Archive for July, 2008

Two sides

Blog: July 15th, 2008

Yep. This is me venting after having seen yet another talking-head TV debate between someone speaking common sense and someone talking gibberish.  There is absolutely no way a person watching those kinds of “news” programs can learn a thing from two people blatantly contradicting each other. It requires that the viewer – essentially – do [...]

Phil Gramm steps down as McCain campaign co-chair

Blog: July 18th, 2008

McCain’s chief economic advisor and the author of the “Enron loophole” has recently caught so much flack for calling the U.S. a “nation of whiners” that he has stepped down as co-chairman of the McCain campaign. TalkingPointsMemo reports that Gramm’s “step down” is in the now classic George W. Bush tradition in that he’ll still [...]

Iraq president supports Obama’s timetable for withdrawal

Blog: July 21st, 2008

In an interview with a German publication, Iraqi President Nuri al-Maliki was quoted as supporting Barack Obama’s 16-month timetable to leave Iraq. The Bush administration, naturally, flipped out and contacted the Iraq govermnet and both sides claimed that this was an error in translation. Turns out – it wasn’t at all. The German publication, Der [...]

The gas price timeline PDF

Blog: July 24th, 2008

I’ve put together a PDF of yesterday’s gas price timeline. Click to download the PDF here.

Moral quagmire


July 28th, 2008