The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
Distracted pedestrians stumble into danger
http://online.wsj.com/article/AP50e3f5f32487449299f8201a13bd4ad5.html
Personally I think our gene pool needs a bit of scrubbing, so losing some of these people would be a fine thing for me. However, since that won’t be allowed, creating no-texting-while-walking laws are …
Why Capitalism Has an Image Problem
Charles Murray examines the cloud now hanging over American business—and what today’s capitalists can do about it.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443931404577549223178294822.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
I got no idea who this Charles Murray guy is and am more than a bit …
GDP likely slowed without strong consumer spending
http://money.cnn.com/2012/07/25/news/economy/GDP-consumer-spending/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2
This is what happens when a strong (financially) government elects to engage in austerity during an economic downturn. The downturn goes on and on and on and on and growth, if there …
Romney in Piers Morgan interview: Stop attacking success
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/26/romney-in-piers-morgan-interview-stop-attacking-success/?hpt=hp_c2
I am now committed to voting for Obama (as much as I detest him; I think I would rather have voted for Ron Paul (and I detest him as well)). I …
Protectors of Wall Street
A vital new book from the TARP IG, and yesterday’s vote on a Fed audit, reveal some disturbing truths
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/26/protectors_of_wall_street/
I knew that the situation was bad, but I guess I missed out at how bad …
Welcome to post-legal America
How the Magna Carta became a minor carta
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/23/noam_chomsky_on_post_legal_america/
In general I am not one to believe in conspiracy theories. That attitude has evolved over my life, though. As a child I was intensely into UFOs, …
From an Unlikely Source, a Serious Challenge to Wall Street
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/from-an-unlikely-source-a-serious-challenge-to-wall-street-20120720
I like this idea _a lot_! I am generally not a fan of using eminent domain for anything other than public utilities or the equivalent and I have a …
Not much is grabbing me today, though I will offer up a couple of articles that might interest my regular reader(s). The first is by good old Matt and his shouting into a vacuum on the LIBOR scandal. More interesting …
Rules of American justice
An American banker is shocked to encounter accountability for his acts in Britain because the U.S. provides none
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/09/rules_of_american_justice/
This is apropos my earlier post, so I figured a bit of repetition might help (though I …
I have mentioned the LIBOR fixing scandal before. However, it is amazing to me that it is virtually unheard of on news (paper, magazine or TV) and even much of the blogosphere (who the heck invented that silly term?). …