Monthly Archives: May 2010

FriendFeed: #justsayin If Gordon …

FriendFeed: #justsayin If Gordon Brown is promising the LibDems “immediate” electoral reform legislation in return for their joining a coalition government with him, what’s to stop them from joining until the legislation passes, then immediately bolting and demanding a new election? http://bit.ly/bc6JhF

Million, billion, what’s the difference?

[I’ve bumped this post up, because it got quickly drowned on the homepage yesterday by U.K. election coverage. -ed.] Thursday afternoon’s stock-market PANIC!!!!! may have been caused, in large part, by a trader typing “b” (for billion) instead of “m” (for million). Charles Fenwick suggests a Budweiser commercial based on this event: Real Men of Genius Here’s to you, Mr…. Read more »