http://www.davebrand.com/blog A Journal of Local Content with an International Focus Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:41:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_474" align="aligncenter" width="752" caption="Personal Gas Prices over the last five years"][/caption] http://www.davebrand.com/blog/?p=473 Oh Spektator. You provide a wealth of information for all things Central Asian. How I love your layout, your writing, and your ability to keep me up to date with everything I need to know going down in Bishkek. Rock on! [caption id="attachment_471" align="aligncenter" width="663" caption="Spektator Ad"][/caption] http://www.davebrand.com/blog/?p=470 When I read "dog food for adults and puppies," I immediately assumed human adults. Perhaps Dick van Patten is going for a new market. After all, in these difficult economic times, a little protein is good for you. You may have heard of this dog food from John Hodgman's remarkable ... http://www.davebrand.com/blog/?p=467 From the New York Times: A Wal-Mart employee in suburban New York died after he was trampled by a crush of shoppers who tore down the front doors and thronged into the store early Friday morning, turning the annual rite of post-Thanksgiving bargain hunting into a Hobbesian frenzy. Maybe the real "War ... http://www.davebrand.com/blog/?p=463 But what else is new? In his latest diatribe, he points out his restaurant experience: So, I have a confession and a suggestion. The confession: I go into restaurants these days, look around at the tables often still crowded with young people, and I have this urge to go from table to ... http://www.davebrand.com/blog/?p=460 from an editorial by David Sanger in the NYT: David Yermack, a professor of finance at New York University, made a case the other day in The Wall Street Journal that with the $465 billion Ford and G.M. have invested in their factories over the past decade, they “could have closed ... http://www.davebrand.com/blog/?p=458 http://www.davebrand.com/blog/?p=456 [caption id="attachment_453" align="alignnone" width="427" caption="Invisible Man #1 Cover"][/caption] *Not based on H. G. Wells. http://www.davebrand.com/blog/?p=452 [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="226" caption="Prop 8 on the move"][/caption] Stephen Colbert had Dan Savage on his show tonight to discuss Proposition 8, a ballot measure in California to ban gay marriage. The measure passed, 52% to 48%. On the show, Colbert stressed, as many other pundits have, that it was Barack ... http://www.davebrand.com/blog/?p=448 [caption id="attachment_446" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="President-Elect holds a meeting of financial advisors (not from Meryl-Lynch)"][/caption] What's amazing about this photo, and different from the last eight-years, is that it exists. Remember that in 2000, when Cheney convened his Energy Task Force, the American people had to sue him to even get a ... http://www.davebrand.com/blog/?p=445