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akwhitacre

  1. @ArlingtonPatch "Beat" that is
  2. @ArlingtonPatch @BlueRibbonBBQ @Redbones Blue Ribbon. A certain patience in the cooking leaves everything juicier. Can't be the b'eyed corn
  3. So very, very nice outside that I walked into town for lunch. Now I'm convinced it's Friday. #weatherwin #weatherfail
  4. @nickgrossman Hm, not sure. Consequences to borrowers and banks, and thus vetting of borrowers, is different.
  5. @nickgrossman Kids go bankrupt over years, as opposed to when 2.8m mortgages failed in just in 2009 alone
  6. @nickgrossman Only problem is, there wouldn't be a clear precipitating event for the burst
  7. @nickgrossman And as the son of a former Sallie Mae "VP for Marketing of College Products", I'd (and he'd) have to agree
  8. @nickgrossman New Yorker & Economists are reporting on theories that student loans/tuition is the next bubble to burst.
  9. Same Marc Maron from the early Comedy Central days?
  10. @JeffChausse @rikaru Angry...communist…capitalist…pigs?
  11. Not a fan of cats, but def a fan of @maxogden's sharing of #catmapper
  12. @derek @xeni Mission Control in '69 looks like a bunch of men whispering "please be right, please be right…"
  13. @OddLetters I've seen images of my own brain but this is much creepier
  14. Jerry Orbach Way flic.kr/p/c1R2zm
  15. @NiemanLab Oh…not underwiring?
  16. @NiemanLab More cleavage!
  17. Vietnam vet receives Medal of Honor for valor in…Cambodia 1.usa.gov/IYx7Jy
  18. Oof yeah, just read any Aust.-Hung. stories MT @pedropizano: 15) Reporting on the Balkans in peacetime can be just as challenging as wartime