The most technologically savvy US Presidential campaign in ever! evidently wasn’t aware that NTSC and PAL are different standards, that there are a number of different region codes, and that some countries haven’t adopted the US standard. — Or maybe they were aware, and they just didn’t much care. Chant it with me now: DOWN WITH AMERICAN CULTURAL IMPERIALISM! LET NETFLIX BURN! SMASH THE MACHINERY OF DIGITAL VIDEO GLOBALIZATION! Jesus.

In Chicago. Tony’s gym is located just a few miles from O’Hare. A few spots still available. Those of you who will be in Chicago and want to skip the seminar but meetup with me, let me know. In addition to the seminar, some of us will be there for a few extra days (I’ll be arriving Wednesday the 8th and leaving Monday the 13th in the afternoon), and we’ll

From “No New Taxes”: I deplore this confiscatory tax aimed at whoever Congress is mad at today. Right now it’s AIG and Fannie Mae; later it will be Merrill and Citibank, and eventually it will be defense contractors, profiteering oil executives, or whomever the Congressional Dems single out as their whipping boy du jour. And of course, rolling this ex post tax out at the same time the Fed and

From the Hartford Courant: Executives at Countrywide Financial, one of the biggest names of the housing boom, routinely violated internal company policies to provide below-market rates on home loans to the politically connected and powerful, according to a congressional report to be released Thursday. Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., who is named in the report, has denied that he received any special deal from Countrywide. Last month he said that he

Unfortunately for the secular Messiah, he’s going to have to deal with this first year before he’s able to start campaigning again. Unfortunately for the country, it appears nobody close to him ever made that quite clear.

From the WSJ: A provision in President Barack Obama’s stimulus law might have forestalled payment of $165 million in bonuses to employees of American International Group Inc., but was altered before final passage at the request of the Obama administration, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd said Wednesday night. Mr. Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, introduced a provision into the stimulus that capped executive pay, among other things. But the final

so much depends upon the empty signifier* glazed with coded hate inside the white oppressor.*

This time, courtesy of dicentra, who has “transcribed a bit of Andrew Breitbart’s journey in to the maw of hell (from the top video) as a first-class demonstration of what it looks like when someone else decides what you mean.” As dicentra observes, as as I’ve observed of Dyson for years, note how Dyson runs out the clock by refusing to let his opponent get a word in edgewise. This

And yes, that says “bad hand,” not “bad head,” “bad cold,” “bad hearing,” or “early onset dementia”. From the Campaign Spot: President Obama may have set a new record for disingenuousness moments ago, when he asked where those who are objecting to AIG bonuses were several years ago when Wall Street was handing out larger bonuses, and claiming that they believed, not long ago, that the government should never get