Don't hate the player -- hate the game. Here's an interesting post from the blogosphere about Greenspan as a total hack by what looks like an intelligent conservative (this is the only post on his blog I read -- can't vouch for him beyond this).  ¶ 2:09 PM 0 comments

  50 hours. No tripod. Homicide Life on the Street - Seasons 1-5 DVD Set. Aw yeah...  ¶ 5:59 PM 0 comments

  This is a post to say I haven't posted in a while.

This is the equivalent of writing that essay in 6th grade about how you have nothing to write about. And making it go for 250 words.  ¶ 3:31 PM 0 comments

  Didn't I say that a couple of weeks ago? NYT looks at HP after Carly, in a story on the short tenures of CEOs:

"Walter McCormick, head of the value equity team at Evergreen Investments in Boston...agrees that the PC business is a loser for Hewlett, but he is encouraged by its other product lines, especially printers. He hopes that an eventual successor to Ms. Fiorina will refocus Hewlett around printers and dump much of the rest of the company. 'We believe that there's value there and that it will be unlocked,' he said."

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  Multitasking with toddlers on your lap If you keep the window small enough, you can work while hamster dance is running on your screen at the same time...  ¶ 6:56 PM 0 comments

  1,121 Things You Can't Say on an Official NFL Jersey So apparently NFL.com has a list of verbotten words for the backs of customized Jerseys. The whole list is here. Interestingly, although over 50 variations of "ass" are forbidden, "Ass Master" didn't make the list. Perhaps the person who compiled it was not a Margaret Cho fan...  ¶ 12:48 PM 0 comments

  Bill Gates on HS In a recent speech, Bill Gates pointed out that American high schools were designed to send a few kids to college and keep most kids off the street until they were old enough for unskilled labor. Out of the mouths of billionaires...

This puts me in mind of an idea my dad is putting forth, which is that investor capitalism might end up being a positive social transformative force. With the actual government in the hands of corrupt millionaires scrounging for more money for their friends and their re-election campaigns, it's only the Concerned Billionaires like Buffett, Soros, Gates, and others (who, BTW, are mostly self-made billionaires) who have the necessary level of "disinterestedness" to really champion what they think is right. Of course, this is exactly what the founding fathers had in mind.

A benevolent plutocracy.

Well, this other thing doesn't seem to be working so well, so why not?

I say, all of the Concerned Billionaires should follow Jon Corzine's example and buy themselves a Senate seat.  ¶ 9:24 AM 0 comments