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Something to bubble about: Bubble blogger’s bloviations hiss to a blessed, if temporary, silence…

This nests pretty deep, so hang on tight. First, SFHomeBlog.com cites The Walkthrough weblog at the New York Times, which in turn quotes a letter received from the The Marlin Real Estate Bubble weblog. Here is the letter: I’ve lost my faith, at least for Marin County. Despite all reason and rationality to the contrary, […]

Overnight News: Dollar Tree can no longer promise that “everything’s a dollar!” – but it’s still where your dollar will go farther.

“You know what’s best about dollar-store dog toys? They only cost a dollar!”I love dollar stores, but more than that, I love Dollar Tree. The biggest Dollar Tree on earth is just up 99th Avenue, and, accordingly, mine is the idolatry of Dollar Tree: Sex toys, dog toys and all manner of helpful doo-dads and storage […]

Overnight News: Can we infer an inverted medical consensus from a choir of liars?

“Inferences are fun. You can make them out of almost nothing. Ask me how I know?”Hydroxychloroquine worked all along. This was obvious all last summer, through all the lying on TV. Ivermectin apparently works, too, given the chorale of hysteria against it. We have foreign news sources to tell us what our own propaganda stooges won’t, […]

Overnight News: Victoria’s real secret? Self-loathing, apparently.

“Do you want to understand dog-food marketing? Neither the brand-specifier nor the decision-maker is the dog.”What to make of marketing? One business after another has thrown Claude Hopkins, et seq., under the bus – in pursuit of what, exactly? None more daft than Victoria’s Secret, surely. They have elected to reflect their actual clientele, rather than […]

Overnight News: Redlining Redfin redlines the most-redlined city in America.

“It’s okay if you don’t like dogs. Just don’t insist to the world that you do.”Redfin is coming to Boston – if you consider the remote outer-suburbs Boston. From the link: Redfin is making offers on single-family homes and townhomes built after 1900 in parts of Middlesex, Norfolk and Plymouth counties. The company expects to expand […]

Overnight News: How to stop letting the champions of universal genocide get away with murder.

“Puppies!”I had a text from “Steve at Common Cause” entreating me to lobby for some piece of legislation. I responded thus: “Does your plan entail taking private property by force? Since we both know it does, accept that you are an exponent of crime and ultimately genocide. Please do better with your life. And take […]

Overnight News: Life and leisure among ‘the dots’: Is television’s past its best future?

“There are actually only two kinds of classic-TV stations: Disabled-kids ads or abused-animals ads. Choose wisely.”We call them ‘the dots’ – the subdivided channels that emerged, mushroom like, from the HDTV rules. It’s classic TV with long commercial breaks, much like ‘the independent stations’ when you were a kid. They’re ‘the dots’ because of the way […]

Overnight News: Why Johnny 5 can’t close: No rainmaker, no rain.

“Since they taught pitching machines how to play fetch, I’ve pretty much lost interest in robots.”How lame is real estate marketing? Zillow is making money with this for a tagline: “When you’re ready for a change, we’re ready to help.” Of course, they’re not selling to the public. Check the MLS: They’re terrible at selling houses. […]

Overnight News: When you throw everything you’ve got at your pet monster – and it just makes him stronger…

“The dirty secret about dog shows? There are no show dogs or work dogs or hunting dogs. Just lovable mutts who can be trained to do anything.”I had a bunch of impeachment links, but I ditched them. If you care, you know what to Doogle. I expect I’ll wait to see the highlight reel. I’m much […]

Overnight News: Great news! Housing up, up, up! Tragic news… Dollar down, down, down…

“Why are people so unlucky at house-training puppies? They’re not dogs, that’s why. The whole trick to it is demonstration – and its lingering aroma.”Happy days are here again! – so pucker up. When you know you’re being lied to, when do you know you’re not being lied to? Maybe if you took a poll… Here’s […]

Overnight News: DOJ sues NAR. Nothing that matters changes. Redfin rejoices.

“Treats for trouble is how you get more trouble.”I saw Housing Wire’s story on the Department of Justice’s anti-trust suit against the National Association of Realtors, and I thought: “Yeehaw!” But then I read Glenn Kelman’s odd rejoicing, and I realized that the “lawsuit” is a done deal, and nothing that matters will have changed. Vide: […]