More "unexpected" bad news on the economy
The Housing Market, the crash of which (as most will recall) was the precipitating event of the current recession, has just hit the double dip point. Will a double …
Year: 2011
Confirmed – The economy officially stinks
So ... the residential real estate market has officially tanked. Home buyers are discouraged and prices have been falling steadily for the last twelve months, after slight gains at …
Military Tribunals: Back to the status quoe ante Barrack
a thirty month waste of time as a clueless President and his clueless Attorney General finally (reluctantly, as far from the public eye as possible) admit that the Bush …
Only In The L.A. Times
(I wanted to post this Saturday, but I got side-tracked by a few unforeseen events. This is a little late, but, no less putrid.) When in doubt, you can …
The sad thing is that the irony of it will be lost
I tripped over what follows in Facebook over the weekend:It was captioned as follows: lmfao... hey, i was totally guilty of this up until age 18, until I did …
Weekend Caption Contest™ Winners
This week's Weekend Caption Contest™ was another big hit. There were so many great captions it was not possible to honor them all. Anyway, the assignment this week was …
Tell me how does it feel?
Welcome to the counter revolution
There's No Place Like Home…
Hey gang! Been quite a while since I've written anything here. I'll get to that in a second. First and most importantly, I hope you are all having a...
"We lose our ability to say that this is important, this is unimportant"
Nicholas Carr is known for the essay positing that Google is making us all stupid. If you haven't read it, I think you should. Just the opening paragraphs resonate: …
Remembering the Sullivans
One of the most poignant stories of World War II, and the inspiration behind the film Saving Private Ryan, is the story of the five Sullivan brothers, who served …