Update: The virus in NY is not killing people like it was in Mexico, thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster!

As a New Yorker this Swine Flu Pandemic is really scary, from what I’ve read this could be a legitimate killer. Reminds me of the SARs scare in Asia a few years ago.

Madatoms.com is one of my new favorite sites, they have tons of genius material on there. Check out this one for example about how old people are stoned and children are drunks – http://www.madatoms.com/site/blog/old-people-are-stoned

Or this chart they have of Scenester vs. Hipster vs. Hippy is pretty clever: http://www.madatoms.com/site/blog/scenester-hipster-hippie

Or this one entitled “Fuck Unions” which says, “People that make cars earn like 60 grand a year and get health care even when they retire. Which would be fine, except it makes for shitty, overpriced American cars that no one wants and then the U.S. government has to bailout the car companies.” http://www.madatoms.com/site/blog/fuck-unions

How about this one, “Saying Thank You With A BJ” needs no further introduction – http://www.madatoms.com/site/blog/saying-thank-you-with-a-blowjob

There is so much more where this came from, I can’t believe it took me this long to become a fan of your site! I highly suggest adding Madatoms.com to your bookmarks.

Interesting memos released today shows how the Bush Administration authorized using insects in detainee interrogations, yikes… Another practice disclosed is called “walling” where the detainee is thrown into a fake wall designed to make a large sound upon impact. Here’s more

I’ll tell you whatever you want to hear, just get these roaches and spiders off me!!!

The internet is abuzz about how Goldman Sachs reported such positive earnings for the first quarter. That it was largely a result of AIG one time payments they received (source), and employed every accounting trick in the book to avoid or delay reporting their losses, with the blessing of the SEC, in order to improve consumer confidence figures (source)

Q2 is going to be pretty miserable I think, contemplating buying some June Put Options

The bridge clearance was too low + camera rolling = funny stuff! Click the arrow to approach the bridge

New York State has some of the most draconian drug laws in the nation, known as the Rockefeller laws. Last night after more than 5 hours of debate in the State Senate, the reform legislation passed. It had already made its way through the State Assembly, and Governor Paterson is expected to be fully on board with putting this into action. This legislation will put discretion back into the hands of our judges, and remove the mandatory sentences. It will also allow drug treatment programs to be used as an alternative to prison. Here is a video of the reform legislation’s sponsor, Eric Schneiderman, explaining why this is so important:

State Senator Eric Schneiderman on Rockefeller Drug Law Reform from Michael Meade on Vimeo.

Zecco put millions of dollars in their clients’ accounts as an April fools joke… only problem? People entered trades with the funny money, which zecco executed! Customers will be responsible for the losses but will not realize any of the gains, and some people took million+ dollar positions! Here’s more