You just know all those thinly-veild-racist urban legends about black people naming their babies Fee-mah-lee or Placenta are being re-written about Alaskans.

Seen 'em. Also, innumerable jokes about sleddogs, moose, hunting, etc.

As I understand it, the big government push to help lower income people get mortgages was in 1977, with the Community Reinvestment Act, which was modified under Clinton and weakened substantially under Bush II in 2004. The CRA didn't affect private mortgage companies, which offered about half the mortgages in the housing feeding frenzy, and made subprime loans at twice the rate of the CRA-affected institutions. Another third of the subprime lenders were regulated by the goverment, but had little CRA involvement.

So I'm laying this at the feed of greed, not government do-gooder efforts.

I've found a really interesting history of WaMu and what JP Morgan/Chase thinks will happen to the market--that last is the scary part.

Ladies don't have seed, silly!

True dat, and that *might* explain the masturbation and the fisting, but anal sex? Are we also talking fisting here? Because I just assumed a penis was involved.

ALSO? I can't believe I am having this conversation. At all.

Brendam, if you're around, insent about tonight!

Matt Damon on Palin: [link]

Matt Damon on Palin

Ewwwwww!!

There are several baseball teams still fighting to get into the playoffs and three games deciding those races were extremely dramatic affairs last night.

The Mets fought back from the brink of elimination, the Brewers had a walkoff Grand Slam to win, and the Twins swept the White Sox to tie with three games left.

So I went to check the White Sox blog to see how their watch and post for the game went. And OMG, White Sox fans are the most rageful, bile-filled, but admittedly loyal fans I've ever witnessed in print.

However, if you ever loved the profane poetry of Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket you have to admire comments like:

"If I ever met Carlos Gomez, I’d fucking punch him in his cockwasher, then do a bunch of stupid Michael Phelps-esque emphatic fist-pump gestures and yell really loud at his unconscious body."

I also liiked the respone to some guy suggesting in-thread that the White Sox were about to blow it.

"i hope you die a painful death in an airplane crash with nick punto and carlos gomez skull fucking you."

After the loss:

"i'm going to cry into my puke."

From Time: McCain Pool Report

McCain now boarding plane at DCA with Cindy, Salter, Rudy Giuliani, wife Judith, and other aides plus pool.

Heading to Memphis, 1:50 minute flight, then motorcade to site

General atmosphere is utter confusion.

Heh. Report: McCain Aides Complain That Palin Is "Clueless"

Radio talk show host Ed Schultz reports:

Capitol Hill sources are telling me that senior McCain people are more than concerned about Palin. The campaign has held a mock debate and a mock press conference; both are being described as "disastrous." One senior McCain aide was quoted as saying, "What are we going to do?" The McCain people want to move this first debate to some later, undetermined date, possibly never. People on the inside are saying the Alaska Governor is "clueless."

On Friday, conservative columnist Kathleen Parker said that after seeing Palin in interviews, she thinks the vice presidential nominee should drop out.

eta: Of course, the above stuff from the McCain campaign might just be calculated to lower expectations on Palin (so they can then say she met or exceeded the expectations, and thus won the debate, etc).