About 250 Taliban insurgents took on 30 US Marines in Afghanistan. Guess who won? The vicious attack that left the humvee destroyed and several of the Marines pinned down in the kill zone sparked an intense eight-hour battle as the platoon desperately fought to recover their comrades. After recovering the Marines trapped in the kill […]
Hmm…. Was it in tune? The Baldwin piano discovered in the Bells Neck woods appears to be in perfect working condition and had a matching bench as if it had recently been played. The piano was discovered Saturday by a woman walking along a path inside a conservation area at the woods. Another question police […]
From Bloomberg: The U.S. government is prepared to lend more than $7.4 trillion on behalf of American taxpayers, or half the value of everything produced in the nation last year, to rescue the financial system since the credit markets seized up 15 months ago. Might I also add that the Treasury is refusing to disclose […]
I am sad to report that some of the leading indicators show that the second wave of the ongoing financial crash is getting ready to start. In spite of the fact there was a huge rally back above 8000 on the Dow late Friday, the stock market is not what is driving this thing. The […]
This guy pretty much nails it: Flying still seems magical to me. Hat tip to Bad Astronomy. ..bruce w..
It makes you wonder how earth (and humanity) ever survived the Medieval Warm Period or the Holocene Maximum: Hat tip to Instapundit. ..bruce w..
I’ll add “software engineers” as well, not to mention CIOs and CTOs. My latest Baseline column is up, and in it, I discuss just why you should read these books — or, if you have read them already, why you should re-read them. ..bruce w..
In a picture: Hat tip to Greg Mankiw’s blog. ..bruce w..
Michael Lewis — who wrote Liar’s Poker back in 1989 — gives a fascinating, detailed chronicle of just how Wall Street managed to cause the current financial maelstrom that’s hurting all of us these days. Much of the article focuses on Steve Eisman, who kept asking uncomfortable questions until he figured out just how screwed […]
And speaking of nailing it…
…Victor Davis Hanson pretty much pounds the nail on the head, ten times in a row: 1. Four years of high-school Latin would dramatically arrest the decline in American education…. 2. Hollywood is going the way of Detroit…. 3. All the old media brands of our youth have been tarnished and all but discredited…. 4. […]
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