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 …

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)