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Archives for October, 2008
Obama
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 on October 30, 2008 Well, last week I finally did it. I put up an Obama sign in the yard. Not that anyone sees my yard. But now that the Editors of Seed magazine have come out with an endorsement, I may as well join the crowd and openly announce my anonymous support, here on the Internet. I don’t…
Greenspan is SHOCKED
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 on October 26, 2008 This little (19-second) gem is from Calculated Risk (the other video there, Greenspan and The Simpsons, is good too): That says it all. It is the short version. The longer armchair version is this: All economic activity is composed of four basic elements, or “atoms” is the Lucretian sense. Granted, this is not the most…
Block African witchcraft curses against McCain and Palin NOW!
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 on October 21, 2008 This is one of those things that take a minute to figure out if it is serious, or a parody. Block African witchcraft curses against McCain and Palin NOW! Jim Bramlett Sep 28 2008 04:12PM Dear friends: THIS IS EXTREMELY SERIOUS. Minutes ago I spoke with friend Dr. Norman G. Marvin, M.D. and he…
Carborexia is the New Green
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 on October 20, 2008 Carborexia is not a word. Any string that garners only six hits on Google is not a word. But the string appears in the New York Times, so maybe it will be a word soon. Perhaps even by the time you read this. Carborexia is a cute play in the neologism game. It refers…
What McCain and Obama and the Moderators Forgot
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 on October 16, 2008 I’m sure I am not the only one who was underwhelmed by the series of Presidential debates. Here is what the candidates and the moderators forgot…
World Food Day; NASCAR On Skid Row
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 on October 16, 2008 NASCAR, for the non-TV-watching geeks out there, is an auto racing organization. It operates the second-most popular televised sport in the USA. In May, they were troubled, just a bit, by rising fuel costs. One team, Hendrick Motorsports, said that the higher prices would cost them an extra $760,000 this year. Perhaps this is,…
AIG Executive Excesses
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 on October 15, 2008 Now we learn that AIG execs just spent $86,000 on a hunting trip. Oct 15th, 2008 | CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A handful of top executives from American International Group Inc. spent thousands of dollars during a recent English hunting trip, even as the New York-based insurer asked for an additional $37.8 billion loan from the…
New Financial Plan
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 on October 15, 2008 This one is illustrated. The photos speak for themselves. Source It’ll work about as well as the Paulson-Bernanke plan.
Krugman Wins Nobel; Markets Rally
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 on October 13, 2008 Paul Krugman was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. “It’s been an extremely weird day, but weird in a positive way,” Mr. Krugman said in an interview on his way to a Washington meeting for the Group of Thirty, an international body from the public and private…
The Problem with Bipolar Disorder
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 on October 13, 2008 The Archives of General Psychiatry has an open-access article about bipolar disorder in childhood (Child Bipolar I Disorder). I started to write about that. But then, as often happens, I stumbled upon something else. The LA Times has a consumer-oriented article about the journal article. It is one of those OK-level news articles. One glaring…