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Monthly Archives: August 2007

This and that from Vermont

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Internet access has been more sporadic than usual this year, accounting for the small number of posts I have inflicted on the world recently. The lack of access, combined with the fact that we haven’t been buying newspapers, means that I am blissfully unaware of the bad news that I am sure is filling the […]

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Bigger houses for flatter incomes

Friday, August 10, 2007

According to CNN, there is talk in Congress about bailing out the mortgage industry. Of course, all the talk is about directing help toward the crooks and liars who created the crisis in the first place; the homeowners who were suckered into borrowing too much money will get nothing. What I found sort of unbelievable […]

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Truth in the Internet age

Thursday, August 9, 2007

While perusing the Boston Globe yesterday, I came across this article in the Business Section, about the latest doings at Fidelity Investments, in which, truth to tell, I have zero interest. Nonetheless, I was struck by this paragraph: Ned Johnson, the visionary who built Fidelity Investments into the nation’s largest mutual fund company, has long […]

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Our media at work

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

In this morning’s Day we learn that John Edwards failed to score points with a union crowd in Chicago at a candidates debate. The debate took place before a large and raucous union crowd. How do we know that Edwards failed to score? Well, we don’t have to take the reporter’s (a labor reporter no […]

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Use it or lose it

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

More short sightedness from the Democrats, at least according to the LA Times: Democrats are not winning the battle to force Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales from office, stymied by a legal system that gives the Bush administration wide discretion to block investigations of itself. And they are not getting the White House witnesses or […]

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Simpsons Redux

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

The Town of Springfield, Vermont is thinking of starting a museum commemorating its first in the nation showing of the Simpsons Movie. So reports the Eagle Times, Springfield’s local paper. You won’t, for some reason, find the story on the web. At least it’s not yet up. My search on the site for “Simpsons” revealed, […]

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Visiting Springfield

Monday, August 6, 2007

Neither we nor our visitors here in Vermont had seen the Simpsons Movie, and we all agreed that today, which started out rainy, would be the perfect day to see the movie in Springfield, Vermont, where it received its world premiere. We took in the matinee at the bargain price of $5.00 each. Here’s proof, […]

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We’re (not) number one!

Monday, August 6, 2007

Via the Seminal, we learn that Russia ranks 102nd of 167 countries in the scale of democracy, at least according to the Economist. I neither endorse nor quarrel with the views of the Seminal writer. My immediate reaction was: Where stands the cradle of democracy, the land of the new birth of freedom, the country […]

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Democrats cower yet again

Sunday, August 5, 2007

Every time Bush fails at something, he asks for increased authority. Every time he asks, Congress gives it to him. He then fails again, and asks again. Why this vicious cycle? In a word, Democrats continue to be frightened every time he accuses them of being soft on terror. The latest chapter is the expansion […]

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Vacation-Day 1

Sunday, August 5, 2007

It is with mixed emotions that I must report that my usual source of free internet service here at our vacation place in Vermont seems to have dried up this year. On the one hand, it means I can’t keep up with what’s going on in the world, making it difficult for me to blog. […]

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