The Center for Democracy and Technology discusses aspects of behavioral advertising on your ISP: Here is how the basic ISP model works: ad networks that partner with ISPs potentially gain access to all or substantially all of an individual’s Web traffic as it travels through the ISP’s infrastructure, including traffic to all political, religious, and […]

What is your Palin name? In this day and age of naming children, stars in Holleywood and Sarah Palin chose names not usual in mainstream America, but not totally unique. In an idle moment, find out your name if Palin had been your mom. Chase Rooster Palin Pro Growth Liberal is Muzzle Mammoth Palin (When […]

My Loyal Reader sends another example of those glorious, worthy individuals about whom “we do not have time” to worry: Former [AIG] Chief Executive Officer Maurice “Hank” Greenberg may try to end government involvement in the company “as prompt [sic] as possible,” his attorney David Boies said in an interview this week. Greenberg…has said the […]

From GOPnot4me asking if this is McCain’s advisor we get the explaination of what has happened.

I like Brad DeLong, conceptually. Even his errors in judgment are based on rational principles. And he has a really useful piece up right now about “dealing with financial crises.” (One of the nice things about it is that it also completely undermines his earlier suggestion that the Fed was wrong not to ease on […]

Posted again….a voice from 2006. In Defense of Corporate Taxes This may well have been the subject of a post by PGL. I apologize if I’m covering the same ground… my memory isn’t always the best. Every so often, someone brings up the idea of eliminating corporate taxes. I haven’t heard it in a few […]

by reader ilsm All the news on disappearing ‘equity’ and dissolving networth brought to mind I should bring some good news from the US Air Force whittlin’ scene to Angry Bear readers. A few weeks ago Boeing told the Air Force that they would not compete against the monster Airbus with their KC 135 replacement […]

Try this as you listen to your favorite opposition candidate.

Documentation of a minor disruption: Lehman won’t return “billions” of frozen prime-brokerage assets “in the short term,” said PricewaterhouseCoopers, administrator for the Lehman bankruptcy. Meanwhile, several hedge funds are planning to sing the Bono phrase from “Do They Know It’s Xmastime?”* to their cohorts at Morgan Stanley: Hedge funds that account for less than 10 […]