Postings from the blog hijacker

3 things Anne did yesterday that shows she's not a baby anymore

1. She saw me sweeping the living room floor with the broom and she went into the kitchen to get the dust pan and brought it to me.

2. We were playing outside and I noticed she needed a diaper change so I said, "Lets go change your diaper." She opened the front door and walked inside to the bedroom to her changing table.

3. At bedtime, Sarah, Noobie and I were reading a picture book to Anne and when we asked her to show us the banana picture she was able to point to it!

Because I dont give enuf props to the NYT when they get it right, I have to point this one out.

The Nation - Too Big to Fail? - NYTimes.com

Brilliant last graf.

The same NYT piece that Tanta takes apart here has been on my mind for the last day, and I was not able to develop a coherent opinion on it.

Calculated Risk: Duelling Discourses of Debt.

I suggested "Haggard in '08" a few days ago. Can we amend that to a "Haggard/Tanta" ticket?

My opinion.

Haggard for president '08.

On the "Silver Buck" platform.

Sing us back home.

Now THIS is funny. IMHO.

A cartoon from the rut.

Well, this is probably NOT the way to end the mommy wars, but the article is full of gems (hateful to one side or the other, i mean) like this....

The article from which this is drawn-- and from which I predict there will soon be emanating flame wars lasting a decade or more-- is here:

Why aren’t the women who are outnumbering men in undergraduate institutions leading the information economy? “Because they’re dabbling,” she snaps. Here’s yet another Problem That Has a Name: Frida Kahlo.

Everybody loves Frida Kahlo. Half Jewish, half Mexican, tragically injured when young, sexually linked to men and women, abused by a famous genius husband. Oh, and a brilliantly talented painter. If I was a feminazi, the first thing I’d ban would be books about Frida Kahlo. Because Frida Kahlo’s life is not a model for women’s lives. And if you’re not Frida Kahlo and you major in art, you’re going to wind up answering the phones at some gallery in Chelsea, hoping a rich male collector comes to rescue you.

As Woody Allen’s own Whore of Mensa would sigh and pencil in the margin, “Yes, very true!” And don’t we all know them, those defiant, dreadlocked young lovelies with their useless degrees in studio art, experimental fiction, modern dance, and gender studies, lactose-intolerant and unemployable: “I choose my choice! I choose my choice!”

You really have to read the whole thing. However, if you dont have any Y chromosones, then you might want to set down the coffee so you dont spit it onto the keyboard in anger and/or laughter.

The Anglicans show the future of Christianity is in the global south.

FIRST THINGS. The Anglicans at Lambeth: What’s at Stake:

"...the average Anglican today... is a black woman in Africa, under the age of thirty, who supports three children on a salary of two dollars a day and finds the story of her life written in the pages of the Old Testament. The average Anglican represented at Lambeth is more likely a white man from New Jersey with a three-car garage who supposes that the world in which he lives is described quite well by the pages of the New York Times."

Even I.....

I have not enjoyed the years (over 6 now) of taking heat for my "excessive apocalypticism" in warning about the US economy and culture. I dont like being out of the mainstream and I have always wished to be hale and well-met rather than ignored and cassandra-like.

So, it's with some trepidation that I admit that I never imagined things would be where they are now BEFORE the negative feedback loop of economic shrinking even really interacts with true debt deflation. The Austrian vision of capital evaporation as a ponzi scheme falls of its own weight even BEFORE the deflationary forces have had a solid chance to come from the non-financial "real" economy scares me even though I have predicted economic armageddon for so long.

I know I really shouldnt venture here, but...

Politics doesnt usually work well for blogging, I know, but this comment I ran across over at Calculated Risk really was too funny not to share:

"It's as if we elected Tyler Durden in 2000 and 2004."