Andymatic

Month: October 2008

  • New York Times Failing Quickly

    “The company has only $46 million of cash. It appears to be burning more than it is taking in–and plugging the hole with debt.  Specifically, it is funding operations by rolling over short-term loans–the kind that banks worldwide are cancelling or making prohibitively expensive to save their own skins: At the end of the quarter, […]

  • Woman Clings to Life to Do a Final Vote

    On the morning of Oct. 8, Fitzgerald scratched her signature on an absentee ballot from a bed in her North Charleston, S.C., home, where she had moved to be close to some of her nine children. She died an hour after the ballot was mailed, said her son, Terry Fitzgerald, of Woodland Road in Foxboro.

  • Toilet Surfing Isn't What You Think

    Bored on the loo? Why not catch up on some emailing? The humble book is being replaced by the laptop in lavatories across the UK, according to the internet service provider Plusnet. Its research revealed that one in ten broadband users have surfed the web while sat on the loo.

  • Bush's Version of Socialism

  • Our Cuddly New Surveillance State

  • How can the derivatives market be worth more than the world's total financial assets?

    From Slate: Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin issued a call on Tuesday for regulation of the “over the counter” derivatives market, which has an estimated size of about $596 trillion. By contrast, the value of the world’s financial assetsincluding all stock, bonds, and bank depositswas pegged at $167 trillion last year by McKinsey. How can the […]

  • Iraq Veterans Trampled by Horse While Protesting War

     IVAW members arrested while attempting to present questions to Obama and McCain “Neither of the candidates have shown real support for soldiers and veterans. We came here to try and get serious questions answered, questions that we as veterans of the Iraq war, have a right to ask, but instead we were arrested. We will […]

  • AIG Retreats and Hunts May Violate State Law

    From Bloomberg: The party is over,” Cuomo said today at a press conference on Wall Street in lower Manhattan. “No more hunting trips. No more luxury resorts. They are not going to have the party and leave the hangover for the taxpayers.” AIG has been castigated by officials since the New York- based insurer hosted […]

  • Male Circumcision Reduces Female Pleasure

    From Dr, Dean Edell: A New Zealand study found that reduced female arousal and fewer female orgasms may be linked to women having sex with circumcised male partners. Women reported they were about twice as likely to experience orgasm if their male partner had a foreskin. Nine out of ten women prefer having sex with […]

  • Best Place to Eat

    Sitting here on the bed. Ron is surfing images of commercial airplanes. Astro is to my right. Downy is sleeping in Ron’s suitcase outin the living room. We went to the gym this morning. Did chest and triceps. Did very light weights with high number of repetitions. Then we came home and showered and went […]