Monthly Archives: November 2008

Why Current Comparisons To The Great Depression Are Wrong

In the media these days, we’re hear­ing a great deal of noise con­cern­ing whether we are headed towards another Great Depres­sion. Lots of words are being writ­ten about the like­li­hood of such an event hap­pen­ing but there are many things that are dif­fer­ent about 2008 and 1929 (not the least of which is inter­net porn …

November 23, 2008 – 8:44 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Economics | Comments (0)

Only In Texas

That is absolute Texas to its core. Via Chaffin

November 20, 2008 – 7:10 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Texas | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Sportsmanship And Honesty Still Exist

One of the things I like best about golf is the fact that it is largely a self-policing sport. Play­ers are in charge of mak­ing sure they fol­low the rules and to a large degree, they do this qui­etly and with­out fan­fare. Some­times it makes head­lines. It’s refresh­ing to see, not only in sport, but …

November 19, 2008 – 10:36 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Sports | Tagged | Comments (0)

Veterans’ Day

“Bloody” Omaha Beach, Sep­tem­ber 2008

November 11, 2008 – 6:51 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Why We’re Not Out Of The Financial Woods Yet

Con­trary to quite a few pop­u­lar opin­ions you may be hear­ing these days, the root cause of our finan­i­cal melt­down is not the decrease in value of home across the coun­try. Instead, it’s the failed mon­e­tary pol­icy of cen­tral banks around the world over the last 20–30 years, specif­i­cally our own Fed­eral Reserve. In fact, …

November 7, 2008 – 1:37 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Amanpour: World Welcomes Obama With Open Arms (Well, Except Russia)

Chris­tiane Aman­pour has this to say in rela­tion to Obama get­ting elected. She claims that the world is wel­com­ing Obama with open arms. Of course, she doesn’t men­tion Rus­sia who just this morn­ing flipped Amer­ica the bird on the mis­sile shield. And since when did we care what Al Jazeera or Iran had to say? Look, …

November 5, 2008 – 2:28 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Tagged | Comments (0)

Why We Don’t Want Third Parties In Our Elections

A lit­tle after elec­tion humor to cheer you up.

November 5, 2008 – 1:47 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Random Thoughts On The Election

Huge turnout is some­thing to be proud of. You hear peo­ple con­stantly bemoan­ing the fact that Amer­i­cans don’t vote but this time they did. That’s excit­ing for our coun­try. The pop­u­lar vote is com­ing in 51% to 45% which is quite close. Remem­ber how impor­tant the pop­u­lar vote was sup­posed to be in 2000? If …

November 5, 2008 – 8:42 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Comments (0)

Election Day 2008

Today, we’ll decide on a new Pres­i­dent. By most accounts, we’re going to elect Barack Obama. There have been lots of wail­ing and gnash­ing of teeth from con­ser­v­a­tives that this is the end times, that Amer­ica is falling into the end of an empire morass that almost always tends towards more gov­ern­ment, slowly becom­ing sta­tist. …

November 4, 2008 – 8:26 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Tagged | Comments (0)

On Being An OCD Kid

Not that I was but I bet this would be what it was like.

November 3, 2008 – 10:06 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)