Comments on: Bank of America Burns Tax Dollars on Wanton, Debauched SuperBowl Orgy

By: nojo

nojo — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:27:00 +0000

@HillRat: Don't mind me, just fixing your link...

By: HillRat

HillRat — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:23:40 +0000

This started out as a comment, but it got a little long-winded so I put it up on my blog as a post. Enjoy!

By: FlyingChainSaw

FlyingChainSaw — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:48:35 +0000

@Prommie: No, his stuff was entertaining and disdainful but if it had never been published there would have been no loss of insight or knowledge about how our society works. In another life, I read a large collection of his works and was struck at how fluffy it all was, disdainful, amusing, but ephemeral. Hells Angels was a useful interrogation of contemporary tribal cultures but after that, the body of work becomes ever more self-indulgent. When I compare the contemporary non-fiction I prize, works by Alfred McCoy, James Bamford and Greg Palast and the reporting of Seymour Hersh, to HST's confections I just feel sort of embarrassed for the guy.

By: Mistress Cynica

Mistress Cynica — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:18:17 +0000

@blogenfreude: See, there's your proof that they're cutting back due to the current economic climate. Never say these poor brave souls didn't sacrifice.

By: Prommie

Prommie — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:43:08 +0000

FCS, where were you at the moment of HST’s death? Did you feel anything unusual, strange, at that time?

By: chicago bureau

chicago bureau — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:16:03 +0000

Incidentally, word is that the Mets new ballyard is getting de-named on account of the whole, you know, financial collapse thing.

By: blogenfreude

blogenfreude — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:29:49 +0000

Thousand dollar an hour hookers? Eliot Spitzer scoffs at a mere thousand an hour.

By: AARPrick

AARPrick — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:47:20 +0000

@SanFranLefty: Yes, indeed. FCS understated and restrained writing style is so effective in it's ability to illuminate and inform. @drinkyclown: Obviously that underwear was designed for a even much bigger peen, hence all that baggy at the "toe".

By: redmanlaw

redmanlaw — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:53:25 +0000

@CheapBoy: Here in New Mexico USA, now-disgraced Gov. Bill Richardson called our state legislature into a special session and brow beat them into giving out a $450 million tax rebate. Mrs RML and I got about $50 each. I think she intercepted mine. Anyway . . .

Fast forward to the current session. Budget shortfall. Guess how much? $450 million. Oops.

Could have been worse. He might had had to address the issue in confirmation hearings but pulled out once a “pay for play” scheme emerged and became the subject of a federal grand jury investigation.

BTW – Daschle has to go. He’s been a leader in the Weenie Wing of the Demrat party rolling over for Boosh since 2000, so fuck him. Bring on The Scream.

By: CheapBoy

CheapBoy — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:35:20 +0000

I’m getting free money!! Yes FREE MONEY!!

All right it’s only Australian dollars, but our Govt. has gone crazy-ape bonkers, and is giving every taxpayer who earns under $80,000 the useful sum of $950!!

I’m getting free money under the Government’s latest economic stimulus package which is about 13 billion of free money to taxpayers, pensioners, and other worthy types, including parents of school kids (who get a payment per child as well as their own payment) It’s raining money here!!

The whole package is worth about 42 billion, including 6.5 billion dollars on public housing and 15 billion on schools. To steal the headline from a current affairs program here “It’s a carpet bombing of cash”

FREEEEEEE MONEY!! And what’s even better it’s my patriotic duty to spend it!!