It’s becoming a well-documented fact that the US stock market these days is rallying on bad news and crashing on good news. But nowhere is this more evident than on days when unemployment figures are announced. Yesterday, the market rallied…
Tag: Politics (n.): a strife of interests masquerading
Public Service Announcement: Please Stop Killing Your Children Over Your Employment Situation
This one is only the latest in what is becoming just about the fastest growing trend of the last 7 months. People lose their jobs, go home, and slaughter their family. Sometimes they spend a couple frustrating weeks or even…
Most Babies Chronically Depressed, New Study Warns
Groundbreaking research out of the University of Iowa today has confirmed what many have long suspected: most babies are clinically depressed. A shocking 83% of babies have been found to have the hallmark symptoms of a newly identified strain of…
2008
Somewhere along the way, Time Magazine lost its way. Maybe it was the influence of AOL, long nicknamed “A-O-Hell” by my generation, which itself is somewhere between the nickname of “Generation Y” and “The Millennial Generation”. I’ll take either one,…
Sign Post Revisited
People are looking for places to put their anger these days. I don’t know who is responsible for the above depicted action on our front lawn any more than I know who is responsible for skyrocketing the stock market toward…
Words of the Prophets
Transcript of a conversation between a Homeless Guy (HG) and myself (SC) on a sidewalk in Berkeley this morning, between 24-Hour Fitness and the Downtown Berkeley BART station entrance at Shattuck & Addison. Given that I was rushing to BART…
Sign Post
Buddy, can you spare three-quarter mil? I am gradually coming to terms with the fact that our house may never sell. This is not the worry that most people saying that sentence have – we of course don’t own our…
Walking on Broken Glass: Kristallnacht and Thanksgiving
Today is the 70th anniversary of the infamous Kristallnacht, the pogrom that history remembers as the opening salvo of the Holocaust. It was a gargantuan riot that killed 91, hauled 30,000 into concentration camps, and left thousands of synagogues and…
There’s No Truth in Pravda; There’s No News in Izvestiya
Today, my workplace sent me this article about the impact of the economy on the services that we offer. At first I was excited because my work actually contributed to the article. It was a real manifestation of “letting the…
My Public Ballot
Ever since the American political disaster known as the year 2000 (who knew the real Y2K glitch would be in a voting booth at the end of the year instead of everywhere at the beginning?), I’ve been a staunch advocate…