Today I received a letter from Citibank informing me that, “in order to provide our customers with access to credit, we have had to adjust our pricing.” Uh-huh. Do we need to talk about the billions you’ve received of ourmoney, you fucks? Do we need to talk about how messed up a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Politco Schmolitico'
Dear Citibank, I break with thee, I break with thee, I break with thee.
November 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Politco Schmolitico, The Way The World Works
Quote of the day: Interregnum
September 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politco Schmolitico
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.
– Antonio Gramsci
H/T to Jon Taplin, who covers this with more facility than I can muster. I will say this, another stolen quip though, that the fault, dear [...]
Tags:Antonio Gramsci·mccarthyism·politics·quote
Obama wins Salt Lake County
November 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Politco Schmolitico
Yes! Yes! Yes! We did it friends and neighbors! Today, after all the provisional and absentee ballots have been counted, it has been reported that Barak Obama won Salt Lake County by 296 votes.
I guess my vote counted after all.
-c
Tags:election·obama·politics·salt lake
Welcome to the wilderness
November 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Politco Schmolitico, The Way The World Works
Tags:bush·cartoon·gop·wilderness
An important moment
February 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Politco Schmolitico
My life has been, well, busy doesn’t quite have the muster for describing the recent quotidian plodding of The Chad, and I haven’t been blogging nearly as much as I would like. But in a really, really bizarre way I found myself stumbling across these two videos. The first is a spur-of-the-moment interview done [...]