Nothing like listening to tens of thousands of dollars slip out of your 401(k) in a matter of minutes, which is what I was doing this morning. The Dow dropped 1,082 points. The “circuit breakers” — the 7% dropoff point where trading is automatically stopped (to prevent a crash) — were set to go at a drop of 1,157, which we didn’t … Read More
Rollercoaster DOWN On Wall Street
Wheeeee! Dow dropped over 500 today (and over 300 yesterday). Let’s look at the past six weeks: Nice little dip there at the end, huh? What’s going on? It’s China. It’s always China. They are having hard economic times. So everybody feels it. The people I feel sorriest for are the Chinese workers making our Apple and Samsung products, as … Read More
Tensions In The Koreas
This is ugly: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered front-line military units to enter “a wartime state” after an exchange of fire with South Korea, his country’s state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Friday. The announcement, employing bellicose language typical of North Korea, adds to the edgy situation in the region. The two sides traded artillery fire over … Read More
Watch The Spin
New York Times headline: Judge Says Hillary Clinton Didn’t Follow Government Email Policies Conservatives: “She broke the law!!” Note to everyone: A policy is not a law
This Tweet Poses An Interesting Question Re: Ashley Madison
The Ashley Madison hacked data is now searchable online. Will you look for your spouse? https://t.co/WcWvsPOLbT — AJ+ (@ajplus) August 20, 2015 The problem of course is…. what if you are able to search the database, and you find your spouse, knowing that there are millions of fraudulent accounts there? I guess it warrants a conversation, at a minimum, with … Read More
An Observation
Isn’t it amusing that conservatives claim to love America, but want to wave the Confederate flag which was used by several states in its war against America? Isn’t it amusing how conservatives claim to love the Constitution, but when it is explained to them what it says, they want to change it?
The Dishonest Attack On Shaun King
I saw this story bubbling a couple days ago, and even the mainstream media was touching it. Certainly, Fox was. It has to do with the race of a #BlackLivesMatter activist named Shaun King. In the blogosphere, Breitbart “News” seems to have launched a virulent attack Shaun King, alleging that he’s been lying about his heritage like Rachel Dolezal, and is … Read More
Welcome To The Post-Citizens United World
Ready for this? In the early presidential fundraising returns, half the $388 million contributed so far came from fewer than 400 families, with 62 donors giving at least $1 million. As the Huffington Post’s Paul Blumenthal put it, “For the first time in more than a century, the majority of funding for a presidential election is coming in six-figure or larger … Read More
Trumps Reaction To Hate Crime — He Hits A New Low
This turns my stomach: The homeless man was lying on the ground, shaking, when police arrived early Wednesday. His face was soaked, apparently with urine, his nose broken, his chest and arms battered. Police said two brothers from South Boston ambushed the 58-year-old as he slept outside of a Dorchester MBTA stop, and targeted him because he is Hispanic. One … Read More
Ashley Madison Claims Its First “Celebrity” Victim
I’m not going to say who it was, although it is someone already “disgraced”. And I put “celebrity” in quotes, because this guy is more of a reality show star, than an actual celebrity. There is a certain schadenfreude at this “family values” guy being revealed as someone who cheats on his wife through Ashley Madison, but I think the … Read More
But Global Warming Is A Myth
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), last month (July) was the hottest month in the recorded history of Earth. And we’re on track to be the hottest year in the recorded history of Earth, beating out the previous champion: last year. Below a heat map for last July, compared to the average of 1951-1980 years. A lot … Read More
Bad Lip Reading Does The GOP Debate
All the yes
Does BLM Want To Change Minds Or Change The Law?
Last week I gave a full-throated defense of myself and others who had taken issue with the tactics of Black Lives Matter. This came in the wake of a Seattle political event involving Bernie Sanders, where two BLM activists took the stage as Sanders started speaking, and effectively hijacked the agenda (as well as hijacking Sanders). Sander never got to … Read More
Ashley Madison Hackers Release Names
The Impact Team, the name of the group that hacked the Ashley Madison website (a site owned by Avid Life Media), has released the names, addresses and phone numbers — as well as a four-digit code that could be either partial credit card numbers or just user numbers — of the 37 million users of the cheat-on-your-spouse website. But don’t rush to a website … Read More