This is it for me, at least for this chapter. I am off to join some people who don’t much appreciate voices singing out of key, and while they might be able to get over my public disdain for coaches who punt in opposing territory, it would be rather awkward to continue to point out [...]
Archive for the ‘Inspirational’ Category
The End of the Internet
Posted in Corruption, Education, Energy Policy, Health Care, Housing Crisis, Housing Policy, Industrial Policy, Inspirational, Labor Policy, Meltdown, Middle East, Miscellaneous, NAFTA, Obama, War on Terror on December 15, 2009 | 29 Comments »
Creativity
Posted in Inspirational, Meltdown on September 19, 2009 | 5 Comments »
It seems Barclays had a problem with $12.3bn of junk assets (thank you James Kwak). The damn things were liable to keep falling in value, and every fall tears a further hole in the bank’s balance sheet. What to do, what to do? Undoubtedly, someone called a meeting. And that meeting led to another meeting, [...]
May The Road Rise Up To Meet You
Posted in Inspirational, Miscellaneous on August 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Edward Kennedy, dead at 77. We will see plenty of reverential soft-focus pieces on the news over the next few days, stories about the “Lion of the Senate,” about his advocacy for the downtrodden, about the long-lost era when Democrats were not the party of Wall Street. I’d like to see something a bit more [...]
Merci
Posted in Health Care, Inspirational, Miscellaneous on August 1, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Wow. Big thanks to James Kwak at Baseline, Mike Konczal at both The Atlantic and Rortybomb, Felix Salmon at Reuters, Orangederange at Digg, and everyone who took the time to comment recently. Only eight of my posts have even broken the hundred view mark; to have one just shy of ten thousand is rather surprising. [...]
Tranquility Base
Posted in Corruption, Foreigners, Industrial Policy, Inspirational, Military, Miscellaneous on July 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Forty years yesterday man walked on the moon. It was a beautiful accomplishment, perhaps the fitting coda to the giant waves of nationalism that engulfed the planet from 1914-1945. It was also, like any piece of pure art, completely pointless.
Good To Be the King
Posted in Inspirational, Miscellaneous, Movies on July 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, it’s ten days old; still have to post the Guardian’s explanation of Megan Fox’s casting in Transformers: Talking to Megan Fox who was in town for the Transformers 2 premiere, I found her more forthright and intelligent than her performance in the mega-hit would suggest. The role demands that she drapes herself over motorbikes [...]
Rules and Laws
Posted in Foreigners, Inspirational, Labor Policy, Miscellaneous, Obama, Supreme Court on July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
After my cranky comment that Douglas Blackmon’s Slavery by Another Name had moved back the goalposts on my quest to get through the Pulitzer Prize winners for General Nonfiction (21 of the past 25 down, but only 31 of 51 overall), I figured I should go ahead and get it out of the way. I’m [...]
Ambition
Posted in Inspirational, Miscellaneous, Movies on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Over at the Idea Locker, Dodson asks whether “ambitious” is a compliment or an insult, and quotes Lyndon Johnson: Ambition is what makes a creature of a man. There are two models of success: James Bond and John McLane.
If I Had a Billion Dollars
Posted in Inspirational, Miscellaneous on April 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I would be just as lame as I am now. However, thanks to Egotastic, we get to see how Richard Branson spends his time on Necker Island. It is not healthy to think about, and it is not safe for work, both due to content and the possibility of throwing yourself out your office window. [...]
Airline Complaints
Posted in Foreigners, Inspirational, Miscellaneous on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What a wonderful melange of English humor, Indian food, and ten hours in coach: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/4344890/Virgin-the-worlds-best-passenger-complaint-letter.html Made me think back to every one of the million and change miles I had the pleasure of experiencing over the past four years.
