Monthly Archives: July 2009

The Best Sentence You’ll Read For At Least Six Days

Impe­r­ial is like Robert Caro’s The Power Bro­ker with the atti­tude of Mike Davis’s City of Quartz, if Robert Caro had been raised in an aban­doned grain silo by a band of feral rac­coons, and if Mike Davis were the com­mu­ni­ca­tions direc­tor of a heav­ily armed lib­er­tar­ian sur­vival­ist cult, and if the two of them …

July 31, 2009 – 8:01 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (1)

We’re In The Very Best Hands

After solv­ing all the nation’s really hard prob­lems this morn­ing, Demo­c­ra­tic Sen­a­tors lead by Chuck Schumer had plenty of time on their hands and decided to save the world from peo­ple who text while they drive. Thank God the econ­omy, health care and world peace all got knocked out in that work ses­sion this morning.

July 29, 2009 – 11:51 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Comments (0)

Inflation and the Fed

Dur­ing the cur­rent eco­nomic cri­sis, the Fed­eral Reserve has increased its bal­ance sheet sig­nif­i­cantly in order to increase the mon­e­tary liq­uid­ity in the econ­omy. Many peo­ple assume they have done this by “print­ing money” which in the­ory increases the money sup­ply held by the pub­lic and over the long term is infla­tion­ary. How­ever, because the …

July 22, 2009 – 10:00 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Insider Trading Suit Against Mark Cuban Dismissed

A judge threw out the SEC’s case against Mark Cuban today related to his sale of stock in Mamma.com. I ini­tially wrote about it here point­ing out the pos­si­bil­ity that this case was polit­i­cal pay­back. You have to think it might have been since I’d imag­ine the SEC doesn’t nor­mally bring a case against some­one …

July 17, 2009 – 10:09 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Economics | Comments (0)

Priorities

Required back­ground here. Then com­pare this to this and you start to see why some days I wake up and have trou­ble find­ing any hope for our coun­try. Maybe that’s hyper­bole but we seem to have lost our way with regards to our heroes. God, I must be get­ting old. Hey you kids, get the hell …

July 16, 2009 – 12:09 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (3)

Suing People To Solve Your Problems

The story: A pri­vate swim club kicks out a day care group pos­si­bly because of over­crowd­ing, pos­si­bly because of racism. Media fire storm brews. Said pri­vate swim club rein­vites day care group. Day care group refuses say­ing “chil­dren are scarred” and “The children’s best inter­ests are not being served.” Day care intends to sue within …

July 14, 2009 – 10:27 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture, National Issues | Comments (18)

Further Proof The Nobel Peace Prize Is A Joke

The cre­ators of Twit­ter have been sug­gested as its next recip­i­ent. I am and will remain speech­less on this event.

July 13, 2009 – 7:52 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

The Natives Are Definitely Getting Restless

When avowed lib­eral talk show host Jon Stew­art starts doing seg­ments called “That’s Great, Now Fix The Econ­omy”, I think it’s a pretty good sign that the hon­ey­moon period is over. Hope and Change and all that jazz. The Daily Show With Jon Stew­art Mon — Thurs 11p / 10c That’s Great Now Fix the Econ­omy www.thedailyshow.com …

July 9, 2009 – 7:35 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Pedro

EDITORIAL NOTE: As noted here, I’m tak­ing a Fic­tion Writ­ing class. I plan to post com­pleted and semi-completed works on my blog. This post and any sub­se­quent posts filed in the “Fic­tion” cat­e­gory are exactly that and should be read as such. END EDITORIAL NOTE “How are you?” I was pay­ing atten­tion to my hand-washing, mak­ing …

July 7, 2009 – 6:37 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Fiction | Comments (1)

From The Law Of Unintended Consequence Department

Back in May, Con­gress passed a bill that pre­vented credit card com­pa­nies from rais­ing inter­est rates for card­hold­ers unless the cardholder’s pay­ments were 60 days over­due. They did this under the guise of pro­tect­ing the con­sumer against the capri­cious and evil credit card com­pa­nies, appar­ently for­get­ting in the process that credit card com­pa­nies and con­sumers …

July 6, 2009 – 7:49 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Comments (0)