Monthly Archives: February 2006

bill gross is the managing director of one of the largest bond funds in the world. he is also not impressed by what he read in bush’s annual report on the economy (written by former chairman of the council of … Continue reading →

ben stein has written a piece in the new york times asking people to examine their assumptions and anger at record profits by oil companies. i think his points should be taken seriously. we, as a nation, are addicted to … Continue reading →

i am testing out the google video embed feature here (and the extreme video plugin for wordpress), with a video from the ludwig von mises institute (1995) about the federal reserve. it’s pretty long, but if you don’t feel like … Continue reading →

weird to revisit a band and think “oh yeah. this is what everyone is ripping off today”. and then have a flashback to twenty years ago and the hot goth girls that played “bela lugosi’s dead” for me for the … Continue reading →

interesting article in the los angeles times about how the iraq war has strengthened iran’s position in the region. they certainly are sassing the US, with the foreign minister advising condoleeza rice today to spend the $75M in new psyops … Continue reading →

cringely posted an interesting speculation about how apple and blockbuster could get together and make some money with an ipod video player that you could take to a kiosk in-store and load up with movies, then return home and plug … Continue reading →

i have gotten a couple of messages from friends over on myspace in the last week. i hadn’t been there in a while, and i noticed that the profile picture i had up there, me sitting contemplatively at the tiller … Continue reading →

ran across this in a book i am reading… Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. Robert Frost, The Black Cottage US poet (1874 – 1963)

the standard has published an amusing analysis of the united states’ “empire of debt”. it is packed with hilarious phrases and would be a real knee-slapper of a piece were it not for the fact that it addresses very real … Continue reading →