Two for Tuesday

Tuesday means we get to double dip on some stuff from around the web. First up I'd like to throw a shoutout to the governor of Illinois for being both unscrupulous and really, really stupid. The unscrupulousness is SOP in a politician, but you have to work hard to be as egregiously stupid as he was over the past few weeks. Full credit to you, sir!

And here's a little op-ed piece (from the Newspaper of Record) explaining why Joe the Plumber shouldn't get a book deal. Enjoy.

In case you thought today's link dump was liars and idiots, here's a piece on Wayman Tisdale: former NBA player and cancer survivor. Word around the league for years is that he's been one of the nicest guys since forever, and recent experiences haven't changed him.
okay then.

I am an international financier, Part the Third

A while ago I wrote a post about loaning some money through Kiva.org (see button in the sidebar for a link - i'm too lazy to put it here). I got another small reimbursement from the woman that Kiva helped me (and others) loan money to. No text updates, but she's paying on time so I'm hoping that it's going well.

here's the text of a previous email from the group that organized the loan:

Karomadjon is very happy, because due the loan from KIva she increased the volume of her goods and she could paid education for her children and also she could buy new clothes for daughter.Her business is gradually takes rate of groth.In thew end of this month she plans to purchase vegetables and other food product for winter season.She is very thankful for KIva.

If that doesn't warm your heart then you're a miracle, because you don't have one.