Its rare that you get to see a real contest of wills, the sheer ebb and flow of best blows taken for minute advantage only to be repulsed, and the sheer extravagance of seeing pounding shot after shot taken that you know to be, from your own dallying in the game, of a sublime nature. But even that shot returned with an even greater skill.…
On the Jon Stewart Daily Show, Jon consistently gets laughs by referring to the Still President for “nnn” Days. The problem is that it is no laughing matter as President Bush and his colleagues in the Senate particularly continue to wield power and obstruction. The Presidential veto used only 2 times in the previous 6 years in office suddenly along with suddeen allegiance to Fiscal…
There are some rather heated arguments by Economists about the desirability of monopolies - and even more so on how quickly economic systems adjust to either defeat or mitigate the deletorious effects of monopolies. I would argue that monoplies are a)rarely good especially over long periods of time and b)the pace of globalization and change is such that economies cannot afford the often tediously slow…
Jon Stewart on the Daily Show gets laughs by referring to Still the President. But the situation is no longer a laughing matter. Still the President has teamed up with the Republicans in the Senate to veto bills almost indiscriminately. This means that the 51 vote majorities have to be increased to 60 to get a bill over the Presidential veto. So Still the President,…
Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards! by Harper Collins I was driving down the highway and made the mistake of slipping in the audio disk for Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards! I could have been arrested on the spot for driving under the influence of intense laughter. Truly I had to pull off the road at the nearest rest stop I was laughing so hard and loud about…
In a June 18th 2008 story, Heather Scoffield of the Toronto Globe and Mail is leading the charge on getting things wrong on the Canadian economy. And she is using supporters like Dale Orr at Global Insights, Patricia Croft at Phillips Hager North, and Derek Holt at Scotia Capital who is of the opinion that “core inflation is a dead issue in Canada and will…
The Canadian Supreme Court ruled against Bell Canada Enterprise-BCE bondholders last Friday. It was greeted in the Business Press as a case that would make “capital market rules clear for all stakeholders”. And the vote was not close, 9-0. So bondholders were told in no uncertain terms, if you have not provided in the bonds covenants and limits against debt levels allowed while the bonds…
The Catholic Church has published a list of 7 new mortal sins – Now I don’t disagree with the moral tone of the Church – for example, I still regard The Catechism of the Catholic Church which states that €œimmediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into Hell€ to be psychologically plausible. However, I do not…
I would like to tell you that the new Firefox 3 web browser is blazingly fast, full of new GUI features yet with great ease of use. And FireFox 3 has one of the best set of add-ons, themes and extensions. It leaves even the upcoming IE8(early next year likely) in the dust. But I won’t – I will let the Microsoft evangelist, Paul Thurrott…
5 years ago, former Sun CEO Scott McNealy scoffed at the idea that there was any privacy left. And given not just the Web, Google, and Security breeches but also what is happening behind the scenes from government (for example, NSA scanning of mobile phone and Internet transmissions, etc); business (for example, increasing storage and tracking of all financial transactions by credit agencies); and other…
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Captain Jack Aubrey and Spymaster Stephen Maturin are the matching pieces in this historical novel. It is remarkable that English literature has two series, Horatio Hornblower and Aubrey + Maturin both set in the same era and of such great quality. Desolation Island tells you why the era of the dawning Enlightenment, European Wars and Industrial Revolution was so tempestuous... and on a prison ship voyage to Australia. Such drama!