No, really:
The title of the lecture is “From Ayn Rand to Ken Feinberg — How Quickly the Paradigm Shifts. What Should Be the Rationale for Government Participation in the Market?” We guess he will talk about how different New York would be if he could take down Wall Street and whatnot. That and/or prostitutes. [Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard] [Office of the Arts at Harvard]
[Wonkette via Mother Jones]
The wrestler in the video is Glenn Jacobs (a.k.a. Kane), a hardcore Ron Paul/libertarian/Austrian economics fan. He even blogs about those things here and here. Given that Linda McMahon is running for the same seat that former Ron Paul adviser Peter Schiff wants, putting two and two together is easy. Kane saw the neo-con oozing out of McMahon years ago and tombstoned her. The “storyline” was just a cover.
Now McMahon is getting her revenge by becoming the anti-freedom establishment candidate, or so says diehard Austrian Lew Rockwell:
The powerbrokers who run the Republican party in the US and CT want to stop Peter Schiff’s run for the federal senate against Crook Dodd, so they are ginning up the campaign of the very wealthy Linda McMahon, head of the World Wrestling Federation, since the other Republicans are such losers.
Duh. After all, is it really a coincidence that McMahon’s announcement comes when the latest poll shows Peter Schiff getting a whooping 1% of the vote among Republican primary voters? [Capitol Watch] To be fair, Dodd is failing so miserably that another poll shows Schiff almost neck and neck with Dodd were Schiff to become the Republican candidate. [Rasmussen] This is a big if now that Linda McMahon is there to use all her wrestling monies to ensure the power elite maintain the Connecticut seat. Or maybe she is a zooprise Ron Pauls kandidates that will split the neo-con vote in half and give Schiff the victory or something. Let the internets debate begin. [Ron Paul Forums]
The real question is: who will be McMahon’s partner in her tag team match against Kane and Schiff at WrestleMania 26?
Kane and Ron Paul in happier times.
The recent JibJab video portraying Barack Obama as a superhero is probably the best Obama caricature floating around the Internets. Watch:
This video awoke some memories. Last year we designed Kitsch-Posh’s HOPE Comics series [OMG Kitsch-Posh]. We worked only on one issue because we figured that Obama would lose (no, not really; one of us wrote the issue at 3AM when he couldn’t sleep). This was also before Obama appeared in Spider-Man and other comic books. Since we don’t like to recycle old content too often, we have given the comic an alternate ending with an alternate font. See if you can spot it:
Obama Water:
It’s too easy to make a religious joke about the concept of “Obama Water” so we won’t even try.
Remember this hilarious video (we had posted it) of Barney Frank whipping it out on the House podium?
We didn’t really know or care why the other guy thought the minimum wage bill was such a big deal for American Samoa. But then recently this came up [Reuters]:
Chicken of the Sea, the tuna company, announced this month that it will close its canning plant in American Samoa in September. The culprit is 2007 legislation in Washington that gradually increased the islands’ minimum wage until it reaches $7.25 an hour in July 2009, almost double the 2007 levels.
In 2007, the hourly minimum wage in American Samoa for fish canning and processing was $3.76 and the minimum wage for government employees was $3.41. Shipping had the highest minimum wage, at $4.59. Garment manufacturers got the lowest, at $3.18 an hour. A $7.25 wage is a substantial increase for most residents.
Chicken of the Sea will lay off 2,041 employees—12 percent of total employment, almost half of all cannery workers. And the 2,700 workers at StarKist, the other American Samoa tuna canning company and Chicken of the Sea’s rival, are probably concerned that their jobs are the next to go.
From This Week with George Stephanopoulos:
We have been writing about this for several months. This particular graph shows M0 through the decades.
As you knkow, America now has big worries about her supply lines into Afghanistan due to the Khyber Pass being targeted by the enemy. Is History ever going to get bored of the old Khyber Pass Stole My Empire meme?
According to this article , here are the worst presidents in American history (in descending order of crappiness) [CNN]:
A couple of weeks old but it doesn’t have too many views to show for, especially considering the sheer degree of awesome which is this video [Nancy Pelosi's YouTube Channel, via somebody's LJ]: