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marginalia of the phantom city

Nov 6

Nov 5
“Munger said in a released statement that although he had obviously lost the race for Governor of North Carolina, the Libertarians had won a victory by “enormous requirements to stay on the ballot and not have to get the damn signatures.” Greensboro Telegram


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Oct 18
“Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-El, to save the planet Earth. - Sen. Barack Obama” Hit & Run > The Friday Political Thread: Plumbing New Heights - Reason Magazine

Oct 14
“The past few weeks of Judge Parker have been like watching the main character from a 1950s industrial film (‘Vests Are For Everyone’ or ‘The Wonderful World Of Contract Negotiation’ or ‘Understanding Small Dogs’ or whatever) inexplicably starring in a Cinemax After Dark erotic thriller. Nearly every panel is fraught with potential for sexy adventure, but stolid old Sam just sits there in the living room between the hot detective in leather pants and the bikini-clad exotic dancer, wondering what all the fuss is about. –Trilobite” The Comics Curmudgeon » Blog Archive » Metapost: Comments of the week, plus THE GREATEST MARY WORTH-RELATED THING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN

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Sep 25

In fact, some of the most basic details, including the $700 billion figure Treasury would use to buy up bad debt, are fuzzy.

‘It’s not based on any particular data point,’ a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. ‘We just wanted to choose a really large number.’

Hit & Run > A Carefully-Planned, Not-At-All-Slapped-Together Figure Pulled Out of Thin Air - Reason Magazine

Sep 24

Sep 22
“Maybe instead of bailing out things that are too big to fail we should arrange it so the set of things too big to fail is empty.” Idle thought « The Edge of the American West

Sep 18
“Choose perl if you think that scripting is for quick-n-dirty tasks, and your language ought to look like it. Or if you like how it looks when Snoopy swears.” The GITS Blog » Choices