Today is Nigel Tufnel Day

It's a Spın̈lal Tap thing

And yes, it has its own Facebook page.

If you haven't seen the move, you've missed a good laugh.

The Reality is That Obama is Preparing for a Post Election F%$# You to Environmentalists

Obama is in election mode.

He's criticizing Republicans and trying for a new jobs program.

And now the State Department as delayed a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline until after the election.

They want a study on another route, one that might be a bit less likely to contaminate the Ogallala aquifer.

This is not a policy change.  This is an cynical exercise in electioneering, and once Obama doesn't need the environmentalists, he will once again go out of his way to sh%$ all over them once again.

Taibbi Explains it All

While I have been generally supportive of Occupy Wall Street, I've also had a problem wrapping my head about the specifics of what they want.

Well, Matt Taibb had the same problem, but he grocks it now:

People want out of this fiendish system, rigged to inexorably circumvent every hope we have for a more balanced world. They want major changes. I think I understand now that this is what the Occupy movement is all about. It's about dropping out, if only for a moment, and trying something new, the same way that the civil rights movement of the 1960s strived to create a "beloved community" free of racial segregation. Eventually the Occupy movement will need to be specific about how it wants to change the world. But for right now, it just needs to grow. And if it wants to sleep on the streets for a while and not structure itself into a traditional campaign of grassroots organizing, it should. It doesn't need to tell the world what it wants. It is succeeding, for now, just by being something different.

Just go read the rest.

What Can I Say About Rick Perry That Jon Stewart Won't?

Epic Fail!

Still, this is an amazing brain fart.

It's like Texas elected Homer Simpson governor.

Media Wonks Mourn

Jim Romenesko has resigned from the Poynter Institute. 

His blog there was the go-to place for media happenings like M&A, layoffs, and scandals.

He was already weeks away from a long planned retirement from the site, when he would go part time, and start his own blog.  (Now updated on my blogroll, but the RSS feed is not yet active.)

The cause was lack of quote marks around some of the quotes.

Romenensko has been meticulously linking and attributing while summarizing for years, and has never gotten a complaint, and the fact that it is a quote is clear from context.

There is some sort of dumb ass pissing contest going on at Poynter.

Where Am I Going to Go for Dipping Dots and Bubble Tea?

This is a busy day at the mall!

It looks like the Owings Mall is going to be torn down.

Not surprising.  The mall has been in slow decline for some time, with at least one wing on the top floor shut down for the past two years.

Some of the anchor stores, as well as the theater, will remain, but it's not going to be a classic mall anymore.

I'm not sure exactly why it failed, it's located at the terminus of the Metro, and there is a rather large mixed used development in the area reaching completion.

Of note is that the operator of the mall, GGP, is in Bankruptcy, and is is owned by the Bucksbaum family, and Ann Bucksbaum Friedman is the wife of New York Times columnist (Who I would never call a schmuck because a schmuck has a head) Thomas Friedman.

I can't avoid negative effects of this guy even if I never read his incoherent crap.

Bank Failure………Thursday?

Community Bank of Rockmart in Rockmart, GA.

This is obviously out of the ordinary for the FDIC (the NCUA doesn't wait until Fridays), so I'm wondering if something is odd, as in criminal indictments to follow, or if this Thursday is Friday, because of the
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We'll find out tomorrow, when I'll post my regular update, with graph, tomorrow.