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The Fugacity of Hope

Posted on: Thursday, February 26th, 2009 in: Serious Stuff...

Where is President Obama’s audacity of hope these days? He seems to have the audacity to create fear. As in, if you don’t pass the largest spending bill in the history of the Union, the nation and quite possibly the entire universe will collapse.
It’s time President Obama considers the first law of financial thermodynamics: Money […]

Read it.

Posted on: Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 in: Serious Stuff...

The latest column from Colby Cosh in the National Post.
Does anyone wonder why Obama is under outragoues pressure to “do something” about the economy, when he is plenty smart enough to know that nothing he does will achieve anything but weaken the economy in the long run? If you wonder, read Colby’s assessment of the […]

Please stab me to death

Posted on: Saturday, February 21st, 2009 in: What's Up

Anyone needed further convincing that The Economist magazine has descended from champion of free market liberalism to cheerleader for nanny-state socialism need look no farther than the latest column in its technology monitor:
COULD household knives be made less dangerous without being made less useful? In countries such as Britain, where the latest figures suggest that […]

Go Figure

Posted on: Friday, February 20th, 2009 in: Serious Stuff...

I just love this headline:
U.S. consumer prices rise, calm deflation fears
Wow. Who could of guessed that the US Fed printing money as fast as the old printer will go would cause inflation to pick up. But what is worse is that somebody out there thinks that this is a good thing.
There are these things called […]

It’s lunchtime!

Posted on: Thursday, February 12th, 2009 in: What's Up

Nothing better than grabbing a little bit of Chinese food after a long morning of boring meetings. And in the Chinese food genre, there is nothing better than a appetizer than “three screams rat”.
The markets cater to the unusual culinary tastes of Guangdong province residents, famed for a willingness to eat anything. Some even savor […]

Gotta get me some of that!

Posted on: Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 in: What's Up

Did you hear the news? A-Rod took steroids!
Really, who gives a crap about baseball players and steroids. You want a serious sports drug scandal, how about this one:
Chess grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuck refused to take a drug test following one of his matches, and nearly got suspended for two years.
Lets see here, what do you suppose […]

Smarter than He Seems

Posted on: Monday, February 9th, 2009 in: Serious Stuff...

Maybe Joe Biden isn’t as big of an idiot as he has led us to believe.
His recent quote:
“If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, if we stand up there and we really make the tough decisions, there’s still a 30 percent chance we’re going to get it wrong.”
Only 30%? This […]

Battle of the Bulge

Posted on: Friday, February 6th, 2009 in: Serious Stuff...

The Inquirer reports on a fantastic tale spun up by a group of Canadians calling themselves scientists.
Guess what. When the global warming causes all the ice in Antarctica to instantly melt, the water will magically gather right on top of Washington DC. I kid you not.
If only we could get this to happen before […]

Cover your eyes!

Posted on: Sunday, February 1st, 2009 in: Just Goofy