Monthly Archives: June 2010

Thoughts on the US Open

Watch­ing the final holes of the US Open plus the post play inter­views, I was struck by the dif­fer­ence in the Euro­peans who were inter­viewed and the Amer­i­cans, specif­i­cally the num­ber one player in the world, Tiger Woods. French­man Gre­gory Havret, in a con­so­la­tion inter­view, was gra­cious and per­son­able. He talked about play­ing well, about …

June 20, 2010 – 8:50 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Sports | Tagged | Comments (3)

What Is The American Way of Life?

Lex­ing­ton Green asks this ques­tion over at Chicago Boyz while pro­vid­ing his own answer. It’s a phrase you often hear but that rarely is explained. I won­der if it isn’t largely per­sonal in nature and pos­si­bly depen­dent on your polit­i­cal pro­cliv­i­ties. How­ever, given the exis­tence of the con­cept, I also feel that there are com­mon …

June 15, 2010 – 8:27 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Culture | Comments (0)

Marching Towards Another Depression

A fas­ci­nat­ing arti­cle at New Deal 2.0 details the steps we are tak­ing towards a likely sec­ond Great Depres­sion. At a time when economies are tee­ter­ing on the edge of recov­ery and a sec­ond reces­sion, gov­ern­ments are start­ing to make noises, par­tic­u­larly in Europe, about reduc­ing deficits as a model for respon­si­ble finan­cial health. Unfor­tu­nately, …

June 8, 2010 – 9:18 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Economics | Tagged , , | Comments (0)