We still are not finding Stephen Colbert’s Americone Dream ice cream locally. In the meantime, we’re sampling another Ben & Jerry’s flavor, Vermonty Python, which was introduced a year or so ago.
It’s good! But at our house we still give the nod for best ice cream to Häagen-Dazs Mayan chocolate.
Given the date, I would suppose this is the first cartoon in The New Yorker that made reference to the stock market crash of October, 1929. Would be interesting to know if it was drawn before the event.
Leonard Dove in The New Yorker, November 2, 1929
Blogging newspaper editor Mike Dobbs has posted some scans from a 1939 magazine article called “The Movies Launch a Kindergarten of Democracy”. [Link] The pictures are scenes promoting the Warner Brothers cartoon “Old Glory”, directed by Chuck Jones. Here’s the cartoon, released in 1940, in all its patriotic, rotoscoped, Technicolor™ old glory.
http://youtu.be/utkBu-mqi-c
Notice the two words that are missing from the Pledge of Allegiance? And of course there are two states missing in the map of the United States.
Anne Frank (1929-1945)
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Colbert’s Americone Dream ice cream is now Ben & Jerry’s #1 flavor? Where the heck are people finding this stuff? It’s nowhere around here yet.
With all of the talk and concern about predatory lending practices, why is it that Web sites are still covered with ads like this one?
I don’t know what the girls in it have to do with getting a mortgage, but one gets the impression the ad is intended to appeal to non-white customers. I think the use of the term sub-prime should be stopped. The uninformed might get the impression it has something to do with the Prime Rate, and not unqualified borrowers.
The problem isn’t just with those who aren’t credit-worthy. The herd mentality that led to the stock market surge in the late 90’s simply jumped over to real estate. Professionals traded up to a bigger house than they could otherwise afford. The assumption was an $850,000 home would be worth $1m in no time. Combined with the hope, if not expectation, that interest rates wouldn’t go up significantly, some people with healthy incomes are now in trouble because the value of their house is down, and their adjustable mortgage rate is up.
