lent

Yesterday I went to Clarksville to hang out with the fam and carve pumpkins with my lil brother. I left for Nashville at about 3.

Didn't get home til 8. Fifty miles. Five hours.

Adam Proteau over at the Hockey News has excerpts from an interesting interview with NHLPA head Paul Kelly posted today, and it's well worth harkening to the man who's lent credibility to an organization that was faltering in the wake of the Great Lockout. While Kelly's professionalism is welcome, his ideas still need to be vetted:

My working theory is that we are shaped and motivated by narrative, that we are who we are in great part because of the stories we tell about who we are and how we understand ourselves in relation to other people through the stories they tell about themselves and also about us.

A former legislator is generous with himself in his bid to recapture his former house seat:

Since joining Kiva, a website allowing users to provide micro-loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries, my family and I have made over 20 loans ranging from $25 to $75.

Barack Obama has now lent his name to emails requesting money to the DSCC and DCCC. Ben Smith notes:

Like a Catholic swearing off sweets for lent, our President also makes sacrifices:

Conveniently for my weekly book reading, I got hooked up with the Ooze blogger program, and now I get books shipped to my door every once in a while to read, enjoy and review.

Citigroup has canceled plans to sell its EMI debt. The bank had lent about $4.9 billion to finance Terra Firma's acquisition of EMI and was planning to sell the debt to third parties. Risky debt is hardly popular these days. Citigroup will keep EMI's debt and sell off $12 billion of loans to the buyout firms.