“He lost his money in a geyser bank, Ho ho ho ho ho, First it floated and then it sank, Ho ho ho ho ho.” -Traditional Clayton Family Song, c. 1987 trip to Yellowstone My family used to write songs…
Category: Politics (n.): a strife of interests masquerading
A Snowball’s Chance on Mars
Well, I was wrong. The market didn’t go up 900 points today; only 485. (Third largest point total gain ever.) Even dead cats can only bounce so high. Or maybe it’s just waiting for official October. I woke up late…
On Certain Tuesdays in October
Ah, you say, but it’s not October yet. Sure. I don’t know of any site that sorts stock market activity by days of the week, but I have a guess that Tuesdays are running at a substantial net loss. Not…
Where Credit is Due
I don’t believe in credit. To crib an old line from Nikki Hay, it’s not that I don’t believe it exists or happens, it’s just that I don’t believe it really should. Or in using it myself. In my last…
Take Me Away, Country Roads (or: If On a September Eleventh a Traveler)
It is morning in America. Early morning here, just past six on a Friday morning. I’d normally be just stirring, an hour’s timezone west, wondering what the last day of the week was about to bring at work, wondering if…
Searching for Direction
I’ve been playing the stock market for about four months now. On days like most of the ones this past week, they say that the market is searching for direction. As though the market, each day, were a living entity…
Thursday Roundup: Peace, Hope, Truth
Peace So it looks, thankfully, like the Olympic Ossetia War may be over almost as quickly as it started. If you’ve been under a rock for a week (or in Vegas, as I was for the bulk of the war),…
Ted Stevens Wiretapped Video
Russ & I slaved all night over a hot Photoshop to bring you this:
Cinderella Sweeping Up
“Grandpa, tell me what it was like back in the old country before the fall.” “Well, what do you want to know?” “I dunno. What was it like just before the fall? Did anyone know what was about to happen.”…
Waving the False-Flag
“There was an exodus of birds in the trees ’cause they didn’t know we were only pretending and the people all looked up and looked pleased and the birds flew around like the whole world was ending.” -Ani DiFranco, “Independence…