Well, the sonogram went well so I have been told I am now allowed to make it official: I am going to be a father. Erin’s at about 10 weeks right now. Cuh-RAZINESS.
Facebook is going public. Almost feels weird to say, doesn’t it? Because it FEELS so public already? Evidently Facebook’s inability to cope with China’s inability to cope with open-content engines will stunt the IPO’s initial growth. However I imagine the social media giant will in short order be ridiculously well funded AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND concurrently ridiculously outside-controlled to where it will become encumbered so badly with ads and stupid, commercial content that it will be re-placed by some MySpace 2.0 upstart because it “hasn’t sold out.” Yet.
Eat that, counter-culture. I know your game. Also my high school English teacher just blew his coronary over that run-on sentence I just pulled. And starting a sentence with a conjunction. Twice.
Romney decisively won the Florida Republican primary. He then neatly took Nevada. So, since Florida’s vote usually coincides with the primary winner (no factual data was used in making this statement so I’m basically making it up), I’m calling Romney as the Republican candidate. WOOOOO!!!!! ROMNEY 2012!!! Multiple wives for everyone!
Oh wait. That’s Newt’s thing.
Gross Domestic Product came in at +2.8% but still disappointed, growing mostly due to re-stocking inventories than actual increased demand. So, we’re not exploding with growth quite yet. Although I for one am pleased to see the plus sign beside the number instead of a minus. Any growth is good.
Unemployment rate dropped to 8.3%, but what really happened? True, we netted an increase of 243,000 jobs. However, 1.2 million other people aren't considered unemployed anymore. They have simply left the system. You see, if you quit looking for a job for long enough our statisticians figure you’re just done working forever. You have been “put out to pasture”. Given the popularity of X-box Kinect I am in no way surprised so many people have stopped worrying about work. Have you played that thing? You don’t even need real life anymore.
Obama continues to rally for a 5-10 billion dollar homeowner refinance package financed in part by a tax on large financial institutions. So banks: let me level with you. It would be SUPER if you would go ahead and refinance a bunch of performing paper from higher rates to obscenely lower rates because we freaking say so AND we’re going to tax you if you actually profit from it.
And be snappy about it. I got a re-election to win.
Now don’t get me wrong: from a ground-floor perspective I get it. I do. But I can see things through the eyes of the folks who actually are supposed to implement the plan. Doesn’t sound as thrilling to them. That being said, I still hope it goes through. Will do a lot of short-term good. I’ll keep you posted.
Congrats to the New York Giants for winning Super Bowl XLVI. Sure played some serious football out there.
FOOTBALL!!!
Quick side note: did anyone else notice that it looked like Madonna was actually singing until Nicki Minaj showed up? Then she suddenly started lip synching? Because Nicki Minaj can’t get by performing live? Then Madonna went right back to singing after Nicki was off-stage? I know you’ve got it recorded. Go watch it again. I’ll wait here.
OMG, doesn’t Nicki Minaj suck?!?
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