Worst of the Worst

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Now that the session is a wrap, Texas Monthly has released it’s Best and Worst of the Session list. Regarding Governor Big Hair:

Nothing better sums up his performance this session than his itinerary for Thursday May 28. With deadlines bearing down on a fractious Legislature, much of the people’s work still unresolved, he left Austin to attend a fundraiser in Houston for Congressman Michael McCaul, where he presented talk show host Rush Limbaugh with an Honorary Texan Award. From his State of the State address to his secession silliness to sine die, Perry preened for the hard-core Republican base.

If Rush Limbaugh being named an Honorary Texan doesn’t inspire you to go vote, I’m not sure what to tell you.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

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In what’s described as an “expanded edition” of Pride and Prejudice, 85 percent of the original text has been preserved but fused with  “ultraviolent zombie mayhem.” For more than 50 years, we learn, England has been overrun by zombies, prompting people like the Bennets to send their daughters away to China for training in the art of deadly combat, and prompting others, like Lady Catherine de Bourgh, to employ armies of ninjas. Added to the familiar plot turns that bring Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy together is the fact that both are highly skilled killers, gleefully slaying zombies on the way to their happy ending.

Going to go ahead and forcefully assert that my girlfriend is a whole different league of awesome for buying this.

Legos + Zombies

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Equals Awesome. Complete with lego mini-fig head explosions.

What Not To Do

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Among the lessons to be learned from the GM bankruptcy: how not to run a company.

In its bankruptcy petition, G.M. said it had $82.3 billion in assets and $172.8 billion in debts. Its largest creditors were the Wilmington Trust Company, representing a group of bondholders holding $22.8 billion in debts, and affiliates of the United Auto Workers union, representing nearly $20.6 billion in employee obligations. (more)

That’s a lot of red on the books

Latvian Stimulus

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This seems like about what you’d expect in the economic policy department from a former Soviet State.