A rising tide lifts all boats. A falling tide lifts all boats, puts them on the repo man’s trailer and hauls them away to be auctioned off.
As regular readers know, one of my journalistic pet peeves is stories about how great it is to be on the winning side of a tanking economy. It is [...]
I’m generally not a huge fan of social networking sites. Myspace, Facebook and their ilk are lovely ways to get in touch with friends you haven’t heard from in ages, but beyond that, their value is limited. They are made even more useless by the recent trend of placing products and businesses on equal footing [...]
President Bush has a habit of saying things which many consider shameful and offensive (and sometimes downright hilarious in their idiocy). His recent, odious and politically-motivated insinuation that Senator Obama’s foreign policy diplomatic initiatives were akin to the ‘false comfort of appeasement’ advanced by some pre-WWII American politicians looking to avoid war with Hitler, [...]
As human beings, we are not always right. Far from it, actually. And even when we are right, evolving times might render many of our “right” ideas either obsolete or “wrong.” What works in one era doesn’t necessarily work in a future one. Yet many times we take the “rightness” of an idea for granted. [...]
As we’ve noted before, there really is no privacy on the internet. Microsoft are literally handing the keys to gain access to your computer to the police. Malicious types are busy stealing personal data by the truckload from anyone and everyone. We should know better than to be shocked to hear someone new is going [...]
Education should be treated as a societal investment in itself. We ought to use our tax dollars to fully subsidize the cost of tuition for anyone who wants to go to college. As they say, give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him [...]
I was actually a bit excited when i first heard the news that Microsoft were extending support for XP in order to license it for ultraportable laptops. With excessive system requirements of Microsoft Vista, which was meant to replace XP but seems to have little chance of actually doing so, many light weight computers simply [...]
There was a time when, if you screwed up enough, there were consequences. Lets say your woeful incompetence exacerbated the destruction of an American city. There was a time that would have immediately cost you your job. Not in the Bush administration. Under Bush, such utter imbecility is rewarded with a pat on the back.
So [...]
I have to admit, I’m not the most informed guy when it comes to the Federal Reserve. Slogging through that Wikipedia article could take the better part of a Saturday (what with clicking around to find explanations for unfamiliar terms and phrases). For the quick, quick version, we turn to Gary North:
The Federal Reserve System, [...]
Money makes the world go round, and there are few places that is more true than in Washington. Both parties spent millions and millions of dollars launching ad campaigns to sell their product, politicians owned by the big donors who give them those millions.
Political power derives from the checkbook. Supporters look as much to the [...]