Linkpost: 09/29/08
- Interview with US General David Petraeus (Spiegel)
- Lehman Brothers was an economic 9/11 (Anne Applebaum, Telegraph)
- Calling J.P. Morgan (L. Gordon Crovitz, WSJ)
- A Main Street Rescue (WSJ)
- What we can learn from Chile's financial crisis (Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ)
- E Pluribus Hokum, or When the gamblers bail out the casino (Spengler, Asia Times)
- US wealth in shrink mode (Spengler, Asia Times)
- Catharsis, then common sense (Charles Krauthammer, RCP)
- A Bailout for All Our Bad Decisions? (Mark Sanford, WaPo)
- A Model Program Avoids Foreclosure Pitfalls (Lawhawk)
- Beg, Borrow, or Steal (Steve Chapman, Reason)
- Meltdown Myths (The Antiplanner)
- Whatever is good for Goldman … (John Gapper, FT)
- Who killed New Labour? (Economist)
- Is “emerging markets” obsolete? (Economist)
- False dawn in Myanmar (Larry Jagan, Asia Times) Jagan is usually an apologist for the junta. Did they deny him journalistic access or something?
- Obama's Brown Shirts (Tom Rants)
- Victoria Newspaper Letting Readers Pick The Stories (Hair Balls)
- Mayor cusses, entire f-ckin' city falls into swoon (Slampo's Place) It’s great to see the return of Houston’s most interesting net scribe.
- Comcast Enhances Its Rep for Excellent Customer Service While Desecrating the Memory of Our Town's Namesake (Slampo's Place)
- Ten Reasons Drayton McLane Might’ve Rejected Bud Selig’s Plea to Get Out of Town (Ballz)
- Valhalla closed indefinitely (Rachel Carlson, Catherine Bratic, Cindy Dinh &Ariel Schnitzer, Rice Thresher) Wrong. Just wrong.
- UH's President Acknowledges Pissing Off A Lot Of People (Hair Balls) Next, she should apologize for what has been some harebrained decisionmaking at UH pre and post-Ike.
- Mincberg says he'll do a better job keeping the lights on in Harris County (Isiah Carey's Insite) Wow, this little Terry Abbott screed completely undermines 1) the previous association with Bill White — since many of these same “criticisms” can be directed towards him and 2) Mincberg’s previously “positive” campaign. The polling must look pretty bleak for such a bipolar change of strategy.
- Houston airports face $14M clean-up bill (Roger Yu, USA Today)
- Cooler tube rides in pipeline, says mayor (Dan Milmo, The Guardian) A small move in the right direction. It can get pretty nasty down there when it’s only moderately warm up top.
- Wal*Mart pulling the plug on their music DRM Server (CrunchGear) Another example of why it is stupid to buy DRM music. Don’t do it!
- Can the Cowboys go undefeated in the regular season? (Clarence Hill, FWST) *ahem* No.
- Cowboys let their guard down against Redskins (Randy Galloway, FWST)
