While it was a perfect storm of greed, and Goldman played their part (along with all the others), wasn’t the bigger cause of the economy meltdown AIG, who insured most of the financial institutions with credit default swaps and didn’t have enough liquidity to cover the losses?

‘Despite it being an outright lie and easily verifiable as such, the rightwing media had convinced them that Bill Clinton sent all their jobs to China.’

It’s quite simple: NASCAR fans are dolts. 

Ralphie to his friends.....

Well that is a fine pairing of screenshots.  It never struck me while watching last night,  but it’s a fine “aha” moment this morning.

“do your hips swear to tell the truth, the whole truth & nothing but the truth?”

“I’m starting to feel you, your honor.”

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be a Christian and believe that your omnibenevolent Creator set you up in a world specifically designed to land you in eternal torment.

This dude definitely jerks it to extremely weird porn

https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/immigrants-rights-and-detention/immigrant-kids-keep-dying-cbp-detention

Also liked the touch of a bunch of kids in cages singing “Born in the USA” before the Puerto Rico flag unveil.

I don’t know if its on purpose, but they really have been managing to find some very unflattering pictures of extremely attractive people lately. I barely recognized Betty Gilpin in the picture on the newswire about her joining American Crime Story.

Well we do learn something new every day, now don’t we? This was very helpful: https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/what-is-the-difference-between-the-satanic-temple-and-the-church-of-satan.

Me: “Rose Byrne is very attractive and vivacious. No one could ever make me think otherwise.”

Yup Anton LaVey started the Church of Satan to get laid.

ve vant ze money

I don’t care how much you pay, you can’t watch!

Uh, I’m just gonna go find a cash machine.

holy shit tara reid was right?