Time to short-sell all those five-year bonds. Turns out the world will end on December 21, 2012. At least, at that point we’ll have gone off the Maya Long Count Calendar, an ingenius system for measuring epochal spans of time… Continue Reading
The survey results are in. A slim plurality of NAPP voters (4) agree with me that the best training available to be President of the United States is to be the Governor of one of the several States. Other (3… Continue Reading
Yesterday, The Wife and I took a day trip to Santa Barbara. I came away from the experience unsatisfied and unrefreshed. I think I underestimated the toll that the just over 100-mile drive would take on me. I’d wanted to… Continue Reading
Kosovo is set to declare its independence tomorrow. This can only end well. No, no possibility of bad feelings on anyone’s part. After all, an independent Kosovo has been the lynchpin of southeastern European stability ever since the Ottomans overran… Continue Reading
Archeological evidence of sacrifical worship of a god in Greece before Zeus. Titan-worship, perhaps?
Is the guy on the left selling the same stuff today that the guy on the right was selling thirty-two years ago? I wasn’t really cognizant of politics back in 1976. I knew that “the President” was an important man… Continue Reading
This is brilliant. It helps if you’ve read Chaucer (as will be immediately obvious upon clicking the link).
The Potomac Primaries tonight settled two rather important points. First, for the Republicans, the question was whether anti-McCain animosity was so great that GOP voters would pick “anyone but McCain.” It wasn’t likely, in my estimation, but now we have… Continue Reading
Today, I watched Chinatown with a movie club. What a great movie that was. Every detail fits nicely into place. The movie club analyzes the movies from a psychological perspective, and more specifically from a Freudian perspective. But I have… Continue Reading
It’s a measure of the relative economic strengths of a country as to which nation’s currency enjoys wider acceptance. This makes it very disturbing to see that stores and restaraunts in New York City have begun accepting payment in Euros.… Continue Reading