Why I love the interwebz, part MCXXVI
Things I probably never would have seen without the ‘net: Hat tip to The New Old Thing. ..bruce w..
Category: Main
Why the markets crashed
There’s a great article over at Wired.com by Felix Salmon called “Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street”. In it, Salmon traces the history of David X. Li and his Gaussian copula function (see above) that led investment firms worldwide to pour trillions of dollars into complex — and, as it turned out, […]
Play O-Bingo tonight!
American for Tax Reform have released this and three other O-Bingo cards to use during Pres. Obama’s economic address tonight. Fun for the whole family! Hat tip to the American Spectator. ..bruce w..
“Help, help! I’m being repressed!”
As you may (or may) not be aware, a group of students took over a student food court at NYU and issued a list of demands. Gawker gives this brave, revolutionary effort the sensitive, thoughtful treatment it deserves: Brothers and sisters of the proletariat, you must at this very moment drop your bacon egg and […]
“In the black”
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: “It might have been!” — John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) American Poet For your viewing, with a tip o’ the hat to Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy: The singer/composer/video editor is Marian Call, who has an entire album (“Got To Fly”) in tribute […]
A nation of entitlement-seeking citizens
One of the things that disturbs me the most about Pres. Obama’s campaign and his administration to date is that it appears to be accelerating the trend in US society towards entitlement and government benefits. Of course, this kind of criticism is often seen as a thinly-veiled form of racism and/or classism. Horse crap. I’ve […]
Videos o’ the day
First, courtesy of Wizbang, comes this classic from 30+ years ago, from the movie “Network”: And here’s an equivalent from a few days ago: I’m mad as hell, myself. ..bruce w..
Are you ready for toll roads everywhere?
Here in Colorado, part of the 470 beltway is a toll road — E-470 — run by the surrounding counties and other regioinal authorities. If you have a transponder (as we do), you can use the automated toll section. Since we live at the southeast corner of E-470, we use the toll road every time […]
Who owns the US debt?
Geldpress breaks it down for you, with actual numbers: Hat tip to Conservative Grapevine. ..bruce w..
More finanicial perspective
Remember those “massive Bush/Republican deficits”? Bush was a piker compared to Obama and the Democratic Congress. From Greg Mankiw via Instapundit. ..bruce w..
