December 2007
6 posts
“It gets a little complicated…”
– Anchor on FoxBusiness News arond 3:15pm today, after a sentence or two explaining why triple witching, among other phenomena, could be helping today’s market uptick. Granted, this is not common knowledge. However, on a business news channel, I’d expect either an analysis that assumes the...
“The presidential primary mayhem and next year’s seemingly endless general...”
– Karl Rove, in the Opinion section of today’s Wall Street Journal. He doesn’t address the question of what can be used as an incentive for states not to battle for first primary date, but he does make some good points about the downsides of never-ending campaigns, including the incredible...
Just Blaise
My friend Francis, a professor of ethics in NYC, was breaking my chops about blogging. His quip when I mentioned the interest implied something like - just what the world needs, another avenue of twenty-something self-absorbed-expression of unspecified purpose. I get it. But when I explained tumblr, he gave back a little ground and provided an out - Pascal’s Pensées...