Tying in nicely to Jacob’s most recent post..
here we have Der Furher coming face to face with a personal housing apocalypse..

November 2007 saw the release of the film What Would Jesus Buy? which satirically focused on the commercialization of Christmas and materialism at large. The film stars activist/performance artist Bill Talen, who goes by the alias of “Reverend Billy,” and his troupe of activists, whose street theater performances take the form of a church […]

I’m glad we gave away $700 billion to Wall Street to stop the bleeding…

Via Openleft…
   Last Monday’s Headlines: 
House Rejects Bailout Package, 228-205; Stocks Plunge,
New York TimesBailout bill slapped aside; record stock plunge, AP
Markets plunge after House rejects financial rescue bill, LA Times
Stocks plunge as House votes down bailout plan; Dow drops 778, USA Today
Today.
Credit Crisis […]

I’ll readily admit I don’t really know what to make of the bailout situation. I’m no economic intellectual, but my gut tells me $700 billion is a lot of money (5% of our entire economy), and I can’t help but wonder if that money couldn’t be used to better serve the interests of Americans […]

From National Geographic:
Everything you eat. Everything you drink. Everything you use. Your entire life’s consumption. In one place at one time.
For a long time I’ve had this exact thought floating around in my head. “Every piece of fruit I ever ate, what would that look like visually?”, or more literally, “how big would that pile […]

From last week…

It’s too bad we didn’t listen to these idiots and invest one-third of the Social Security system in the market.