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1. The Democrat hits lefty..

Also:

Said GOP team captain Joe Barton (R-Texas), “The most important thing about tonight is that we exceeded our charitable goal by so much. The Boys and Girls Club are the real winners here.”

But in another, more real sense, the Democrats were the winners: 13-5.

2. If you wish to be a more open-minded thinker, adhere to some extreme and perhaps unreasonable fandoms.

Hey, that’s FK’s motto!

3. Italy indicts seismologists who failed to predict earthquake.

4. Remember this game? The A’s drew five walks off of Cliff Lee and Kirk Saarloos struck out 11 Indians. Those were the days when (almost) everything Billy touched turned to gold.

5. For-profit colleges: the new subprime?

Eisman believes that there is an uncanny resemblance between the financial situation of the for-profit colleges and that of the banks before the collapse…In both cases loans—mortgage loans in the bank case, student loans in the for-profit college case—were made to people who were at high risk of defaulting, and in both cases “rating agencies” (credit-rating agencies in the case of the banks, college accreditation agencies in the case of colleges), were afflicted with a conflict of interest because they were paid by the institutions whose securities (in the case of the banks) or educational programs (in the case of the colleges) they were rating.

Eisman thinks that the federal government is likely to lose $275 billion on its Title IV loans over the next decade. These defaults will not have the macroeconomic consequences of the financial collapse, but they will slow our economic recovery and increase the federal deficit.

Eisman’s presentation is here and is worth a browse.

49 thoughts on “Spillover Grill

  1. nevermoor Jun 30,2010 8:35 am

    For-profit colleges are a tough question for me. Like the Walmart/College pairing.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • monkeyball Jun 30,2010 9:23 am || Up

      I have a bigger problem with putatively non-profit universities that operate their massive endowments {snerk} like for-profit entities (cf Yglesias on Harvard/Yale).

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • nevermoor Jun 30,2010 9:40 am || Up

        How should they operate their endowments? To reduce them?

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  2. nevermoor Jun 30,2010 9:40 am
    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  3. salb918 Jun 30,2010 10:18 am

    Human trafficker pitching tonight for the Rangers.

    • Poppy Jun 30,2010 10:29 am || Up

      Wow, I never heard that story before… was I living under a rock, or was it just not wide news at the time?

      There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
      • nevermoor Jun 30,2010 10:38 am || Up

        Me either.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • Future Ed Jun 30,2010 1:01 pm || Up

          I think the bigger news is that he can spend 5 years excluded from the country and still develop well enough for the call up.

          We welcome you 2013 AAA Monterey (mex) Rivercats!

          I have $5. No I don\'t.
  4. salb918 Jun 30,2010 10:23 am

    Interesting

    A new study has suggested that cell phone radiation may be contributing to declines in bee populations in some areas of the world.

    I recall that Haagen Daz was funding some of this research, since the loss of bees was driving up the cost of honey, potentially increasing Haagen Daz raw material expenditures.

    • salb918 Jun 30,2010 10:25 am || Up

      Oh wait, it was the pollination of fruit that they were concerned about, not honey.

    • Poppy Jun 30,2010 10:38 am || Up
      There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
  5. monkeyball Jun 30,2010 10:58 am

    Hunh. What other person in the news the last couple years does this woman remind you of?

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  6. monkeyball Jun 30,2010 12:40 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nevermoor Jun 30,2010 12:53 pm || Up

      Sounds like Lil’ Urb’s work.

      Also, hurrah congestion pricing!

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  7. monkeyball Jun 30,2010 12:59 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • JediLeroy Jun 30,2010 2:40 pm || Up

      Hey, check out thems Mormons.

      Also, BMI sucks.

      az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
      • nevermoor Jun 30,2010 2:49 pm || Up

        There’s a polygamy joke in there somewhere.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  8. andeux Jun 30,2010 1:40 pm

    Crisp cf, Barton 1b, Jackson lf, Suzuki c, Kouzmanoff 3b, Sweeney rf, Ellis 2b, Gross dh, Pennington ss

    TINSTAAFK
  9. FreeSeatUpgrade Jun 30,2010 2:12 pm

    There’s mother-fuckin’ maggots on the mother-fuckin’ plane!

    “I felt like they were crawling all over me because it only takes one maggot to upset your world,” she said. “And as they’re telling us to stay calm and seated, I see a maggot looking back at me and I’m thinking, ‘These are anaerobic, flesh-eating larvae that the flight attendants don’t have to sit with.'”

    …The passenger who brought the spoiled meat on board did not get back on the plane and was put on another flight.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • andeux Jun 30,2010 2:20 pm || Up

      A shaky cell phone video shot by Adamo as passengers deplaned shows a small white maggot wriggling across a seat.

      Derivative of Eisenstein.

      TINSTAAFK
  10. nevermoor Jun 30,2010 4:38 pm

    Eff you Ben Sheets

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  11. andeux Jun 30,2010 4:49 pm

    Ding!

    TINSTAAFK
  12. andeux Jun 30,2010 4:53 pm

    Good strategy of Crisp to bunt so that Barton won’t.

    TINSTAAFK
  13. lenscrafters Jun 30,2010 5:08 pm

    Perturbed Slusser is perturbed.

    • monkeyball Jun 30,2010 5:13 pm || Up

      How is all this a surprise to her? Remember the whole thing when Mulder was clearly injured and they kept riding him anyway?

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • monkeyball Jun 30,2010 5:13 pm || Up
      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • Poppy Jun 30,2010 5:32 pm || Up

        Slusperturbation?

        There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
    • batgirl Jul 1,2010 10:05 am || Up

      I heart Drumbeat Slusser.

  14. mikeA Jun 30,2010 5:11 pm

    Pattersons are more fun on other teams.

    • monkeyball Jun 30,2010 5:36 pm || Up

      Sheetseses would be more fun on other teams

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • nevermoor Jun 30,2010 6:02 pm || Up

        I enjoy my sheetses more than other people’s

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  15. andeux Jun 30,2010 5:22 pm

    Confused Yahoo is confused.

    TINSTAAFK
    • monkeyball Jun 30,2010 5:26 pm || Up

      As is Gameday

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  16. andeux Jun 30,2010 5:24 pm

    Covelli!

    TINSTAAFK
  17. FreeSeatUpgrade Jun 30,2010 8:55 pm

    Fantastic concept: get 100s of people to besiege the BP International HQ with an all-day vuvuzela concert.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  18. andeux Jun 30,2010 9:45 pm

    Bengie Molina-> Rangers

    TINSTAAFK
    • green star oakland Jun 30,2010 11:00 pm || Up

      If he starts right away, he should be there by September.

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
  19. salb918 Jul 1,2010 6:59 am

    2% pay raise! suck it, shitty economy!

  20. salb918 Jul 1,2010 7:13 am

    Sabean? Sabean? C’mon Brian, I know you’re there. Pick up the phone. I just…I just want to talk, okay? C’mon Brian, pick up.

    • nevermoor Jul 1,2010 9:09 am || Up

      If you made the kind of trades he does, would you want to return calls?

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  21. sslinger Jul 1,2010 9:06 am

    TC – no spoiler here, just saying that last year’s crew would have dusted the current crop. It’s extremely weak so far.

    • FreeSeatUpgrade Jul 1,2010 10:00 am || Up

      Agreed. Even the top few contestants–Angelo and Kenny, maybe a couple others–would’ve gotten crushed by Beardy and the Volts. And the bottom of this season’s group seem terrible.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • andeux Jul 1,2010 10:13 am || Up

        My impression has been that “the pack” is as good as in previous seasons. But, yeah, there certainly hasn’t been anyone at the top who’s wowed us the way those three did from the very beginning last year.
        Is there a need to avoid spoilers today?

        TINSTAAFK
    • batgirl Jul 1,2010 10:11 am || Up

      Heavens yes. Totally weak. And Padma’s outfits keep getting stranger and stranger–I think that bird was targeting the giant ball of yellow when it crapped on the table. Gail is growing on me.

      And again not to spoiler, but what the hell was that drug confessional that seemed to be taped with a blue screen?

  22. nevermoor Jul 1,2010 10:54 am

    Home. Run.

    From the early 1930’s until the modern story broke in 2004, the newspapers that covered waterboarding almost uniformly called the practice torture or implied it was torture: The New York Times characterized it thus in 81.5% (44 of 54) of articles on the subject and The Los Angeles Times did so in 96.3% of articles (26 of 27). By contrast, from 2002-2008, the studied newspapers almost never referred to waterboarding as torture. The New York Times called waterboarding torture or implied it was torture in just 2 of 143 articles (1.4%). The Los Angeles Times did so in 4.8% of articles (3 of 63). The Wall Street Journal characterized the practice as torture in just 1 of 63 articles (1.6%). USA Today never called waterboarding torture or implied it was torture.

    The irony that Serwer notes — and I completely agree — is that in claiming they were working so hard not to take “a side,” the journalists who wouldn’t call waterboarding “torture” were absolutely taking a side and handing a victory to the Bush administration, which convinced newspapers to stop unambiguously describing this crime as they had done for decades prior to 2004.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • monkeyball Jul 1,2010 12:01 pm || Up
      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • nevermoor Jul 1,2010 12:07 pm || Up

        Just terribly depressing stuff. My political party does not believe that the term “journalist” should apply to people employed by the papers referenced above. Will they now stop calling themselves that term?

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  23. nevermoor Jul 1,2010 11:02 am

    Quality NYT Snark

    Think about that. The year is only half over, so that means Boehner is averaging about 1.25 fund-raising events per day. No wonder he looks tired. No wonder he doesn’t know that the deep-water drilling moratorium only involves deep-water drilling.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"

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