Out With A Whimper
So long as we continue to trust the people, our nation will prosper, our liberty will be secure and the state of our union will remain strong.
– George W. Bush, Final State of the Union Speech, Jan. 28, 2008
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by […]
A Wing And A Prayer
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke responded to worldwide stock market declines of 5% Monday with a 75 basis-point cut in the Fed Funds rate Tuesday morning. The Fed’s largest single rate cut in 23 years was more notable for its coming just a week before the regularly scheduled meeting of the Fed Board […]
Macworld 2008
What a difference a decade makes.
In January of 1998, you could have bought as much Apple, Inc. stock as you wanted for $4 per share. There was no iTunes, no iPod, no iPhone, MacBook, or really, much of anything save for the solid operating system software known then as Macintosh.
But even that was […]
The Way Republicans Roll
The very rich are different from you and me.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Yeah, they have more money.
– Ernest Hemmingway
Linda Chavez and her family may not be “very rich” in the sense Fitzgerald intended, but they certainly have more money than you and me, and Ken Silverstein at the Washington Babylon blog on the Harper’s Magazine website […]
Four Dead in Iowa
I know Neil Young actually wrote the lyric about Kent State and Ohio, but I just couldn’t resist.
Barack Obama came away with an exhilarating win in tonight’s Iowa caucuses, taking nearly 40% of the Democrats’ overall delegates from the state that produces a lot of the soybeans consumed in China. It only produces 7 […]
Picking the Prez - Part I
The bumper stickers say, “Had Enough Yet?”
With Iowans set to caucus tomorrow night, officially kicking off the campaign for America’s Next Top Decider, I’m pleased to put 2007 in the rear-view mirror, though I admit I’m not sanguine about the degrees of insanity and mean-spirited fear and loathing we could yet face in the […]