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.
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.
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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.
For-profit colleges are a tough question for me. Like the Walmart/College pairing.
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).
How should they operate their endowments? To reduce them?
Further to the end of R2k
Human trafficker pitching tonight for the Rangers.
Wow, I never heard that story before… was I living under a rock, or was it just not wide news at the time?
Me either.
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!
Interesting
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.
Oh wait, it was the pollination of fruit that they were concerned about, not honey.
Tangentially related
Hunh. What other person in the news the last couple years does this woman remind you of?
Jon Carroll has a rare stinker
Sounds like Lil’ Urb’s work.
Also, hurrah congestion pricing!
Clearly, people in the South hate Obama because of his low BMI.
Hey, check out thems Mormons.
Also, BMI sucks.
There’s a polygamy joke in there somewhere.
Crisp cf, Barton 1b, Jackson lf, Suzuki c, Kouzmanoff 3b, Sweeney rf, Ellis 2b, Gross dh, Pennington ss
There’s mother-fuckin’ maggots on the mother-fuckin’ plane!
Derivative of Eisenstein.
Eff you Ben Sheets
Ding!
Good strategy of Crisp to bunt so that Barton won’t.
Perturbed Slusser is perturbed.
How is all this a surprise to her? Remember the whole thing when Mulder was clearly injured and they kept riding him anyway?
More perturbation
Slusperturbation?
I heart Drumbeat Slusser.
Pattersons are more fun on other teams.
Sheetseses would be more fun on other teams
I enjoy my sheetses more than other people’s
Confused Yahoo is confused.
As is Gameday
Covelli!
Fantastic concept: get 100s of people to besiege the BP International HQ with an all-day vuvuzela concert.
Bengie Molina-> Rangers
If he starts right away, he should be there by September.
2% pay raise! suck it, shitty economy!
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.
If you made the kind of trades he does, would you want to return calls?
TC – no spoiler here, just saying that last year’s crew would have dusted the current crop. It’s extremely weak so far.
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.
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?
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?
Home. Run.
… and the OGL admits to grooving the pitch.
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?
Quality NYT Snark
Boehner…deep-drilling…