Monthly Archives: January 2010

Fear The Boom And The Bust

When they start making rap songs about dead economists, I think it’s probably a sign of the apocalypse. Still, this one is excellent and instructive.

January 26, 2010 – 6:46 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Economics | Comments (1)

Baby Steps

This week, President Obama proposed regulatory changes that would limit big banks, implicitly those that received the guarantee of a government backstop during the crash last year, from investing for profits using their own hedge-funds or proprietary trading desks. This would be an excellent first step in reining in the power that the JP Morgans …

January 23, 2010 – 5:56 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Economics, Politics | Tagged , | Comments (4)

Jon Stewart Tells Keith Olbermann What For

Keith Olbermann is a prick, that’s really all you can say. But Jon Stewart says it far better than I ever could. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

January 22, 2010 – 6:23 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Comments (2)

Every Day It’s Some New Broken Promise

Hitler parodies never ever ever get old. Change we can believe in and all.

January 21, 2010 – 8:52 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Comments (1)

Political Discourse Olberman Style

Man, the leftist elites are flipping out. It must be hard waking up to the realization that democracy involves “the people” and not “you telling the riff-raff what they ought to do”. Congratulations to Scott Brown this morning but more importantly, congratulations to the people of Massachusetts who went to the polls in unprecedented numbers …

January 20, 2010 – 9:05 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Review Of Amy’s View At Theatre Three

As part of our ongoing effort to seem cool, trendy and urbane, the missus and I went to see Amy’s View at Theatre Three last night as part of our season ticket package there. Overall, the show was a good one with some solid character portrayals by Connie Coit and Danielle Pickard. Amy’s View is …

January 16, 2010 – 3:37 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Financial Calamity

Our financial system is horribly broken, serving only the well-connected and well-monied interests of Wall Street. We, the American Taxpayer, gave billions of our dollars to save people who made stupid bets on gambles designed to make them millions and millions of dollars. We haven’t flinched yet but if the republic has a chance of …

January 12, 2010 – 8:58 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Finances | Tagged , , | Comments (9)

Something Else To Do

Sometimes you do strange things on Sundays with spare time on your hands. I took a defunct blog my wife and I never bothered with and turned it into a photoblog. My current plan is to post a picture every Sunday at least with other random posts showing up as I run into things worth …

January 10, 2010 – 9:25 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Disappearing

Apparently, my quitting Twitter didn’t cure whatever it is that has been keeping me from writing. It’s been quiet around here, quiet around my tech blog and quiet on the writing front in general. In fact, I went back and looked and I haven’t really been doing any writing since July. It’s not for lack …

January 9, 2010 – 6:30 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (2)