San Diego: About 1,000 protesters kicked off Occupy San Diego — a movement against what organizers called corporate greed — Friday as they marched from Children’s Park to Civic Center Plaza downtown for a rally, chanting “We got sold out. They got bailed out.” The demonstration, which is planned to last indefinitely, reflects similar protests [...]

As has been noted multiple times in the comments over the past few days, Shakira has landed herself a civil service job: President Obama has appointed Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll — the Colombian singer better known around the world as Shakira — to a presidential commission on education for Hispanics. If you are wondering why, [...]

Mmmmm you can find me in St. Louie Where the gun play ring all day (nanana) Some got jobs and some sell yay’ Others just smoke and fuck all day – St. Louie,  Nelly Just a reminder that nostalgia act Sarah Palin (remember her?) and that blackboard guy who used to be on teevee will [...]

  Shorter McMegan & Robin Hanson: The danger of Steven Jobs speech at Stanford is that, if everyone followed his advice, finding an adequate barrista who can make a passable latte would be simply exhausting and then I would have so much less time to share my brilliance with the world.  

Also too. About that wedding bit.

Sorry for the quality. They haven’t been very cooperative when it has been time for their close-ups. Because of the assortment of weird illnesses  that Fenway has been through in the last two years (including the oral eosinophilic granuloma that is once again making a guest appearance in his mouth), he is going to be [...]

John Donne: No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as a manor of thy friends or of thine own [...]

Grandma Grifter/Snowbilly Snooki/Caribou Barbie/Bible Spice (take yer pick) Sarah Palin is not running for President and now we will never have to hear about her or from her ever again for the rest of our lives. Ha ha. Fat chance. Like herpes  the Snowtrash Family Palin will never disappear and they and the ever-expanding brood [...]

Linus: There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin. Soon-to-be-former candidate for President and recreational pharmaceutical consumer Michele Bachmann was in her home state of Iowa Tuesday night to make an appearance at a Satanic Halloween pumpkin patch and maybe scare up some quick cash [...]

It’s always helpful to remember the kind of people we’re dealing with on Wall St.: “We are Wall Street. It’s our job to make money. Whether it’s a commodity, stock, bond, or some hypothetical piece of fake paper, it doesn’t matter. We would trade baseball cards if it were profitable. I didn’t hear America complaining [...]