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 Brett Bim | 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 Brett Bim | 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 Brett Bim | 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 Brett Bim | 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 Brett Bim | 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 Brett Bim | 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 Brett Bim | 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 Brett Bim | 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 Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (2)