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  • Nuttin’

    —Norwegianity

    In the immortal words of Atrios, I got nuthin’. Oh I could probably do something with Judith Warner’s column, but it snowed today and my mind is elsewhere. Music at the other place later. Later. [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 6:45pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • A post that begins, middles and ends with Afghanistan

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 4
    I’m sure you’ve heard by now that Bill Ayers has dumped Obama over Afghanistan. Clarence Page seems to enjoy the irony. If you’re committed to party politics as I am, you don’t dump the President when he’s from your own party. Not unless he tries to nickel and dime regular [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 9:06pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • The linkcetera you’ve been waiting for

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 3
    Haaretz is excited. But not so excited they forgot to mention that Marc’s father was “released from federal prison last year after serving a nearly five-year sentence for wire and bank fraud.” Former Iowa Congressman Ed Mezvinsky’s sins, of course, should not be visited upon the son. But maybe someone should ask [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 2:52pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Palinfreude

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 1
    Digby’s quote from a HuffPo article sums up the state of the Palin quite nicely: As the epigram to Chapter Three, “Drill, Baby, Drill,” Palin assigns the following remarks to the Hall of Fame hoops coach: Our land is everything to us… I will tell you one of the things we remember [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 1:43pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • The fork in the road

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 5
    I have to confess that I’m finding it hard to give a shit about the news given that we’re escalating in Afghanistan. Spot and Mick both speak to issues I have about that, and I suspect we’re in for quite a few disillusioned posts from former Obamanistas, not that Mick [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 1:25pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Still thinking

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 6
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 12:34am EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Schwarzbeined in St. Paul

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 7
    There’s nothing like a series of five- and six-hour drives to give you time to think. On the way down to Ohio I emptied out my head, and on the way back I filled it up again. I think I know what I want to do with my blogs, but [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:38pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Enjoy your holiday

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 2
    Interest in medical marijuana and easing other marijuana laws picked up markedly about 18 months ago, but advocates say the biggest surge came with the election of Barack Obama, the third straight president to acknowledge having smoked marijuana, and the first to regard it with anything like nonchalance. Even the Washington [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:47am EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Liars lying, Books by Crocks edition

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 6
    Sarah Palin as seen by: Frank Rich The Times on Palin in Michigan and Indiana, but no mention of her ditching her fans in Indiana Christopher Buckley Steve Chapman Joe Wurzelbacher CNN TBogg TRex Palin did manage to find time to ditch some fans yesterday so she could rip on the Senate healthcare vote in which her side has [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 11:44am EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Sorry, you’ll have to stand in line for 3 hours before you can read this blog, and we might take down the post before then

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 1
    Politics: Bob Herbert with the sad story of Detroit Not sure where Ray D. Madoff is coming from, but farmers do NOT need protection from estate taxes (that’s a lie, a Republican lie — it’s never been true and never will be true no matter how many times they lie about it) Tripp Palin’s paternal [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:34pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • The fearsome troll-hammer of doom

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 8
    Some thoughts this morning on the fine art of trolling. That’s what I’m paneling on at Netroots Minnesota this afternoon, and that’s what I’ve been thinking about lately. Not from defensive POV, but in my role as a liberal troll at my buddy Vick’s blog. I think my work in that [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:17am EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Linkimus dumpus

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 4
    More than anything I’m putting up another post because I want to flag something for you. John Cole appears to be just about the only “news” source on the planet who’s put together the fact that CNN’s “Killing at the Canals” series on rogue U.S. troops in Iraq is about [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:50pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Is you is (or is you not?) the one you love?

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 5
    - I really don’t have much use for Sarah Palin, but I have even less use for smarmy doyennes who sleep their way to the top of the Village’s social heap, and then ask very broad and quite rude religious questions of someone who’s not present to answer them. What does she [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:31am EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • rat1928@disney.com

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 8
    It’s Mickey Mouse’s 81st birthday today, and he’s still the property of the Disney folks who have owned Mickey since they created him in 1928. What does that mean, exactly? It means that if you do anything with Mickey and Disney doesn’t like it (or even if they do), they can [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:21pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • There was, in fact, beer

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 3
    I took this one picture just before I started blowing up the balloons and putting party favors at all the placesettings. It appeared to be in focus last night, but apparently it only took one and a half Maharajas to cloud my vision. They served the strong beer in small [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:22am EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Riding shotgun in the sky

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 9
    No, not another link to another a story about Sarah Palin. Well, OK, if you insist. But I’m self-aware enough to know that Wegestock is just a manifestation of my inner Sarah, my need for attention, the gratification I get from having others buy me beer. It’s not my good side. [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:04am EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Getting ourselves back to the garden

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 4
    Minnesota Public Radio’s getting ready to expand their online news presence in a way that might prove to be very interesting. Or not. Meanwhile, the Strib jumps all over them this morning and the comments go from lib MPR hate to the usual rightwing NPR fulminations. Ed Kohler deconstructs the numbers [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:13am EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • The snark before Wegestock

    —Norwegianity

    A funny thing happened to Katherine Kersten on her way to the snarkfest. She laid it on so thick that Katherine’s churlish wordle grew three sizes today! And the minute her heart didn’t feel quite so right, she whizzed out an upload on the bright morning snow. And she brought back [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:40am EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Al and Norm sitting in a tub….

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 8
    I took another look at that Franken-Coleman Mad Magazine fold-in and the more I looked at it, the more I thought that their intent couldn’t possibly have been to create a FrankMan buttplug. Or a ColeKen buttplug. I tried folding the page differently. That didn’t look right either, so I tried a [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 3:57pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Another MinnSat post

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 7
    I think they let an intern write Opinuendo this week. Further speculation Wegeth not, but the reporting on the ID debate at St. Thomas’s law school is a bit more even handed and less snarky than the Opinuendo I remember. Picking up after Casey Luskin’s weasel points: Luskin was followed by Peter [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:14am EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • That plus hating on women

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 7
    Sholom Rubashkin has been found guilty of 86 out of 91 counts of felony fraud related to his management of the Agriprocessors packing plant in Postville, Iowa. He was separately found guilty of 15 out of 20 charges of ignoring a court order that he pay livestock providers on the barrelhead [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 12:27pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Media whores and bores

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 5
    I was finally induced into watching a Strib news video with James Lileks. I won’t do that again. Lileks approaches the news Fox style, and I just can’t handle that kind of conversational crap. If it’s news, it’s interesting whether you dress it up for a party or just read it [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:55am EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Only 5 drinking days left before Wegestock!

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 7
    The enthusiasm seems to have tapered off a bit, so I think it’s time to bring out the promo poster from Tild! I’m not sure but I think this poster references an old Julie Andrews movie, either S.O.B. or Thoroughly Modern Millie, I’m not sure which. Catherine at The Happy Gnome was [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 2:57pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Listing to starboard

    —Norwegianity

    Drowning in links, but I can’t decide what makes me maddest today. I think I’ll let Mick kick things off: I don’t want to seem too much like a broken record, going over and over the same grooves and playing the same song until My Funny Valentine sounds like Little Lambsy-Divey but [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 1:42pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Free fat grams for veterans day

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 5
    They serve and fight for their country, and this is how we repay them? Then again, maybe a bacon quesadilla cheeseburger would sound good to one of Minnesota’s 4,000 homeless vets. - In a rare bit of good news, Jeff Huber says it’s bullshit that Obama has decided to send more troops to [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:30am EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Tagged and in the bag

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 2
    The new header’s actually scarier when you can read the tags. Not sure everyone realized it, but the tags do denote what passes for thoughts in my innermost cranial thinkspots. Word cancers would be another way of putting it. Lots of word cancers. This iteration of Norwegianity isn’t even a year [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:37pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Change change

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 3
    Kill it. Yes, people will die, but people will die if this bill passes as is. Joe Lieberman should die. No, I don’t need Peter fucking Beinart to tell me it was a smart move. And I’ll ask the U.S. Conference of Bishops for their opinion the next time they chain themselves to [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 11:03am EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Bitterenders waiting for the new Saddam

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 3
    Krugman: Last Thursday there was a rally outside the U.S. Capitol to protest pending health care legislation, featuring the kinds of things we’ve grown accustomed to, including large signs showing piles of bodies at Dachau with the caption “National Socialist Healthcare.” It was grotesque — and it was also ominous. For [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:24am EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Marri[gay]age

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 7
    Your biweekly Kerdle from wordle.net. You know, sometimes I think her wordles open windows into her real obsessions. Click to read her actual post at your own peril, or just take my word for it that this Tom Toles ‘toon covers everything she has to say and then some. - A Day in [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 9:47am EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Republicans disrupt House

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 3
    Screaming, shouting, pantswetting Republicans doing their damnedest to disrupt the healthcare debate this morning. And, in a last minute effort to swing votes for the anti-abortion crowd, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has just weighed in on healthcare reform. - Not fame I had sought out but it appears I’m being credited [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:05pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Eye openers

    —Norwegianity

    Dept. of What Comes Around: The firm that designed the fateful Interstate 35W bridge has asked the National Transportation Safety Board to reopen its investigation into the Aug. 1, 2007, collapse. The request by Pasadena, Calif.-based Jacobs Engineering Group was made in a 19-page letter sent within the past few weeks to [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:56am EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • A rubber ball the size of a coconut

    —Norwegianity

    Picked up a case of much riper pomegranates so by all rights this post should go up on the other blog, me already being well on my way to being that way. But these are N links, not M links, and frankly, I don’t think they’d age well. Friday night stuff [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 7:21pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Freedom bowling for freedoms

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 4
    Michele Bachmann had her little rally on Capitol Hill and then, at her urging, the demonstrators stormed the Capitol building with twelve arrests being reported outside Speaker Pelosi’s office alone. Because that, ladies and gentlemen, is what law and order abiding social conservatives do. When they’re not shooting abortion doctors. Or engaging [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 11:33am EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Saving the plant for later

    —Norwegianity

    Nothing like a late night meeting with an attorney to make me reach for the bottle and pipe. Not my attorney, but the meeting was about stuff I’ll have to help with so there you go. I did get some kind of potted plant to go with my retainer. Actually I [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 11:02pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Why does anyone care what anyone thinks

    —Norwegianity

    …when everyone’s just lying anyhow? - No, I didn’t want to click on any of that shite either. Too many pundits today trying to explain Tuesday’s election, and they’re all full of it. But here’s the cartoon: Nah, doesn’t do much for me either. One thing did ring my chimes, however. Rushbo is blaming Newt [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:17am EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Over 3 hours later, it’s still the 7th inning

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 8
    The World Serious takes a long time to play because it’s so very, very serious.   UPDATE: It took over four hours, but now you can all join in singing the We Hate the Yankees song. This is my 57th October and the twelfth time the Yankees have come through for me. That [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:09pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • What it all means

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 1
    Memorydejavu asked in the comments as to what it all means. John Cole says that it means the voters selected Democrats in national races, and Republicans for governorships in states already trending that way. Tim Fernholz at the centrist American Prospect says it was a rejection of extremism, but  doesn’t mention [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 1:24pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Pounding Rand up their asses

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 2
    From the Strib: Bill Owens beat Sarah Palin/Tim Pawlenty-endorsed Doug Hoffman in NY23, and dirty-as-hell-and-twice-as-corrupt former USAG Chris Christie is the new governor of New Jersey. CA10 just moved considerably to the left. Oh, and Breckinridge overwhelmingly legalized pot and paraphernalia. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Less humorously, the douchebags in Maine still don’t like gay marriage despite [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:57am EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Flogstock

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 4
    I don’t always stay up to date on things like I should. Netroots Minnesota? Who knew? And who knew that I was going to be on a panel? I assume I’ll be the go to person for politeness strategies. . Actually I just learned that this is wrong, and that the panel will be on [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 1:02pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Mau mauing voters in NY23

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 3
    Teabaggers intimidating voters at NY23 polling stations. Bringing a little bit of Dixie Alaska to upstate New York. Charming. - It’s kinda funny how things work at the WaPost now. Nick Gillespie reviews two new rightwing hagiographies of Sarah Palin, and casually throws in a: The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan, a self-identified conservative who calls his [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 12:21pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • HDL: hyperdense linking

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 5
    They got so much things to say. Eh! But I’ll never forget no way: they crucified Je-sus Christ. From Bob Marley’s So Much Things to Say, a song that’s always haunted me. Mostly because I thought Marley was singing I’ll never forget Norway…. I try hard not to listen to closely to the [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 9:14pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Hating on Goldman Sachs like Republicans hate women

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 9
    Hmm. Just trying to remember the last time the NYTimes treated a conservative lawmaker like this. “Problem child”? Big mouth wide open? I think we’re more than ready for a new Spy. Maybe Media Matters could find a snarky illustrator to go with their stories. The Daily Beast is too sensationally oriented, Mediaite [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 9:12am EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • It goes without mentioning

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 4
    That I spent my Hallow’s Eve Quaking out between innings. Zombie Ronald Reagan being my favorite first person shooter avatar ever. Slash is, of course, Nancy Reagan’s online gaming handle. [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 3:58pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • No candy at this blog

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 3
    Just realized that in addition to changing all the clocks, we have to update our wall calendars today. Can’t remember the last time I had to do both on the same day. Doesn’t that make this some kind of special holiday? No biggie, just fishing for a better than usual excuse to [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 12:14pm EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Scozzafavaed in NY23

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 1
    That’s it? An hour? That’s all we get back? Fuckers. They took more than that from us last spring, you know they did. - You’ve no doubt heard by now that the ass-biting purists on the right have hounded Dede Scozzafava out of the NY23 race. (video) Frank Rich explains: Who exactly is the third-party [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 9:31am EST
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Interviewing DICK (and other tales from the destroyation)

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 7
    FBI notes from their interview with Cheney in ‘04 show DICK to have been quite hazy on the specifics of his lawbreaking. Asked whether he personally discussed the couple with any reporter, Cheney said he generally did not “take incoming calls from the media.” He declined to sign a legal waiver [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 11:04am EDT
    by Mark Gisleson

  • WEGESTOCK

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 10
    It’s official: Blogging since November 1999 (and actually compensated for it once or twice) I went with a Tuesday night to keep the out-of-town riff-raff away, and because Wednesdays are church nights for most of my readers. Wear a parka and bring gloves. [picture of the patio] Be advised that folks who hide out indoors [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 1:23pm EDT
    by Mark Gisleson

  • We compromise, they whine

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 3
    Krugman says to support the healthcare bill because it’s better than nothing. I was talking with a nurse last night and from the her perspective nothing short of single payer makes any sense. The entire health insurance industry is just one big layer of inefficiency driving up the cost of health [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 10:17am EDT
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Rainy day reading

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 2
    Thomas Frank is hardly your average Wall Street Journal opinionator, so take his WSJ op-ed, Obama Right About Fox News, with a grain of salt. - Minneapolis keeps making lists lately. Luckily, they didn’t make into The Daily Beast’s 10 Worst Dropout Cities list, but Gov. BridgeFail still has another year to [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 3:43pm EDT
    by Mark Gisleson

  • Economy rebounds but Wall Street keeps stealing the ball

    —Norwegianity

    Number of comments: 1
    [INSERT LYING GRAPH HERE] Lots of cheerleading for economic indicators in the papers this morning. Nothing that impacts you or I, so fuck the links. I’d be in a good mood this morning were it not for the recent construction trend in which the railroad workers put a vehicle into reverse, then [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 9:42am EDT
    by Mark Gisleson

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