tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90707551944643383792008-10-06T18:03:13.354-06:00A fun place where ideas can hang out and do whatever!Binghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09911928552839958713noreply@blogger.comBlogger1467125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9070755194464338379.post-81233007636864812032008-10-06T07:38:00.012-06:002008-10-06T12:22:41.852-06:00

In the various descriptions of the current financial crisis, one thing that has completely staggered me is that the financial managers of major investment institutions did not understand the products that they were selling. The complexity of these financial transactions apparently brought to life the farce of Douglas Adams' fictitious rock band "Disaster Area" (yes, Wall Street may officially be

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I decided to try something a little different this week with my Finding J, but all it illustrated to me was how completely random the searches are that bring people to this site. Seriously, for the most part, they defy sequential organization. Anyway, here are a few. Enjoy...or else. This week on Finding Jihad, we seem to have had two people who were not only “phoning it in” but who were “

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I have 30 minutes. I have paid my weight in quarters and my clothes are currently going through the communal laundry machines in the basement of my building. "But, Bing," I am certain you are asking, "Why aren't you downstairs waiting for them. I mean, you always do work while waiting for your clothes to get clean?" After demanding how you know that, my answer is longer than you might expect.

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(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BING MCGHANDI (BLOGGER, ST. LOUIS): On April 23rd, Bill O'Reilly interviewed Richard Dawkins on The Factor. I did not see this when it aired, because, as I have mentioned before, I do not have cable. I suspect I have profited from this fact. Anyway, some kind soul passed on a youtube link to the interview. I think that the two personalities are fascinating. I am very

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J. Matt Barber occasionally wafts across this page like a boozy, cheesy belch potent enough to kill a moose from a helicopter. As you may know, J. Matt is a member of Concerned Women for America...Yeah, you work that out. He's like the son Phyllis Schlafly never had. Anyway, J. Matt's odious leavings bubbled up into the basement at OneNewsNow, and it is charmingly entitled: "You're an angry

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DEMON! DEMON! See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. HJ

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I love these. They are so much fun! I knew that the lap-dancing one was going to win something. (I believe that I heard about it on NPR's Science Friday--great, wide-ranging show, if you can listen in the middle of the day.) In one writing class I taught that was made up almost entirely of future engineers (technical and professional writing), the entire semester was structured around an

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Yo. Bing here. Having issues. As I believe I said earlier, I rewarded myself for my new job with a subscription to sitemeter that was totally not worth it. I thought that I was going to have all sorts of nifty bells and whistles when it turned out that there was only one feeble cowbell. Sitemeter needs more cowbell, is what I'm saying. What I was hoping to learn by buying a subscription to

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OK, maybe not. But I got money on when that guy is finally going to have his long-anticipated stroke. I figure it will be at the moment that John McCain gives his concession speech. Don't let me down, Harry! I and other have spoken about what might termed the evangelical rules of capitalization. You see, evangelicals emphasize important words and ideas in ways that other people don't. For

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Actual transcript of a live chat I had during work with another PhD in my office.  No names have been changed because nobody is innocent.  We join our heroes right after I have checked to see if I have gotten any good spam in my email:  me:  Nothing good at all.  Dr. Brick Dust:  that is not good  me:  It's like the definition of not good!  Dr. Brick Dust:  with Yoplait  me:  HM.  I don't

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Ah, Jim Brown, non-journalist flunkie for the Weekly World News of the Christian press, OneNewsNow (official newspaper of the HJHOP Short Bus), sets off yet another lack of a firestorm with the headline: "Could an Obama loss spark race riots?" So, uh, which unknown asshat is OneNewsNow quoting instead of finding a real story today? It's David Corbin. Yeah, me neither. He has a job at The

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Journalism majorette Sarah Palin was unable to name a single fucking newspaper or magazine that she reads (wmv file). What about blogs, Sarita? We know that you read Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes. (Motto: "Your news? You're kidding.") You like the pretty videos and the people in the funny outfits in history. Jesus. That was a softball if ever there was one. HJ

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Long day. I went in to volunteer the other day for the Obama campaign. I had been recruited and sent by MoveOn, who apparently only sometimes sort of communicates their intentions to the campaign field offices. There was really nothing for me to do then, so I volunteered to come in tonight. I spent the better part of 5 hours updating voter lists online. Here's a hint if you are getting tired

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They don't say it in so many words, but it is clearly the implication behind the following brain-dropping from Ken Ham: Dragonfighter Inside the Museum Looks like the newly sculpted knight, Beowulf, the hero of a medieval poem who fought a dragon, is complete and ready to go on his perch above the Creation Museum’s bookstore door. Here is a photo of him being prepped in our workshop.I’ve been

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With my new job, I have upgraded my sitemeter account (woah, big spender!), and I can now bring you even more of the Finding Jihad goodness than you can possibly bear. small women getting fuck by bing guy (I was young. I needed the money! And they were hot midgets!)funny help wanted ads (“Wanted: Clydesdale corker.” [Keeps them from shitting on 3rd base before Cards games.])will a venus

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This bill never had a chance, really. The Republicans hated it.  An assload of Dems hated it.  I hated it.To try and pin it on Pelosi's speech is simply bizarre. Anyway, I'll let you decide. Do Republicans really want to paint themselves as whiny crybabies who can't take a little politics?As chumps who are incapable of dignified annoyance? No, but they are having a hard time dealing with the

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STOCKS PLUNGE!!!!!  WHEEEEEEE!!!! HJ

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Dr. Snazz, my office mate, alerted me to the following YouTube videos, called "Drunk History." It is pretty damned funny. But wait, there's more: And I'm going to throw in a little women's history for Historiann, the way it should be done... Ha! HJ UPDATE! DAMN! I was really hoping that they were grad students! They seemed to be the right age, but they are in fact comedians nobody

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Sitting in my inbox since the 23rd of this month is what can only be described as an intellectual eye-booger flicked from the index finger of one Ken Ham, a visitor to these shores in much the same way a gigantic, bloated, rotting, exploding whale carcass might be considered a visitor. But more offensive. It's called: “America Is Doomed” If We Believe in Creation" You know what, I kind of

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I'm no financial guru. I have a hard time figuring out a tip. But does it worry you that Wachovia is now apparently going to be up for sale? Citigroup and Wells Fargo are interested. Now, it seem to me part of the problem that we have here, aside from the fact that brokers selling mortgages assumed none of the risk, is that some companies are so large that we can simply cannot afford to let

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For some reason Bloglines is down and not feeding juicy morsels of web-enhanced knowledge. Never mind! I save stories for just this purpose. And so, it falls on me to do another edition of CrAzY CrEaTiOnIsT NeWs. This is where AiG goes through the news of the week and compares it with the Bible, leading to wackitudinous hilariosity. 1. BBC News: “Finnish College Gunman Kills 10” Finland

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This week on "Ask Bodie Hodge," M.R. writes in to Answers in Genesis. This is fine as far as it goes, except for the fact that AiG tries to answer the question in a post called: "A Rock So Big..." So, what gets a Christian's knickers in a twist? An atheist friend of mine once asked me a baffling question—one to which I could not respond any other way. “According to the Bible God is

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Morning polls (I often have those) suggest that the debate last night was a fair fight. I watched it in the presence of Animala, Mopy, Noob (a hyperactive wiener dog and international celebrity), Chuckles (a large bunny of indeterminate sex), four visible turtles, one invisible turtle, and a steadily decreasing number of crickets. I thought that it was more or less evenly matched, and that is a

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Irrelevant blowhard Bill Donohue, who I cannot prove has congress with the Devil, is, uh, defending Sarah Palin for being given a "witchcraft forcefield" from a nuttier-than-usual pastor. What this has to do with Catholics being oppressed...I haven no idea, but I'm pretty sure he's doing what I do after going a few days with nothing to bitch about online: bitching online for the sake of bitching

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Speaking of great, original speeches, Smack Baby, how about this? 2000 years of oratory, still highly formulaic. HJ

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