YOU NEVER GIVE ME YR MONEY

You may have noticed I haven’t been posting much about the $700 billion bailout. That’s because I’m not an economist. I know dick about economics. I barely understand it. And I couldn’t tell you if the bailout is really all that necessary or not.

However, the battle in Congress over the bill on both sides of the aisle has been sheer face/palm comedy from the start. And look, Jon Stewart has gone and saved me the trouble of having to write something funny and whip-smart yet genuinely angry.

Seriously, it’s been awhile since I’ve seen Stewart this riled. And why shouldn’t he be? The govt is about to hand $700 billion of tax money to a pack of stupid greedheads who will just fix their business, cash out their options and move on to the next big CEO salary package + bonuses. Tra-la-f***ing-la. Life is good when you don't have to account for yr actions, no matter how many people they hurt.

Little wonder no Congresscritter in his/her right mind wants their name on this bill a month before Election Day.

Best. Election. EVER.

Get it on credit,

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Something no record collection should be without:



Possibly Photoshopped. Possibly not.

What would Jesus use,

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HEAVY WEATHER 2008: HIGOS!

And welcome to the fifth typhoon to pop the top on a tall-boy can of Whoop-Ass® all over Hong Kong this year: Higos!



Seriously, in 12.5 years of residence, I have never seen this many typhoons draw a direct bead on us in one storm season. We must be setting a record of some kind.

Granted, I’m overselling this one. We’re at Standby Signal 1, but Higos is barely a Tropical Depression at the moment and isn’t forecast to be upgraded much higher than Tropical Storm. So really we’re just looking at a VERY rainy weekend.

Still, five direct hits in a year is one for the books.

FUN FACT: “Higos” is a Chamorro word for "Fig". Some sort of meteorological in-joke, then.

Blow away,

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THAT JOKE ISN’T FUNNY ANYMORE

ITEM: The Denver police union is selling humorous T-shirts that poke fun at protesters at last month's Democratic National Convention.



See, because police kicking the shit out of protesters exercising a constitutional right is really, really funny. Ho ho.

Rubber bullets in the face are also comedy gold.

Ha ha.

Can’t feel the beating,

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