It's all about the Benjamins

Dear J. Crew: I know that you’re sorry about pissing me off because you made your sizes too small for a few seasons. I appreciate that you’ve been trying to make it up to me since Christmas by listing more clothes than just dress shirts in XL-Tall and XXL. You’re even selling the only pair of [...]

I AM AN EXPAIIIIIIIRRRRT?! Yeah, so thanks to one of the cool kids from Hardizzle, Ian Thomas, I got a chance to play the hottest Ben Bernanke simulator around: The Bailout Game. On the first play through all you haters ought to know that Our Bennyfactor stemmed off the the recession, only spent about 30% of [...]

So I was reading this article on slashdot about how paypal reneged on a bunch of payments to Indian subscribers, essentially because Paypal pretends not to be a bank and the Indian central bank is turning the screws. At least, that’s why according to this slashdotter Naturally the first thought to my mind and that [...]

Ever since I moved to Norfolk I’ve always thought that traffic was terrible and that these people drive like idiots! Turns out I’m freaking right and here are the statistics to prove it: Most likely place in Va. to crash is Hampton Roads (Virginian-Pilot) Oh, and here’s some delectable morsels: On average, there’s a traffic accident in [...]

Did you know that there are people out there who don’t believe that people drank alcohol in classical antiquity? Did you know that these people probably call antiquity “Bible Times” but never distinguish between classical antiquity of and the Late Bronze Age, which are so totally like 800 years apart? And plus in the Late [...]

So I was perusing a great publication by the European Central Bank today, entitled “Price Stability: Why is it right for you?” On page 16, it starts with a nice little anecdote about the history of the word money. Well, hey! I know that EU documents are printed in a bunch of languages. While cognates [...]

By your refusal to say ‘Happy Holidays’ I will understand you to be engaging in a War on Ben Lamb’s Birthday and also sort-of Thanksgiving and New Year’s. These are integral parts of the True Meaning of December (parties and Christmas tree smell and snow), which is the moral bedrock of our society and also [...]

So since Wednesday there’s been a hurricane-based weather pattern bearing down on my dumb house here in Norfolk (called a Nor’easter primarily because the press has been full of pseudo-folksy baloney for over a century), which I initially decided to use as for a parody of those TV-news “live remotes” with some idiot standing on [...]

No, not President Obama. Bob McDonnell has been shown in polls to be the likely winner of the Virginia gubernatorial election since as early as February 4th of this year (Rassmussen Poll, see section 3), so that’s no suprise. The Republican candidate for king of the nation’s trash-heap, you-know-whaddi-mean had been trending above Corzine since [...]