Pictures

Almost the last on this financial keystone cops caper. Here's a bunch of pictures where artists try and explain what happened, hopefully a little clearer than my explanations have been. I think GOOD Magazine's is pretty good.

27 visualizations and infographics to understand the financial crisis.

Bizarre Sight of the Day

Since I've moved to the South, there's occasional guys selling confederate battle flags out of RVs by the side of the road. Georgia only took the Confederate Battle Flag off their state flag a few years ago, after all.

The other week, I noticed one of them had a bunch of Confederate flags, and a flag of the Obama HOPE image. Which made me laugh, since I doubt there's much overlap between the audience for Confederate flags and Obama voters. Maybe they're trying to get into a wider audience. They do have the Confederate flag/pot leaf flags, after all.

Then yesterday, I saw one that took it a step farther. A flag, first half Obama, second half Confederate flag. I almost went back and bought one, just for the sheer bizarreness of it. But I didn't, 'cause I'm broke. I'm trying to figure out the audience for that, besides post-post-post-post ironic hipsters.

Deja Vu

Okay, so there's ads for this new Nicholas Cage movie, where there's a random string of numbers that correlate to disasters and how many people are doing to die in them. And they're almost at the end of the numbers *DUN DUN DUN!*

Now, am I crazy, or wasn't there a movie a few years back with that exact same premise? I don't remember the name, or actors, or anything, but I could have sworn there was already a movie with the same idea.