The Great Depression in the United States began on “Black Tuesday” with the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and rapidly spread elsewhere. The market crash marked the beginning of a decade of high unemployment, poverty, low profits, deflation and lost opportunities for economic growth and personal advancement in the United States. Although the causes of the Great Depression are still uncertain, the basic cause was a sudden loss of confidence in the economic future. The traditional explanation is a combination of high consumer and business debt, ill-regulated markets that permitted malfeasance by banks and investors, growing wealth inequality, and natural disasters such as the Dust Bowl and 1926 Miami Hurricane creating a downward economic spiral of reduced spending and production. The initial government response to the crisis exacerbated the situation; protectionist policies like the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930, rather than helping the economy, merely strangled global trade. Industries that suffered the most included agriculture, mining, and logging.
was actually good. It very clearly (though pessimistically) described the issues in a way that anyone giving a fuck could understand… and he read it like a big boy.
This scares the fuck out of me.
Bush sounded like the 7th grade suck-up who tries too hard when reading from his history book. My inner conspiracy theorist is worried that Cheney wrote this book a few years back…
Liberal or conservative, just thinking of government involvement on this scale should make your genitals ache. Before you know it they will take our bourbon. They’ll sell it only from one counter at each DMV for one hour a day. It will only be legal to transport it in an opaque, grey, plastic bottle. Money will have no value so you’ll have to pay for it by burning yourself with a cigarette you’re not allowed to smoke. Even the hardiest servants of the motherland will work approximately 2 months pushing turbines in order to earn one cigarette.
Meanwhile, just across the border, Canadians will crowd and pour their whiskey over the frosty-nippled chests of their most pale and chubby co-eds. Sub-standard, yet plentiful booze will drip from their hairy beaver pelts, bidding us to immigrate.
Republican Jesus, I pray that I will be strong for thee.
My opponent in this campaign has served this country with honor, and we all respect his sacrifice. We both want to do what we think is best to defend the American people. But we’ve made different judgments, and would lead in very different directions. That starts with Iraq.
I opposed going to war in Iraq; Senator McCain was one of Washington’s biggest supporters for war. I warned that the invasion of a country posing no imminent threat would fan the flames of extremism, and distract us from the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban; Senator McCain claimed that we would be greeted as liberators, and that democracy would spread across the Middle East. Those were the judgments we made on the most important strategic question since the end of the Cold War.
Also: Iraq Cost $900 Billion Anheuser-Busch cost: $50 Billion
=> We could have turned every country in the middle east into a giant brewpub for the cost of the Iraq war.
There’s no terrorism in brewpubs!
Note: I haven’t tried any of this yet, but the internet says it works…
AT&T hotspots (found at all Starbucks and Barnes & Nobels I’m told) now give free wifi access to iPhones (pronounce it as ip-hone if you like confusing people).
The way they determine if you’re an iPhone is by asking for a valid iPhone number (you probably know someone) and checking your browser’s user agent, which can be easily changed.
To change your user agent in safari, go to Preferences > Advanced and check “Show Develop menu in menu bar”. Once you have the develop menu all you need to do is select Develop Menu > User Agent > Mobile Safari 1.1.3 - iPhone.
To change your user agent in firefox, simply enter about:config in the address bar. Filter for useragent, double click on the general.useragent.extra.firefox key and add “Mobile Safari 1.1.3 - iPhone” to it.
Led by District 1 County Supervisor Gloria Molina, the L.A. Board of Supervisors has passed new restrictions that will effectively eliminate taco trucks from our streets. Under Supervisor Molina’s new rules, taco trucks will have to change location every hour, or face a misdemeanor charge carrying a $1000 fine and/or jail. Yes, jail.
This seems (at first glance, I’m tragically uninformed) to just be an effort to crush a very useful and delicious industry. I may usually be drunk when I assess how delicious said industry is, but if I keep deeming it worth all that pain in the morning, it must be pretty damn good.
On April 21st (is this old news?), the candidates for President of the goddamn United States of America pandered to the fans of WWE Raw.
The pithy title is thanks to filmfemme, and I want to clarify that WWE fans should be allowed to vote. However, I do hope that any of them that can be swayed by such forced antics have six-too-many Miller High Lifes and sleep through election day.
Witnessing this kind of half-hearted, shape-shifting prostitution really hurts my ability to enjoy the half-hearted hj I get when they’re looking good. (How could I resist McCain in a Pretty Woman wig holding a bottle of free hotel lotion?).
This is why market segmentation needs to be done carefully, so I don’t feel like a WWE fan who just saw a Miller ad aimed at gay dudes.
Whilst eating one of Carl’s Jr.’s new, super-delicious Cap’n Crunch shakes, it occured to me that perhaps the cereal I’d thought to be shaped randomly for so long was actually meant to look like captain’s bars.
Since the internet could not verify this, I went to the Cap’n Crunch website and asked them directly. Here is their response:
Cap’n Crunch is “only” a commander. His stripes are not captain’s bars. He’s called the Cap’n because he commands the Guppy. It’s just coincidence that the cereal is shaped like captain’s bars.
However, it’s shaped like that to better hold the crunch and flavor that so many love. So the shape has a purpose, but not to look like captain’s bars.
We hope that this is not too convoluted for what is a simple answer.
Jeff
Quaker Consumer Response
For some reason the clarity and depth of this response pleases me greatly.
Edward Lorenz, pioneer in chaos theory and father of the “butterfly effect” died yesterday at age 90. The media is saying the cause was “cancer”, but I just know it was that time in 3rd grade when I went 23 times around the merry-go-round instead of just 22. I bet 22 times would have somehow prevented them from making that shitty movie too.
