Just two. Don’t forget to read my Google Reader feed (it’s in the sidebar too).

• Robert Samuelson gives a pretty good account of why all these brokerage houses are failing. It does seem as if the brokerages should be forbidden from making investments themselves.
• Rob Tracinski details why the Sarah Palin coverage has been so atrocious, and what problems that causes for voters looking to get an accurate picture of who she is, what she’s accomplished and what she believes. UPDATE: Actually, Eric Raymond does a decent job of sorting the wheat from the chafe here.

That’s it.

I’ve been way too busy to blog. And I have so much to say too, which really sucks. In the meantime, you should be subscribing to my Google Reader feed, which you can find in my sidebar. And if you aren’t subscribed, here’s what I’ve been reading for the last week:

• Syncman synchronizes your Apple address book with Gmail. Frankly, I’m floored that Google hadn’t built and released this product aeons ago…
• Boston angels suck wind compared to the Valley
• Conservatism means being unduly obsessed with homosexuality. What an embarrassment.
• Mexican meatballs. Remind me to make those for Cinquo de Mayo.
• Turkey attempts to shut down its pork butchers. So much for a tolerant Islamic society.
• Online brothel. I suppose everything exists now.
• Lesbians suing lesbians. Can’t we just all get along?
• Cupping and tweaking.
• Steamed citrus calamari. I saw Lidia make this on PBS, and now I have the recipe. I will make this once this summer.
• Marilyn Manson makes absinthe.
• Happy spamiversary.
• Best Rev. Wright caricature.
• Kollege kidz R Dum.
• Henry Blodget is back. The end is near.
• Craigie St Bistrot is expanding. We ate there recently, and it’s awesome.
• Rev. Wright email. I suspect that most black parishioners view hyperbole as stock in trade for their preachers.
• Cigarette tea.
• Real sugar coke. I guess they sell it for passover. I meant to buy some and stash it away. Damn.
• Is Top Chef Just One Big Lesbianic Morality Play?
• Protesting the Federal Reserve.
• Back in black.
• Rapping 101.
• Ostrich eggs at Whole Foods. Not mine, unfortunately.
• Wonder fish.
• RIGHT ON!!! Seriously, it’s been a long while since I’ve eaten at McDonalds.
• 20% off Apple Photobooks, good until Mother’s Day.
• How to flip your car in 30 seconds or less.
• Twitter
• Bolut. Someone should make this en gelée.
• Artificial meat. I think it’s probably better than the factory farms that we get most of our meat from currently…
• Measured in terms of death by time spent in the vehicle, airplanes are less safe than cars.
• Boston.com wants your copyright.
• The Nazis DID host the olympics. Gotta love protesters.
• More Paul Grahams.
• Waterproof your iPod Shuffle.

I’ll see if I have some time to blog tonight. I really do have some interesting stuff to say. Honest!!!

Here are my Google Reader & Short links for the week. Enjoy:

• Cats For Engineers
• Kohler Karbon Faucet
• Leatherman for Gardening
• Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Infocom “Sequel” Released
• Obama on Tax Fairness
• 5lbs of Silly Putty
• Mocha Latte Pig
• What Happens When You Steal A Leopard Mac
• Obama’s Comments Not Seen As Bad Among Liberals
• Garlic and Rosemary Pizza Dough
• Jack In The Box BBQ Bacon Sirloin Burger Review. This really cracked me up.
• McCain Recipe Scandal
• Charcuterie
• Congress Wants To See States Tax The Internet. I guess their popularity isn’t quite low enough for them, huh?
• SOA Trade Show
• When Eating Dog Is Illegal, Eating Dog Becomes Dangerous. I have no interest in eating dog, but the attempts to ban horse meat here in the States bother me immensely.
• FSJ Rails Against Eco-VCs
• Curing Meat
• Like Mother Like Daughter
• Who’s Bitter?
• Index Tax Rebates To Inflation
• Hug An Athiest Day. Wow.
• iTunes Synchronization
• Virgin Broadband Hates Net Neutrality
• Free the Jefferson 1

Welp, that’s all folks!

I haven’t done a summary in a while. So let’s do it now:

• Dave writes a great summary of an article by a NASA scientist who finds serious problems with global warming theories.
• SNL parody of Top Chef.
• How to discredit yourself.
• FSJ channels Baudelaire.
• Way cool math-music-sound-Flash-thingy.
• Discussion in the change in Obama’s branding (font-change).
• Google steals.
• Evite horrifies.
• Where “Obama in a turban” came from. More here.
• Shut down Dell, give money back to shareholders.
• Scary DEA invasion. It’s shows like these that make assholes want to be cops and harass the rest of us.
• Moral questions involved in genetically altering animals to be sentient.
• Strip searching honor-student teenagers in public schools. And no, they found nothing.
• Delusions of grandeur. More here.
• Life in a 3AM world.
• McCain: The Anti-Individualist.
• Hillary can’t quit: She has debts to pay.
• Onion Movie Trailer.
• Sony BMG pirates software.
• TSA makes chick remove nipple rings to board airplane.
• Obama not well invested.
• Men prefer video games, women social networks.
• More Hillary lies.
• Debt Deflation.
• Clear Channel wants XM-Sirius regulated.
• I know it’s old, but the Mexican Hillary Midget is just so bizarre, I really don’t know what to make of it.
• Rhymes With “Male Lout”
• >Flip it. Flip it good.
• George Reisman on Debt Deflation.
• Stanley McGee walking free.

I should keep these more current. There are a bunch of memes in there that have gotten old already, and I also realize I’m just tagging lots of crap in Reason, which is fine, but I hate basically being a “what he said” kind of blogger. Whatever. You still love me, right?

I know, I’m behind on blogging. Here are some links about banking for you to read in the meantime:

• New Powers at the Fed
• More Moral Hazard
• Let the Chips Fall

And whatever bastard sent me THIS after I successfully made sausage this weekend seriously deserves a kick in the you know what.

Bye.

It’s been a while since I did one of these. Here goes:

• Adobe thinks they’re going to port Flash to the iPhone. The real question is, if they do will anybody download it?
• The political TMI crisis.
• MA legislator nut wants to lower legal limit to .02, which is like, a beer. Later, he apparently admits he’s just trying to make a complete farce of the system. Not bad.
• The Kool Aid man is thinned down and clothed. Is there no icon who won’t be ruined for the sake of political correctness?
• Reason roundup of opinions on Bear Stearns. More on the moral hazard brought on by the fiasco.
• Dick Morris on Geraldine Ferraro. And on the Clintons playing the race card.
• Ask Amber is now an official column at Whip It Out Comedy.
• Pork and Absinthe lollipops.
• Your Prayers And The Government.
• Obama earmark quid pro quo? And another for his wife?
• John Cox on Siptzer.
• Did Silda know about Eliot Spitzer and his prostitutes?
• Ken Langione on Eliot Spitzer.
• Hookers keep secrets better than our government intelligence officials.

That’s it.

I’m way behind on these, so here goes:

• Steve Forbes: GWB = Jimmy Carter.
• Reason on Spitzer’s hypocrisy.
• Uncrate on Instapaper. I use it.
• 10 things we all want from restaurant wait staff.
• More on Spitzer.
• Smoked Trout And Oyster Chowder.
• Hillary’s Ass.
• Feds open your mail.
• Fuck.
• Gearing up for 2012.
• America’s Fat Problem.
• Short people live longer.
• Have you given up? Just about.
• Best tribute to Gary Gygax.
• The hardest thing in the world to understand.
• Limbaugh caller says Obama is a monkey. Offense taken. No word yet from Smirking Chimp.
• NBC runs fictional piece on crazy senator running for President. Guess which senator.
• Global Warming: Blame Mt. Pinatubo.
• Strip searching 8th graders for drugs. The drug? Advil.
• Obama bribed to oppose Iraq war. Sounds far fetched to me, but is still interesting.
• ExpanDrive. I may need to get this.
• Settling for a mate. It seems to me that unrealistic expectations are a huge problem in our culture. I remember looking through the Match.com personals, noting how many women insisted on 6′ for a minimum height requirement. The average height for an American male is 5′ 10″.
• CRAZY ass almost-plane crash.

That’s it. I’ll try to stay on top of things better in the future.

Didn’t do these on Friday, so we’re catching up today:

• The new $5 bill. (via daring fireball)
• Apple acts like MS, hides secret APIs.
• HRC wears a beige pantsuit at 3am. Seriously, what a stupid ad. As if already being on a first-name basis with other world leaders matters a damn. Once you become President of the United States, the most powerful country on Earth, you’ll be able to call anybody you want, and use their first names if you feel like it.
• Fauxbama. This controversy reminds me of the old Frosted Mini Wheats ads.
• GM bacteria to create crude oil. If this ever happens, watch for the price of oil to drop to pennies, and for the Middle East to lose its influence and economic power.
• Majority of Americans believe we can succeed in Iraq. Obama: No we can’t.
• Sharia at Cal Poly.
• Leap day facts from Freedom and Sh*t.
• Mmmm, Spanish ham…
• Red State, Blue State, forget it all.
• The end of William F Buckley’s coalition.
• Obama the bi-partisan? Show me the money!

That’s it for now. Enjoy your Sunday.

• NAFTA silliness: Stephen Chapman, Glenn Reynolds, all take note.
• Comcast stuffs net neutrality hearing with plants. Kind of in keeping with their evil personna, I suppose.
• Nerdcore concepts.
• How Democrats appeal to Southerners.
• White supremacists are ambivalent on an Obama presidency. Can’t say I’m surprised.
• William F. Buckley caricature from John Cox.
• Religious affiliation shifts in America. I can’t wait for the country to be 1/2 Evangelical Protestant and 1/2 Mormon. In that civil war, I think I’d side with the Mormons.
• Libertarians for Obama.
• Hitler does Disney cartoons.
• Will Deval Free ‘Em All?
• Sista Coulter.
• Mac Recommended Software.
• Damned hypocrites, predictably.
• The Earth is cooling.
• Lessing not running for Congress.
• George Will on McCain’s finance predicaments. This is a brilliant must-read.
• Stagflation. How many times do we have to say it people?
• Squash.

Here goes:

• Another Obama Photo?
• Prosty the Spokesgland
• New MacBooks. Yay!
• Clinton wins among uninformed. Is anyone surprised that that’s where her support comes from?
• If you elect Hillary, you’re really electing Bill.
• Yet more bank write-offs on the way. I TOLD YOU this wasn’t over. Not by a longshot.
• Dreams don’t pay the rent. Vote Obama.
• Steam is not a pollutant.
• Pakistan shuts down YouTube, gets kicked off Internet. Idiots.
• Apple swimwear.
• FSJ on the Obama pic.
• Fly to New Zealand. It’s okay.
• Indoctrinate U now available for purchase.
• Georgia tries to pass no-no-knock bill, sort of.
• Mrs. Clinton: Not ready on day 300.
• Enough with the NAFTA boogeyman.
• Clinton vs Obama bills authored.
• If only there was conspicuous voluntary donation to the government…