* Like smaller banks and credit unions? Get it while you can, because FinReg’s gonna squash ‘em.
* New York State about to prohibit short term apartment rentals, especially those arranged on sites like Craigslist. I think the white elephant in the room on this question is race — I get the feeling the politicians think that too many white people are leasing or subleasing to too many white people in this fashion.
* Believe me, the Daily Kos isn’t an innocent victim in all this. They wanted these biased results — I didn’t need to read this news to know that this poll was full of loaded questions geared to a loaded audience to garner a loaded result — All I needed to know is that the Daily Kook chartered the poll. Circumstantial evidence that Markos isn’t so innocent is that the polling firm is counter-suing. Notice that the polling firm also did work for Lee Enterprises, which owns the P-D, so maybe some of these polls you see in the P-D should be called into question (like duh).
* I think American Thinker is a bit behind the times: I think the Democrats have moved on to “Bargaining.” State pols and wannabes on the Democrat side in Massachusetts are already trying to make nice with TPM activists.
* The sadistic side of me would like to think that Dell started to go downhill when they started using the Dell Dude, but I’ll give the NYT the benefit of the doubt when it comes to a more reasonable explanation: Massive outsourcing to and insourcing from Asia is why Dell has become synonynous with junk in recent years. Lenin once said that he and his band of commies would hang the last capitalist with the rope that he sells them. I guess it’s sort of the same thing with Dell.
* I believe it. After all, most guys’ interest in a given sport during its season comes at about the end of the season, and even immediately after the end. Look at how many guys are paying attention to the NBA now. You think they care about a Golden State-Memphis regular season game in December?
* If only Colin Ferguson’s school had corporal punishment…
* Three words: Monday Morning Quarterback.
* Nationalism and devolution are about to carry the day, again. Time notes the irony in what will soon be the partition of Belgium — The very country where the EU is based, the institution that seeks to fuse Europe together, can’t stay together itself.
