"Living in capitalism without understanding the role of money is like a fish that doesn't know how to navigate water," they write. "In our modern economy, capital is the equivalent of water to fields. With it comes the possibility of growth, without it little can survive." [VIA: The indispensible Brutally Honest.]
GM sales in 2007: 9,370,000 vehicles
Toyota sales in 2007: 9,366,418 vehicles
GM profit/loss in 2007: -$38,730,000,000 (-$4,055 per car)
Toyota profit in 2007: $17,146,000,000 ( $1,874 per car)
The definition is loose, and I rush to suggest that it means anywhere from extremely colorful and threatening rhetoric in government and finance to self-destructive weirdness associated with absolute power, desperate vanity, bipolar outbreak, chemical abuse, and a phone bill the size of the Matterhorn.
"Dear India: fuck you. We didn't have shit to do with this, and we won't do shit for you. And if you were especially empathetic, too, you'd realize what a dick you are. PS: I fucked your wife."
Washington-based NPR said it would lay off about 7 percent of workforce and eliminate two daily programs produced out of its facilities in Culver City, Cal. The shows include "Day to Day," which was aimed at younger listeners, and the newsmaker-interview program "News & Notes," which NPR hoped would attract African Americans.Now if they'd just lay off three of the four stations in the Seattle area that broadcasts NPR, my joy would be complete.
Oh God. NPR!
Drone, drone, drone, . . . . zzzzzzzzzz . . .
Has there ever been a bigger bunch of insipid limpdicks polluting the airwaves?
Posted by: Roderick Reilly at December 11, 2008 10:14 AMI've gotta do a lot of NPR-avoiding to listen to good jazz on KPLU!
Posted by: pete at December 11, 2008 11:36 AMLet's hope Daniel Aldana Cohen is better informed about his subject matter than he is about Coca Cola. Coca advocates have been running the meme that "Coca Cola contains cocaine/coca" as part of the anti-imperialist anti-US droning for eons when in fact Coca Cola hasn't had any form of cocaine in it since 1929.
In other news, Evo Morales recently underwent nose surgery.
Posted by: Fausta at December 12, 2008 10:45 AM"It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood." -- Karl Popper N.B.: Comments are moderated to combat spam and may not appear immediately. Comments that exceed the obscenity or stupidity limits will be either edited or expunged.
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