the otherwhirled

Executives of the Lehman Brothers’ Tokyo branch vainly attempt to discern the writing on the wall.

On the left, Lehman Brothers, and on the right, AIG. Any other analogies, you can decide for yourself, but the fence, I think, is obviously “reality”.

Seven years. And we are further away from our freedoms than we ever were, at the added sacrifice of almost the same number of soldiers as the number of civilians lost on that fateful day. We are not safer. We are not more complete. And we live under clouds of suspicion and mistrust for even so [...]

….and it’s not a unique one. I’m way behind on keeping up on my RSS feeds, but I’ve seen a couple of people posit this question, and I agree wholeheartedly. WHY THE FUCK DO WE KEEP TALKING ABOUT SARAH PALIN? Last time I checked, our Democratic candidate has some great ideas, insightful observations, and significant challenges to [...]

UPDATE: bad me, i should have included the original as well. I note as well, that the man on the left looks kinda like “Dude….Ah so wanna touch that gurl, but mah gran-pappy’d slap meh silly!”, while the elderly man on the right looks rather like, “Heh-heh-heh. We shore gawt thissun fooled! Stoopit kids! [...]