It has been an interesting month in my new job and with things happening around us- two big things happening locally being One: Wachovia getting essentially wiped out- technically not a failure, but practically, well, lots of folks in Charlotte are going to be looking for jobs. Two: gas shortage- hard to tell how much of it is just not much gas, and how much of it is the hysteria and people overdoing it on making sure they have gas. Another advantage to being so close to work- I shouldn't need any more fuel until this thing gets sorted out.
Anyway, in the sports columnist world, Bill Simmons
continues to entertain me. I especially liked the "pickup game rules" for the NBA All-Star game.
And a couple of postings related to the bailout (in case the other billions of bloggers' postings on this haven't slaked your thirst)....
From Time magazine online:
And another Time online piece:
I don't necessarily agree with all the opinions, but I think there are some parts of this whole thing that are a bit odd, for example, the
"economists against the bailout" get no play or airtime, rather the opposition is framed as "a populist uprising". Could it be that the American public isn't deluded, and in fact is accurately perceiving this bailout effort as benefitting the financiers to the detriment of the public at large? Is it not also significant that the opposition in the House is "bipartisan"? Sure, one can argue those who are afraid of not getting reelected opposed it and those that are confident of reelection voted for it, but how often do we get "bipartisan" anymore in anything of importance?
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