mugshot of the Year, 2010.
Finally, because it's almost Christmas...
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