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Yo, I know this blog is inert lately, but go sign this petition (then they'll know whose door to knock down next... probably mine)

Facebook killed the bloggio star...

Man, not that in any way I'd ever consider myself a "bloggio star" (whatever that means) but going full sail on Facebook has seriously piked into the small amount of time I had left over to post on Ho Hum. I'm guessing this effect isn't unique to me (and I also found this similar sentiment). Regardless of how far you thought you left behind your high school and/or college days, you'd be surprised how compulsively you will jump right back in, making "friends" with people you only barely knew, or even disliked. You partly do this to be nice and assume that the person may no longer be a bully or a bitch, or maybe you will think that they may have liked you more than you thought (har!!). Or you may do this because you simply want to see what happened to them (for better or worse) since they (and you) left that world behind. Either way, it is a MAJOR TIME SUCK, and though I'm digging it now (I really am... and my high school was not that viscious, and even most of the jocks were nice guys), I wonder if the "SUCK" part of that will be where I end up with the whole Facebook endeavor. That said, seeing uploaded photos of your 2nd grade class and trying to figure out who is who in that photo has its appeal at this age... but then again, maybe facebook is really EVIL (please chime in, all 2 of you)!!!

p.s., I've noticed that when you go to someone's facebook page and all you can get access too is their "friends" list, you click on that button and because that person either hasn't had time to bother or has chosen not to play, facebook coldly informs you "Fred Jackson has no friends..." The nerve, but then again, it does sound so stark, so sad...

Corporate Greed (the new hot topic... new... heh)

I'm not sure folks should ever expect much from a job at a fast food joint (except learning hard knocks), but this is still emblematic of the climate that were either free falling from or, hopefully, pulling ourselves from it's goopy tendrils... and, I dare say that the Burger King guy is genuinely creepy. I mean creepy like your worst cell mate kinda creepy... I mean Bee Gees creepy (and I don't hate the Bee Gees, but he does look like one scary Baa-haa-haa-ree Gibb)... I mean like hide your children and your live-at-home mother kinda creepy... creepy mofo indeed

Have fun reading this entertaining account of a dosed teacher... and just for pure enjoyment, I present this delightful rendering of Joe Lieberman fucking a donkey (how symbolic)...



by the way, both from The Buffalo Beast... (not that I haven't served them well... but just in case (my own drawings of Liebermann fucking a donkey and not as skilled, but much more detailed...)

As I've said before, electing Obama would do a lot to restore our world cred... check out this montage of foreign response to his election, and then enjoy this montage representing the local front... good on us for finally making a better choice

The Beast is back!

Yup, it is that time of year again, when the Buffalo Beast unleashes its 50 Most Loathsome Americans of the Year. If you’re the type that gets upset when someone rags on someone you like, skip it… (it happens to me, but I get over it). There’s something in here to piss off everyone, but I always enjoy it…



And while you’re there, I suggest you check out a cruelly hilarious “interview” with Ken Ham, the yo yo who is curator of the Creationism Museum. Mean, but deservedly so…

Wii !!!

The great tax myth

Phew! I'm glad that it's over, but now we get to hear the rightwing pundits obsessively recast the shitpile Bush lft behind for us as the "Obama Recession." The nerve, but I expect nothing more from the lot of them. Now, on to taxes...

Recently, the common wisdom is that to stimulate the economy, you must cut taxes. The wisdom continues with "Why will the rich produce more if they are, like in most of the first 2/3 of the last century, paying 80% or even greater than 90% in taxes?"

Well, the numbers say otherwise. I suggest you read this blog entry from Larry Beinhart (of Wag the Dog fame). The bottom line is that when we put stiflingly high taxes on high incomes and profits, profits tend to be revinvested into the companies that made them. When the opposite is true and taxes on super high profits are low, rich folks start wondering what to do with all those piles of cash. So, they end up throwing money into bad investments (e.g., Ponzi schemes or houses in Florida) and such, which leads to a bubble, which grows and grows until it pops! (sound familiar?

This makes me worry about Obama's recent talk about tax cuts. And don't think democrats will easily raise taxes the rich.

Once again, be sure to check Beinhart's post out.

Finally, we can move on from this really long 8 years of embarrassment...