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Daily Archives: June 11th, 2010

Friday Night Music

Friday, June 11, 2010

I had something else lined up for tonight, but I read in the Times today that Crispian St. Peters died recently, so I changed my plans. He had precisely one hit here in the States, and truth to tell, it was not such a great song, but it’s one of those tunes that sticks with […]

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Good news, sort of

Friday, June 11, 2010

Well, according to the Treasury, we taxpayers have now been fully repaid for all those Tarp loans. But it’s important to note that those loans were basically interest free, and in fact the banks made money on them. How? Well, the interest the Treasury charged was so low as to be non-existent, so the banks […]

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Hair

Friday, June 11, 2010

Seems that Carly Fiorina dissed Barbara Boxer’s hairstyle, which trivial incident is worthy of a front page article in the New York Times, which appears dedicated to the proposition that the incident is both totally trivial and monumentally important. Personally, trivial or not, I hope it hurts Fiorina, but I’m a partisan hack. What I […]

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