Archives for posts tagged ‘socialism’

Diggable content and honest whores

Personally, I prefer Reddit to Digg. They’re both good for some interesting stories, but the user quality is ultimately what determines the quality of any Web 2.0 application. Sooner or later, someone will engineer a Web 2.0 app that is designed to elminate what kills everything Web 2.0 - popularity. As soon as you invent [...]

Hundreds of banks will fail, Roubini tells Barron’s

If hundreds of banks are going to fail, we need to be asking why. Who is responsible?
NEW YORK, Aug 3 (Reuters) - The United States is in the second inning of a recession that will last for at least 18 months and help kill off hundreds of banks, influential economist and New York University Professor [...]

Money for nothing and chicks for free

The consequences of socialism include the rapid breeding of parasitic morons.
Take, for example, this family, led by the Matriarch of Ultimate Moochiness.
“The only problem is,” she says without a hint of irony, “that we’re living in a three-bedroom council house, which is ridiculous.
“I’m asking the council for a ten-bedroom home for all of us. We [...]