Op-Ed Contributors - How High Gas Prices Can Save the Car Industry - NYTimes.com

via Albert Lin's Facebook Posts by Albert Lin on 11/15/08
Source: www.nytimes.com
A variable fuel tax could pay for a sound transportation policy agenda beyond the bailout.
-- A good idea, but I wonder though that there might be a strange market distortion in the price of gasoline by introducing this tax. I.e. the oil companies and refineries would have incentive to raise price to the point where the tax generates no income for the gov't. --

2 S.I. Men Charged With Hate Crime - NYTimes.com

via Albert Lin's Facebook Posts by Albert Lin on 11/15/08
Source: www.nytimes.com
Two white Staten Island men face hate crimes charges after they were arrested in the beating of a black teenager on the night that Barack Obama was elected president.
-- Baseball bats. Sick. --

Op-Ed Columnist - How to Fix a Flat - NYTimes.com

via Albert Lin's Facebook Posts by Albert Lin on 11/13/08
Source: www.nytimes.com
Somebody ought to call Steve Jobs and ask him if he’d like to run a car company for a year. It wouldn’t take him long to come up with the G.M. iCar.
-- not sure whether Steve Jobs would even consider it, but this was the hook to read an opinion on why we shouldn't just throw money at the automakers as it seems they want the gov't to do. --

Bill Ackman on PBS Charlie Rose

via Large Type Reviews by Al on 11/12/08
A hedge fund manager views governments through the lens of business and says that the US is very solvent despite the huge deficits.

He says that GM should be allowed to go bankrupt and restructured to remove debt from the balance sheet by having creditors relinquish claims to be paid back in exchange for equity in the new company which has a chance to make money after redoing all the labor

For South, a Waning Hold on National Politics - NYTimes.com

via Albert Lin's Facebook Posts by Albert Lin on 11/11/08
Source: www.nytimes.com
The pattern of support for Barack Obama may signify that the South has lost its Election Day significance.
-- For all the New York times columnists who said Americans aren't racist, they omitted mention of the South. --

Op-Ed Contributor - All Apologies - NYTimes.com

via Albert Lin's Facebook Posts by Albert Lin on 11/11/08
Source: www.nytimes.com
I sometimes find strangers’ manners so lacking that I have started engaging in an odd kind of activism. I call it reverse etiquette: I supply the apology that they should be giving me.
-- Wow, New Yorkers really are rude. Incredible. I shouldn't take living in CA for granted. --

Deprogramming Jihadists - NYTimes.com

via Albert Lin's Facebook Posts by Albert Lin on 11/9/08
Source: www.nytimes.com
The Saudi government is trying to rehabilitate violent Islamists by addressing their psychological needs. Could therapy be the best sort of counterterrorism?
-- Angry young Saudi men eager to defend Islam while having money and means seem to be the key to funding and maintaining global terrorism. --

Op-Ed Columnist - It Still Felt Good the Morning After - NYTimes.com

via Albert Lin's Facebook Posts by Albert Lin on 11/9/08
Source: www.nytimes.com
Almost every assumption about America that was taken as a given by our political culture on Tuesday morning was proved wrong by Tuesday night.
-- Interesting that Rich rejects the center-right label for the US, but we still seem well to the right of the enlightened and happy Europeans. --

Live Flesh (1997)

via Large Type Reviews by Al on 11/9/08
Not among Almodovar's best, but still an interesting human drama about a pizza delivery boy who falls for a drugged out girl. He confronts the girl after she has a change of heart and doesn't want to see him anymore and somehow the cops show up to arrest him. There's a struggle for a gun and a cop is shot. The boy goes to jail for six years. Now that he is out he wants revenge. The story is
 

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