links for October 6th through October 9th
by 1115 at 5:30 pm on October 9th, 2007 in Bullets- WaPo: Buyout Firms to Avoid a Tax Hike - Hedge fund managers, for no earthly reason, get to pay income tax at the capital gains tax rate (15% instead of 35%). This is a $6 billion tax break to very rich people. Dems just decided not to fight to repeal it. Viva Reid-Pelosi!
- BBC: Disk technology takes Nobel Prize - The debasement of the Nobel Prize for Physics — now they give out Nobels for enabling the iPod? Look for this to be the most controversial Physics prize in years.
- TPM: Have Mercy, Have Mercy! - Joe Scarborough manages to define the meaning of “having balls” by exhibiting what the complete opposite of that looks like. Hilarious!
- AP: Federal Judge Stays War Objector Trial - The U.S. military — if at first they don’t succeed, they try, try, try again.
- Paul Krugman: That is cool - Six short lines is all it takes to comprehensively remove Bush’s trousers.
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