Can’t believe I missed this when it came out; if you haven’t seen it yet, check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
Archive for July, 2008
Last Lecture
Posted in Inspirational on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bummer About Barry
Posted in Finance, Hillary Clinton, Housing Crisis, John McCain, Obama, Politics on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Curiously, this is being trotted out as a positive sign: http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5896 I am not surprised there are morons in SF and NY and Santa Monica and Berkeley who don’t understand that rent-control is not “pro-tenant” or “anti-landlord”; it is “pro-tenants who arrived a long time ago” and “anti-people who recently arrived or cannot afford to [...]
Worldwide Taxation
Posted in Finance on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Carl Levin is all worked up about UBS’ role in letting Americans park money in Switzerland without telling anyone: http://abcnews.go.com/images/Blotter/REPORT-Tax%20Haven%20Banks%20(July%2017%2008).pdf I would turn it around – why does the US still have worldwide taxation in the first place? We are pretty much the only country that taxes its citizens’ activities outside its borders. In this [...]
No Kidding
Posted in Dick Cheney, Finance, George W. Bush, Politics on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At least this view is starting to trickle out: http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/07/idiots-fiddle-w.html If the Bushies were actual Goldwater conservatives, we would have a screwed-up society, but at least we would have the means to fix it if we ever so chose. But the real model of Dubya/Cheney is more Suharto – just loot absolutely everything by nationalizing [...]
Rudy?
Posted in Rudy Giuliani on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Good to see the Republicans state their case so directly. Because we know we never want the party that let our country be attacked to sit in the White House… http://gawker.com/tag/no-words/?i=5025578&t=great-moments-in-political-advertising
Getting Around Arizona
Posted in John McCain, Obama, Politics on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lucky Cindy said this; if Michelle Obama said this it would prove she doesn’t understand America: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/14/cindy-mccain-in-arizona-t_n_112695.html Weird thing is, Arizona actually has roads, and very nice roads at that. It is dry, never freezes, was recently developed, virtually the entire population lives in two metro areas that have just about sprawled into each other, [...]
More Fannie / Freddie
Posted in Finance, Housing Crisis on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/2008/07/krugman-on-gses.html
About Time
Posted in Foreign Policy, George W. Bush, Military, War on Terror on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Glad to see the right-wing media finally catch up, ever so slowly, to what has been obvious throughout the Afghan Adventure: our military has done a terrible job. And the incompetence begins with the commander in chief. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/10/inside-the-ring-83281533/ How does someone become a pundit without (a) having accomplished anything; or (b) being a broadcaster? Following [...]
Wes Clark for VP?
Posted in Military, Obama, Politics, Wes Clark on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have been a bit lukewarm about Wes Clark – not only was he a Hillary supporter, he had the painful “Mary, help” moment (http://dir.salon.com/story/opinion/feature/2003/09/19/clark/index.html) – but he is making a decent argument for the VP slot. It will take someone with an impressive military resume (Silver Star for combat in Vietnam, went on to [...]
