Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Is This (World) A Joke?
It’s been one of those days.
Today I accumulated a trove in my daily trek for irony and surreality. More interesting than what most of the media has to say this week.
First of all, one of the morons over at gawker.com emailed me this. It was in response to my statement that it’s pretty obvious that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were the catalysts for the subprime meltdown leading to the bigger market meltdown. He’s no doubt protecting Barney Frank. He could’ve done something even more childish, I guess, such as change the subject by attacking me for not knowing what a credit default swap is, thereby making it look like he won the argument. Fannie and Freddie may have sold off a small portion of their subprime loans in the past year, but you don’t make drastic changes after eight years unless you know you made a major boo-boo. CDS’s may have bankrupted AIG, but they didn’t start the fire.
Secondly - and probably more important, really - the greatest band ever is about to make the biggest mistake ever. Yes, Led Zeppelin is the greatest band ever. Eight out of their ten LP’s are flawless, the other two are meant to be rough. That’s the way we like it.
More geniusnosity over at gawker:
McCain daughter Meghan: she blogs, she’s threatened to get a tattoo, and now she’s declaring herself punk as fuck when asked about her friendship with Linda Ramone, wife of Johnny from the Ramones—the band whose punk-rock ethics were offset by many of its members’ kneejerk Queens-bred working class Republicanism.
Um, sorry babe, but there were only four people in the Ramones, and only one of them was a Republican: Johnny Ramone. He’s dead, in case you didn’t know. These people are the reason blogs and blogging have come to suck. They’ve diluted it writing about every little thing in the world they know very little about. The tabloids are the worse. Stick to celebs, it’s all we can believe you about at least half the time.
The best for last: Hollywood insiders rip MSNBC, defend Palin
Tags: gawker.com, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, subprime meltdown, market, Barney Frank, taibbi, Led Zeppelin, McCain, Meghan, Ramones, Palin
