There just doesn’t seem to be anything worth writing about today (or the last several days, though I wasn’t browsing the news sites, just glancing through the WaPo). Same old police state, same old corrupt politicians, same old ignorant sheeple …
Category: OriginalContent
A question regarding interest rates
A friend of mine sent me an email asking to leverage my MBA education to learn about government manipulation of interest rates. I decided to go ahead and respond to him through a blog post since I figured it might …
Will Democratic success result in the extinction of our species?
How Republicans persuaded women to re-elect President Obama
For the activists of Emily’s List, working to improve women’s political representation, Republicans like Todd Akin were a gift
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/15/republicans-persuaded-women-reelect-obama
Yes of course my headline is a bit of hyperbole, but I …
Thank the <deity of your choice> its over!
It looks like Obama is the winner and without much controversy, so thankfully it seems we will be spared endless images of hanging chads. It also appears he won the popular vote as well so the GOP can’t complain that …
Tain’t the global warming, stupid!
I wasn’t going to comment on Sandy and its depredations along the coast but after seeing article after article (or perhaps the exact same article hawked at many places, I never actually read any of it) babbling about how Sandy …
Third-party candidates
I wasn’t able to work on this yesterday (I stayed home) because ever since I upgraded my machine to Ubuntu 12 I have had random freezes when I surf the web (not always associated with web surfing, once it hung …
Green Party, Jill Stein
This is one post in a series looking at the various third-party candidates. For a summary, please see here
Jill Stein’s positions overall appear to be rather unrealistic given that, if elected, she would have to work with a Congress …
Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson
This is one post in a series looking at the various third-party candidates. For a summary, please see here
Gary Johnson started out as a GOP candidate but when he failed to get any traction in the primaries he decided …
My views
Prior to my looking at the third-party candidates and reviewing them I am going to quickly describe my views so my reader(s) know from what direction I cast my gaze. I doubt this will be all encompassing (and I am …
Endangered species!
Is the middle class an endangered species?
After losing ground for four decades, middle America increasingly looks doomed. Here’s how it happened
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/24/is_the_middle_class_an_endangered_species/
This is likely to be a rambling post, brace yourself… I have felt in my gut for …