Curb Alert

If anyone is wondering where I’ve gone to, I am putting in a new kitchen in my townhouse.  The old cabinets were the originals.  I had replaced the doors and painted them a few years ago and updated my laminate.  It was a quick cosmetic facelift.  Cheap and I could live with it.  But these [...]

Another reason to raise taxes on the rich

The view is spectacular, I’ll grant you that. But this 11,000 sq ft monstrosity of a parking garage with its own parking garage appears to be trying to break a record for the most cubic feet of concrete ever used in a residential building. At a cool $39M, it has no finished kitchen.  Recently reduced [...]

Virtually Speaking reminder

This blogtalkradio show is growing on me.  I especially like the programs where Jay Ackroyd and Stuart Zechman try to clarify themselves.  Tonight’s program features one of my favorite Virtually Speaking hosts, Avedon Carol of the Sideshow.  It starts at 9:00pm, EST.

Sunday: It ain’t over until the balloons drop

The New York Times reports that Obama is starting to make his first campaign sweeps through the country, focusing on swing states and states he carried in 2008: Fifteen months from Election Day, Mr. Obama is gearing up his re-election effort with unemployment stuck above 9 percent, economic growth faltering, financial markets gyrating and faith [...]

Nitecap: Lost and Found

The weeks rush on like waves.  The waves whisper, susurration, the truth comes out, one wave at a time.  Sheeeeee, on the sand, to the one who stands on the shore, moved incrementally, the water eroding the sand beneath the feet, pulling out to sea, receding in foamy strands, to leave us standing ankle deep [...]

Kill this Meme: Job Creators

In the last couple of weeks, I’ve heard a lot nonsense about ‘job creators’.  It’s popping up in clips from Fox News and vomiting forth from the mouths of Republican operatives and politicians.  The meme goes like this: unless we learn to lower our voices and make sacrifices and burnt offerings of pleasing aroma to [...]

Pharmageddon

Longtime readers of this blog know that Big Pharma is in big trouble.  This sector has been shedding jobs at a phenomenal rate.  In part, it’s due to the “patent cliff” that’s just about to commence.  The patent cliff is a period of time when many blockbuster drugs are supposed to go off patent.  Now, [...]

Nitecap: Soft and warm continuum

It’s getting late and I’m on my 5th disc download of RedHat RHEL-5.7 i86_64.  Please stop me now if this is not the right version for the MacBook Pro i7 processor because I am running out of blank discs.  I didn’t want to go with the beta versions because I have a lot of applications [...]

And now a message to the left blogosphere

It’s probably dawned on you that Obama and his recruits are not the ones you thought they were. I’m going to cut Obama some slack here and assume that he looks like he’s caving to the right because he’s part of their milieu and he really thought he could reason with them. That’s because he’s [...]

To our Republican sympathetic readers

I know what they’ve been telling you. They’re telling you that if you can balance your household budget, the government should be able to balance one as well. This is simplistic and misleading. It doesn’t matter. You’ll believe it anyway. They’re telling you that tax hikes kill jobs. Oh, really? How come they didn’t kill [...]