It’s really a shame that I’m late on this one, but Paul Newman’s death is a great loss to me and to the world in general. Cool Hand Luke is my favorite of his movies, and it remains a powerful statement about the strength of individual will struggling against unjust authority. Furthermore, it gave name [...]
Archive for November, 2011
I almost couldn’t believe it, but upon arriving home from work, I found that the House had rejected the bailout plan. Naturally, the stock market tanked on the news, and there will be much wailing of knashing of teeth in the next few days from financial market CEOs and the talking heads, but the House [...]
So now the feds are bailing out AIG, one of the largest insurance agencies in the world. (Thus making this commercial hilariously ironic.) I seem to remember back in March when the Bear Stearns deal was worked out being told by all the “serious” people that if the government didn’t give some kind of bailout [...]
Today was the seventh anniversary of the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center. It’s hard to believe that it’s been that long, but when I think about how different the world feels now as it did when that day began or when it ended, it all makes sense. I actually didn’t hear many [...]
Scientists in Switzerland turned on the Large Hadron Collider today. Granted, they haven’t started to actually collide protons yet, but so far the collider has failed to produce a Earth swallowing blackhole, but most people I’ve talked to have opposed turning on the collider on the extremely small chance it might destroy us all. All [...]
My friend Randall McElroy has a great post at the Distributed Republic about individual moral responsibility when living under a morally depraved system–as has been the lot of almost all people in recorded history. McElroy writes, Watching videos of police brutality and reading stories of dozens more every week is seriously depressing. U.S. presidents have [...]
Again, I’m a little late on this, but since news seems to just keep breaking on Sarah Pallin, I’m not sure that’s a bad thing. Everyone seems to think this is a brilliant political move, and I agree that it’s smart, but it’s not going to tilt the election to McCain. The main boost Pallin [...]
