Daily Archives: January 10, 2013

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Project Runway All-Stars Season 2 Episode 11 Liveblog

project-runway-all-stars-1 Oh, hai there! Is this season almost over with? Because, really, I am missing Tim and Heidi. I’m also tired of watching Emilio’s long, slow slide into losing and Anthony Ryan’s inexplicable wins.

Ok, so last week, Ivy was sent packing, and in a move that surprised absolutely no one, the final four remained the final four, with no one being sent home. Joshua’s eyebrows continue to frighten small children. And adults. Nevertheless, this version of the Real Woman challenge once again showed that Joshua can be kind of sweet when he’s not running around as a walking caricature. Continue reading

AIG, Bank of America Remind Us of the Brilliance of Capitalism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9xuyB5mWdA

If you spent anytime watching the NFL playoffs on the old TV box over the weekend, it’s likely that you came across AIG’s not-terribly-subtle and entirely self-congratulatory commercials touting both their work in recent disasters and  gratitude towards the American public and the federal government that bailed the firm out during the 2008 crash. This being America, home of freedom, capitalism and blind plutocratic entitlement, that’s not all AIG was up to the last few days. Continue reading