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15 Jul 10Tax cuts for trial lawyers and tax hikes for everyone else.

My surprised look is somewhere around here...need a holster for that thing.

15 Jul 10The Daily Caller owns keitholbermann.com

Normally, I pretty much hate domain squatters. In this case, I'll make an exception. This is pretty damn funny.

14 Jul 10Steinbrenner's death in 2010 saved kids a fortune

I detest the Yankees and didn’t think much of Steinbrenner, but I’m glad his family won’t have to even entertain the idea of selling their team to pay a huge tax bill to the government. I absolutely hate the estate tax.

4 Jul 10Twidiot

Two years after letting loose a crazy tirade against sports bloggers for being profane children, Buzz Bissinger lets loose a childish, crazy tirade about how he is now going to be a profane Twitterer.

Sucks to have accomplished nothing since Friday Night Lights, you sanctimonious douche nozzle.

4 Jul 10Mac OS X Shortcut Keys

I have to think (and experiment) every single time I want to decipher one of these keyboard "shortcuts". Word. I have used a Mac since 2002 and still don't remember the silly symbols for option and control.

4 Jul 10FBI Busts Russian Spies

The FBI really refers to the Russkies as Moscow Center? Paging John Le Carre... Next up, their handler was really named Karla.

14 May 10Goldberg for Kaus

Well said. I've been a fan of Mickey Kaus since before his blog was on Slate. He is a stand-up liberal, a rare breed these days.

14 May 10NJ Gov. Christie Crushes Reporter

That.
was.
A W E S O M E.

11 May 10Dallas Braden's Perfect Game

One of the best blog posts this year, on any topic.

10 May 10The Atlantic Wire

Dear Editors: I’m a daily reader of your RSS feed. Please, for the love of all things holy, increase the font size to something legible. It looks like crap in Google Reader, NetNewsWire and Reeder. Thanks.

5 May 10Is Newsweek Toast?

Yes, I believe they are. I used to be a subscriber, and quit well before their recent experiment.

3 May 10How The Hell Did GM Pay Back Its Loans "in Full And Ahead of Schedule"?

They didn’t. Assuming that paying back taxpayer bailouts with different tax-payer money doesn’t count. Which it doesn’t.

28 Apr 10AZ Immigration Law Opponents Boycott Arizona Iced Tea...

...Which is brewed in New York. Retards.

26 Apr 10P.J. O'Rourke on A students

"The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews."

22 Apr 10Typography for Lawyers

Or pilots.

22 Apr 10DF on the Gizmodo/iPhone drama

Great article that can summed up thusly: Nick Denton is a dirtbag.

20 Apr 10Interesting Letterhead Designs | Letterheady

To think that once people wrote things on paper and send them via the mail. And how cool was the paper in some of those instances (via my brother).

19 Apr 10What Stormtroopers Do On Their Day Off

They are so misunderstood. (Via Airbag)

15 Apr 10History Infographics

More great work.

15 Apr 10Modern, Reductionist TV Posters

Brilliant. Love The Wire.

10 Apr 10USA Swimming coaches molested young swimmers managed to escape criminal charges. - ESPN

“36 coaches have been banned for life...” Screw waterboarding - drown their sorry asses.

10 Apr 10Chasing the Sound Barrier, in a Leap From 23 Miles Up

Balls the size of these.

8 Apr 10Bill Simmons: Finally on board the sabermetrics revolution

Nice article about the glorious use of statistics in baseball. (via kottke)

1 Apr 10Minimialist Star Wars Travel Posters

Awesome.

1 Apr 10The Lone Star Secret

Why is the foreclosure rate in Texas so low?

29 Mar 10Pirate Radio in London

Quite an interesting story.

29 Mar 10Bizarre NY Times 'Apology' to Singapore?

Interesting...all kinds of potential with this.

29 Mar 10Rosa DeLauro Is A Fucking Hipster

Check it.

29 Mar 10Obama's Broken Promises

For future reference

29 Mar 10 Nazi scandal engulfs Human Rights Watch

That their “military expert” was a little too large a fan of Nazi memorabilia is one thing, but I'm shocked—shocked—to learn that these human rights organizations are concerned with ~~some~~ one nation’s abuses more than others.

29 Mar 10Dems challenge CEOs who talked health-care costs

Companies are financially obligated to report their costs, and for doing so, they'll get hauled before Congress. What a farce.

Update: More from Ben Domenech

26 Mar 10Jeff Jacoby: No place for race

My census form: American

24 Mar 10David Mamet's Master Class Memo to the Writers of The Unit

Mamet rules.

24 Mar 10The People vs. George Lucas

Judgement for the plaintiff.

24 Mar 10Breaking the Enigma

In-depth history of the breaking of the German Enigma code during Word War II.

24 Mar 10Warthog

Michael Yon with the Baltimore ANG in Kandahar. I deployed with them to Iraq in 2007. Fine Americans. As is Mr Yon, for telling theirs and so many other stories.

23 Mar 10The Great West Coast Newspaper War

Two alt-weekly papers duke it out in San Francisco over a dying media format. Comedy.

15 Mar 10Why Isn't Obama Afraid to Take on the Teachers' Unions?

There is not much I like about Obama. But if he follows through and tells the teacher's unions to pound sand, that would be some hope for our nation's youth.

7 Mar 10Michael Lewis' The Big Short

Very long excerpt in Vanity Fair. I've been waiting for this book for a long time.

7 Mar 10NY Time goes after Scientology

Two words: utter fraud

7 Mar 10Why we can't get rid of failing teachers

One word: unions

1 Mar 10A Graphic History of Newspaper Circulation Over the Last Two Decades | The Awl

Stunning, really. The slope of the LA Times line is frightening.

1 Mar 10What if author bios were brutally honest?

So true.

21 Oct 09Photoshop Lightroom 3 Beta

Not the Gmail kinda beta either. Intrigued by the new import window...

UPDATE: Crap...Intel processors only. My G5's days are getting numbered.

9 Oct 09NBC Sucks

They cancelled Southland before it even aired an episode this season. The one show I was looking forward to. Solid work, you Hollywood douchepumps...see ya at the Free Polanski rally.

9 Oct 09The Yankees Suck

And the ridiculous Legends Suite is a good reason why.

28 Sep 09Enough Already

With the silly articles about/relating to Dan Brown and his new book that are written in the style of... a Dan Brown book.

28 Sep 09Obama Uses Feds to Protect His ‘Green Jobs’ Fantasy

Those shifty Spaniards are not helping with the narrative. They must be crushed.

24 Sep 09Eight Days

The article is not available online unless you’re a New Yorker subscriber, so find a way to get ahold of the Sep 21 issue and read James Stewart’s outstanding article about the crucial week last year at the heart of Wall Street meltdown. I wonder if we'll hear anymore about this quote from then-Treasury Secretary Paulson about GWB:

“People don’t want to hear this. They don’t like him. They want to see him as disengaged. But he was very focused on what was best for the country.”

22 Sep 09The NYT: We Suck Less

Barely. Although there is something to be said for setting low, but achievable goals and failing to meet them.

14 Sep 09Vanished...and Caught

Evan Ratliff wrote an article in Wired about people who disappear. He then disappeared and there was a $5000 prize to whoever found him. The full story will be in the December issue.

14 Sep 09The Final Days of Merrill Lynch

Fascinating inside look on Bank of America's merger with Merrill Lynch. The meddling of the government, specifically the Treasury Secretary and the Fed is troublesome. Other note of interest: Congress and others in government had a total coronary about AIG's $165 million in bonuses. Merrill paid out $3.6billion on over 15 billion in losses and not a peep.

14 Sep 09Counterfeiting II

Crazy dictator with a penchant for bling and nukes + international credit rating even Fannie Mae would choke on = waaaay more than $7 million in funny money.

14 Sep 09Counterfeiting I

Career criminal+ determination + Staples card = $7 million in funny money

14 Sep 09Making of an Agent

Interesting article about a Secret Service training class.

9 Sep 09shitmydadsays

Quite possibly one of the funniest things I have seen on the Internet.

3 Sep 09Serenity Now

Man loses a pile of money to Bernie Madoff. Man's wife has affair with Bernie Madoff. Man's wife writes a book and goes on talk shows about it. His reaction to all of this is not what you would expect.

2 Sep 09Pinboard - antisocial bookmarking

Delicious is so last year. I have been toying with a new social bookmarking tool called Pinboard. Very clean and simple. (via DF )

27 Aug 09The National Endowment for the Art of Persuasion?

Obama administration using NEA to help move it's message. Besides the obvious impropriety of this, it also seems mighty dumb. I'm willing to bet that folks opposed to Obamacare aren't going to change their mind based on what the NEA or artist community says, paints, sings, performs...or whatever.
UPDATE: NEA Communications Director lies about his involvement and then gets fired

27 Aug 09Still 'Crazy'

The first political writer I ever read was P.J. O'Rourke, in tenth grade, back when he wrote for Rolling Stone (!?). Twenty years later, he still has it.

26 Aug 09 Cheating the App Store

PR firm writing iTunes App Store reviews for their clients' products. I'm just shocked and stunned in disbelief.

24 Aug 09Designing With Web Standards, 3rd Edition

Update to the first book I bought on the topic of web design. If I hadn't, I would probably still be using somebody else's blog template. And that would be lame. Arriving this fall.

22 Aug 09Cash-for-Clunkers a Trend Item?

Well, since Cash-for-Clunkers turned out so swimmingly, nothing to worry about in terms of health care. The government blew through a billion bucks without sneezing, squaring away 1/6th of the economy should be a puss game

22 Aug 09Senator Kennedy Wants the Rules to Replace Him Changed--Again - WSJ.com

Well of course he does. Everyone knows the rules change when the political landscape does.

21 Aug 09Mega Nuclear Option

First Congress, now the President? Jonah Godberg has some interesting questions.

21 Aug 09Dollar ReDe$ign Project

What's in your wallet? Compared to this, it's kinda lame. Nice work.

21 Aug 09Personas | Metropath(ologies)

Very, very cool.

21 Aug 09Guide to the Most Epic FAILs in Star Wars Design

My addition: a throatpunch to the Empire defense contractor who sold Vader military vehicles on legs, like the AT-AT Walkers. Defeated by loops of wire. Not nearly as bad as it's younger siblings, rendered silly by rolling logs and Ewoks.

20 Aug 09How Astroturfing is Taking over Local Activism

Interesting article. And by interesting I mean all examples of astroturfing in the article are of a conservative variety. Not a single mention of ACORN, MoveOn, etc. I guess your chosen method of political discourse isn't really genuine unless you come dressed as a giant puppet.

20 Aug 09How To Fly Without ID

"Agents were informed directly by the FAA that they absolutely could not bar an American citizen from boarding a plane, even if a passenger refused to produce any identification at all." I had no idea - although that doesn't mean I would try this on my next trip.

18 Aug 09NASA is a jobs program.

Let me go find my surprised look. I'm willing to bet that NASA is by far not the worst at this. (Via Instapundit)

14 Aug 09Secrets of Magus

One of the best articles I have ever read. I now know why I like David Mamet - because he's friends with Ricky Jay. (Via Daring Fireball)

13 Aug 09The Nuclear Option

National Review's Jim Geraghty on an interesting twist regarding health care reform: is passing this legislation so important to some of the more senior members of Congress that they vote for it, regardless of the consequences at the ballot box? Or will self-preservation prevail?

12 Aug 09Netflix Magic

Neat behind-the-scenes story at a sort-of-secret Netflix warehouse

9 Aug 09House of Reps Buys Jets

Hope and Change? Draining the swamp? Whatever...we got places to go and coach isn't going to cut it.

6 Aug 09North Korea's First Family

Exhibit Z in the continuing clown act

6 Aug 09Learjet Repo Man

Fascinating story of the go-to guy when expensive private jets don't get paid for. Business is probably good for him these days.

24 Jul 09Meltdown at AIG

If Michael Lewis, of Moneyball fame, wrote the phonebook, I would read it cover-to-cover. Here he is with a fascinating article about the AIG trainwreck.

23 Jun 09New York State Senate in 'Chaos'

Everyone get in line for their new floppy clown shoes. I've seen kids' playgrounds more squared away than this.

23 Jun 09Sullivan Descending

Here's the definition of a cliche: I used to be an avid reader of Andrew Sullivan, but then I gave up ... insert reason here. For me, it was when the moral equivalence became suffocating and ridiculous. He did answer an email of mine once, though.

17 Jun 09You'll go by whatever I call you

Liz Liz Liz Liz You Suck Liz Liz Liz Liz...Epic Douche Fail.

21 May 09Newsweek to become an opinion magazine

Isn't this old news? I cancelled my subscription years ago and this pretty much guarantees I'll never get another one.

15 Dec 08Film Addict

I scored 51.3 %.

12 Nov 08Assembler

Cool timewaster of the day

20 Sep 08Rep. Charles Rangel (D)

Douchebag.

16 Sep 08Procrastination Flowchart

Otherwise known as my "my day."

16 Sep 08Cooliris

I linked to this previously when it was known as PicLens. Still one of the coolest things on the web, and now available for Safari.

13 Sep 08David Foster Wallace, RIP

How sad. DFW was one of my favorite non-fiction writers, footnotes and all. I wasn't a huge fan of his fiction and I never tackled Infinite Jest, but I was blown away when I read his 1996 tennis essay in Esquire. Ever since then his articles on topics ranging from cruise ships, talk radio and usage dictionaries (another fav) have been excellent. How depressing there won't be anymore of them.

20 Aug 08Interesting story...

...about what happens to the actual Olympic medals that get taken away from an athlete, for whatever reason. Interesting side note: while I had a vague idea of the controversy involving the US men's basketball team losing the gold medal in 1972, I did not know that to this day the US has refused to accept the silver medal and the medals remain in a vault in Switzerland.

20 Aug 08World Records Over Time

Pretty nifty infographic from the NY Times charting world records in various sporting events over time.

27 Jul 08New Order Channel on YouTube

My favorite band of all time. I first heard them back in 8th grade when Substance came out. Too bad they broke up last year for what appears to be the final time.

21 Jun 08PicLens