John Hughes: Ur doin' it wrong, aksually

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Friday August 07, 2009 · 10:05 PM PDT

2009/08/07 · 22:05

C'mon, people, this isn't very complicated. John Hughes is dead. It's Friday night. Friday night belonged to John Hughes. So here's where the cinematic rubber hits the Blu-Ray road, so to speak.

Aristodemus

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Friday March 27, 2009 · 10:47 AM PDT

2009/03/27 · 10:47

Maybe it’s happenstance, but I maintain that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner cribbed from my diary of last week in his testimony before Congress yesterday, March 26. Democracy Now reported on it this morning.

Mr. Geithner said

Our system failed in basic fundamental ways. Compensation practices rewarded short term profits over long term return.

Note that he identified the need to reform executive compensation AS THE FIRST IN HIS LIST OF OUR FINANCIAL SYSTEM’S FUNDAMENTAL FAILURES.

Yep. No disagreement.

But why wait for a comprehensive package of reforms? Pass the statute now. This (should be) easy as pie. I've taken a little time to draft a sample statute to show just how easy it should be.

Aristodemus

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Saturday March 21, 2009 · 7:53 PM PDT

2009/03/21 · 19:53

All this is intended to do is show how easy it should be to legislatively cap executive comp for cash and other benefits (drivers, etc.) and make ALL VARIABLE AND PERFORMANCE-BASED COMP LOCKED UP until FIVE YEARS AFTER the executive leaves the company.

That's a disincentive to pursue short-term goals at the expense of the company's long-term performance and in incentive to act solely in the long-term interests of the company.

That's it. You can't do this with a tax.

But it’s meant to demonstrate how easy it should be in practice to effectuate, per the front page, the policy President Obama's administration is reportedly considering regarding regulation of executive compensation. Link to New York Times article.

Caveats and open invitations: this is not within my typical area of practice, so anybody who’s savvy with federal tax, securities, ERISA, etc., please feel to comment or correct.

Aristodemus

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Friday December 19, 2008 · 11:12 AM PST

2008/12/19 · 11:12

By now everybody is familiar with the Detroit Debacle, and of course the parties drawing the short straw are the workers being laid off -- "temporarily" for now -- by Ford, Chrysler and GM.

What to do? What to do?

Well, America still dominates one world market: guns.

Now, now, I know this won't exactly be a popular idea with many on DKos. But the facts are there.

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what should we do with the Detroit Debacle?

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what should we do with the Detroit Debacle?

turn plowshares into swords

9 votes

say "fuck 'em" to the Big 3 and let the chips fall where they may

6 votes

have each of us pledge to send $1000 to a UAW fund to help make Xmas less shitty for the laid-off

1 vote

take the bail-out money and give it only to workers as tuition subsidies so they can retrain for whatever career they want

4 votes

I prefer when Aristodemus only makes obscure pop-cultural references

3 votes

Karl Rove is really a Talosian

Aristodemus

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Tuesday October 21, 2008 · 7:10 PM PDT

2008/10/21 · 19:10

Karl Rove is really a Talosian.

Who has seen Oliver Stone’s "W?"

Good movie, even for Oliver Stone. Usually Ollie hits you in the face with a shovel for three hours, screaming over and over "I’M MAKING A POINT HERE!" That he usually isn’t sure what his point is, is, uh, besides the point.

But back to W. Several characters were eerily dead-bang. Nice little Ricky Dreyfus from Beverly Hills is a dead ringer for Vice President Vader – I mean, Vice President Cheney.

Let's not even get into how Rummy is portrayed by Scott Glenn -- the man with the lowest body-fat in Hollywood, while Li'l Rummy's voice is done by Iggy Pop -- the man with the lowest body-fat in the music industry. More coincidence. Or is it?

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Are Karl Rove or Toby Jones really Talosian?

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Are Karl Rove or Toby Jones really Talosian?

yes, but going there is the only capital offense in the United Federation of Planets

6 votes

dear lord, we hope not

0 votes

Ahhhh! It's all starting to make sense now

8 votes

We're all weak-minded fools

0 votes

No, but Karl Rove has never seen what a human looks like, either

6 votes

fuck if I know -- Aristodemus's references are all too obscure

5 votes

Palin v. Biden in symbolic logic

Aristodemus

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Thursday October 02, 2008 · 4:56 PM PDT

2008/10/02 · 16:56

Well, actually, this isn’t really symbolic logic, and this doesn’t technically satisfy the requirements for a diary.

Three paragraphs, right?

No artificially inserting paragraph breaks?

Guilty. This isn’t really a diary.

Okay, here’s the debate tonight:

Wolverine > Barney Fife

Biden ≈ Wolverine

Palin ≈ Barney Fife

Bloodbath. Snik. Snickity-fucking-snik.

For a slightly more serious approach to the debate (that will actually do some good), read Angry Mouse's Debate Donating Game: Round 2.

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Will it be Wolverine v. Barney Fife?

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Will it be Wolverine v. Barney Fife?

Snik. Blood. Snik. Snik.

0 votes

Nope, it'll be Muhammad Ali beating up one of Jerry's Kids.

0 votes

You'll wish you had the rights to put it on Pay-Per-View.

0 votes

Jesus will magically imbue Palin with the wisdom of all twelve Apostles.

3 votes

Oh gosh, no! Snik. Ahhhh! Snik.

0 votes

I can see Russia from my house!

4 votes

All of 'em, Katie.

7 votes

Do Not F*ck With Amy Goodman

Aristodemus

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Tuesday September 02, 2008 · 4:20 PM PDT

2008/09/02 · 16:20

The first rule of having an overbearing law-enforcement presence at a political convention is: you do not fuck with Amy Goodman.

The second rule of having an overbearing law-enforcement presence at a political convention is: you do not fuck with Amy Goodman.

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