December 2008
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So as the (secular) Christmas season winds down, I...
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Musical fruitcake
My tolerance for James Taylor has always been low. I find him to be overpraised by Boomers, for whom he is a touchstone of their illusory “rebellious” youth. So it was with some trepidation I was subjected to his Christmas album, a Hallmark collection. Terrible, just terrible. And his duet with Natalie Cole on “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” turns a fun, sexy song into...
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Ah, the drunkest Christmas love song ever.
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This is probably the sexiest Christmas tune...
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Kicking off an abbreviated week of music of the...
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The past is prologue
I love these two quotes, about 4 paragraphs apart, in the story of Capital One buying Chevy Chase bank:
The savings-and-loans, including Chevy Chase, concentrated on a particular kind of risky mortgage loan called an option adjustable-rate mortgage, which allowed a borrower to defer part of the required monthly payment for up to several years. As those payments come due, many borrowers are...
“That crowd was rocking out to ‘Danger Zone’ when he plummeted into...”
– Best Onion story in a while. Tip of the hat to Fink for pointing it out to me.
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