The Vig

HT: Wired.
Double hat tip:  Pete in Parkrose.  He knows why.
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If you haven’t seen the video, it’s definitely worth watching. Not only for the turkey, but for the endless nonsense that comes out of Palin’s mouth. Does she honestly believe that after 8 years of George W Bush, this country is still over regulated? We’re watching the stock market crater in part [...]

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Apparently the Green Dragon will be no more by Monday.  I was planning to go back and chase the green fairies around again.  I guess that won’t be happening.
*Sigh*
Why can’t we keep our nice things?
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Wordstock is this weekend, and while the focus is on John Hodgman, I’m looking forward to seeing William Least Heat-Moon.  Pete in Parkrose turned me on to him back when we were young 20-something idealists.  I’ve probably read Blue Highways a half dozen times over the years.  It’s never gotten old for me.  Heat-Moon will [...]

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More importantly, Will Ferrell for president.
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Robert De Niro’s character Ace Rothstein in Casino, one of my all-time favorite movies, was based on Rosenthal.  USA just showed the movie yesterday.  Don’t know whether that was planned or not.  Either way, Rosenthal was as much an innovator as he was a bad guy.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal has much more here.
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Back in the day, Enron made a big deal about hiring every last top-flight MBA they could get their hands on.  They built a heckuva braintrust which they used to manipluate markets and come up with some fantastic accounting schemes.  The MBAs were among our best and brightest.  They sold themselves out for a few [...]

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A guy tries to have it his way.
The owner explains why he can’t here and here.
Okay, we don’t do espresso over ice. Why? Number one, because we don’t do it. Number two, because we don’t do it. Mostly for quality reasons. Also, because more than half the time, it’s abused (Google “ghetto latte“).
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As most anyone over the age of 20 knows, life isn’t so much about who you are, it’s about who you know.  In my case I know Rick Emerson.  And when he announced, after a little prodding by yours’ truly, that he would be having the two-time Nathan’s Hot Dog eating champion Joey Chestnut on [...]

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TMZ has posted some mildly titillating pictures of soon-to-be-former-Miss Washington Elyse Umemoto.  I say mildly because they’re really not anything out of the ordinary for anyone who’s spent five minutes on MySpace or Facebook.  The only thing that maes them special is the fact they’re of Miss Washington, someone for whom we hold a higher [...]

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