Texs, Part II, Part I

I’m in the Lone Star State again. Great f*cking state.

Great blog on Porsche takeover of VW

Ivan Krstic wrote a nice post about Porsche’s financial maneuvering here.

Great story on Detroit

Matt Labash at the Weekly Standard wrote a remarkable feature on Detroit here.

Density of Eric Petersons by state

I somehow found this graphic to sort things out. Most states have 2 to 35 Eric Petersons, although there are 36 to 69 in Colorado. Minnesota runs a strong second to California.

The Walmart Plague

Looks like an epidemic.

http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/

Robot Poetry

I know this awesome robot poet that reads his work here.

The Big Ripoff

According to this graph, minimum wage should be $19/hour, but instead we had to pay greedy thugs like Henry Paulsen hundreds of millions while thieving guilds like Goldman Sachs ransacked the economy.

Sounds about right

From Harper’s Jan. issue:

“Average percentage of Americans who approved of the job Bush was doing during his second term: 37

Percentage of Russians today who approve of the direction their country took under Stalin: 37″

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Tripping with Groucho

This is a good story Paul Krassner wrote about eating LSD with Groucho Marx.

“Do you realize that irreverence and reverence are the same thing?”

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Sunday pic

I am bored beyond belief and need to snap out of it.

Plastic-wrapped Jesus on the border.