Monday, October 13, 2008

Cheap blogging crutch - 10.13.08

Just a few scattered points of rage to season your Italian Genocide Day.

936 Points and a Cloud of Dust
Sure, the Dow rallied in record form today, but according to Brandon Fuller at Slate's Big Money, we shouldn't be paying nearly as much to the DJIA as we do the TED Spread.

The Whores are All Right
According to the New York Daily News, the economic downturn hasn't hit hookers all that hard. Economists predict the profession's relative stability will contribute to gains at such varied industries as lower Manhattan hourly motels, Trojan, and penicillin manufacturing.

Ted Stevens is Bulletproof
FiveThirtyEight has the Alaska Senate race between Democrat Mark Begich and Republican home improvement enthusiast Ted Stevens at a statistical dead heat. All I need to know about Alaska I learned from its citizens' reluctance to abandon a guy indicted by a federal grand jury on seven counts of ethics violation.

Sure, but Consider our Source
Media Matters points out that, in a blatant contradiction of their own reporting, both the New York Times and Associated Press blindly regurgitated Sarah Palin's claim that Obama was "palling around with terrorists."

An Opportunistic McCain ACORN-holing
Alongside the "Obama and Ayers hold hands" and "We're starting over" narratives, the McCain campaign has been drilling Obama over his ties to community advocacy group ACORN. Trouble is, Johnny and ACORN used to be tight before Rick Davis made that big list of "Things you need to hate now."

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