Monthly Archives: January 2009

More Alcohol For The Alcoholic Please

Obama says he wants to cut mort­gage costs so that the credit can start flow­ing again. Yup, because that’s exactly what we need, more peo­ple to buy homes they can’t afford. Sweet idea. Lead­er­ship these days amounts to throw­ing shit at the wall and see­ing what sticks, I guess.

January 31, 2009 – 9:56 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Comments (0)

Resignation

I’m a log­i­cal sort of guy and things that don’t make sense to me often result in high lev­els of frus­tra­tion. I just think every­thing is log­i­cal in the world. Things that aren’t cause me grief. But some­times, I just have to resign myself to not under­stand­ing things. Things like how the Ari­zona Car­di­nals are …

January 30, 2009 – 11:10 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged | Comments (0)

Mint.com Props

I don’t think I’ve ever men­tioned it here at the Exper­i­ment but one of the most fan­tas­tic pieces of soft­ware I use reg­u­larly is Mint. Mint tracks your finances, spend­ing and invest­ments and it does it extremely well, far bet­ter than Money or Quicken. There is very lit­tle for you to do other than ver­ify …

January 30, 2009 – 8:50 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Finances | Tagged , | Comments (0)

That Popping Sound You Just Heard

That was the sound of envi­ron­men­tal­ists’ heads explod­ing all over the world because accord­ing to this arti­cle at the Tele­graph, recy­cling might actu­ally be con­tribut­ing to green­house gases instead of reduc­ing them. Heh. The inter­nal con­flict must be hor­ri­bly dehi­bil­i­tat­ing. On an unre­lated note yet still in the same arti­cle, we get this graf: Some town …

January 28, 2009 – 10:21 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture | Tagged | Comments (3)

Can You Cure An Addict By Giving Him More Drugs?

Only if you want to kill him. Car­o­line Baum dis­cusses this very topic on Bloomberg. Imag­ine a doc­tor who, faced with an alco­holic, diag­nosed more alco­hol as a treat­ment. A doc­tor like that would be thrown out of the med­ical pro­fes­sion and right­fully so. Yet, our polit­i­cal lead­ers, when faced by a cri­sis cre­ated by …

January 28, 2009 – 10:09 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Economics, National Issues | Tagged , | Comments (0)

CrossFit Presentation

Recently, Greg Glass­man, co-founder along with his wife of the Cross­Fit method­ol­ogy, gave a pre­sen­ta­tion at the National War Col­lege on Cross­Fit. It’s in three parts but all are free from Cross­Fit Jour­nal and if you’re curi­ous about Cross­Fit or how it can help you become faster, stronger and health­ier, I sug­gest check­ing it out. …

January 28, 2009 – 9:21 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Cognitive Dissonance

By now, I would imag­ine that most peo­ple around the coun­try who are tuned into news at all have heard about the 100–0 butt kick­ing that the Covenant School of Dal­las’ girls bas­ket­ball team put on Dal­las Acad­emy last week. Now, Covenant fired their coach over the affair which I find to be the most …

January 26, 2009 – 9:25 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture, Sports | Comments (1)

Sadness

Warn­ing: Don’t read this post if you aren’t into not-happy, dying things. Seri­ously. just. don’t. You’ve been warned. Bill Sim­mons, aka the Sports Guy on ESPN.com, is a writer I read pretty reg­u­larly, nay every week because he’s damn funny, lives and breathes sports and writes bet­ter than I do. I love all his columns, …

January 24, 2009 – 12:27 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged , | Comments (4)

Quiet

Things have fallen quiet around the Exper­i­ment of late, been work­ing 10 hour days on a rush project which leaves me only capa­ble of watch­ing 4 Fam­ily Guy episodes in a row when I get home instead of writ­ing witty and engag­ing blog posts about Obama want­ing to steal your guns (do poker peo­ple really …

January 23, 2009 – 7:30 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

What Went Right With Flight 1549

A great account from Pop­u­lar Mechanics

January 18, 2009 – 10:36 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)