Nov 28, 2009


No good puns for this, but SZ plans to eat this tater.

Nov 26, 2009

Sociology, I can never quite tell if you are truly an inspirational visionary or overwrought fatuous banality. Probably I will spend a lifetime trying to decide.

Nov 19, 2009



Oldest rapper alive!

You always knew we would see the day.

Nov 15, 2009


Vodaphone--London Heathrow Airport, 2008

Nov 14, 2009

Nov 13, 2009

Without studying it much, I have never been convinced that a system of capping and trading environmental degradation would ever actually work for mother earth. My main grievance is that the right to pollute is given to preexisting firms; whereas I think that the carbon credits issued by government should go to every tax payer.

This report from Democracy Now points out some of the logical holes in the cap & trade scheme.

We debated health care--now how about the environment? I think I might side with Ptera on this one.

Nov 11, 2009

Is this true? If so, why can't I find any news reports on it? Even the matrix is caught in the matrix.

Nov 4, 2009

Nov 2, 2009

Nov 1, 2009

SecTreas: “The big risk we face now is that banks are going to overcorrect and not take enough risk.”

Is this risk of no risk a poorly formulated sentence, a new form of double negative, or a pithy diagnosis of the present state of the economy?

I lean towards ruling that Geitner's "big risk" meant to say "big problem", since "big risk" implies that we are going all in on long odds for big payout. But I do not see any potential jackpot from our muddling so-called crapshoot.