Informed Speculation

McCain is so behind in the polls right now, and the economy is such an overwhelming issue, that presidential politics is almost an afterthought a mere three weeks or so before the election…but an Alaskan legislative panel has found that Sarah Palin abused her powers as governor by relentlessly pursuing the firing of a state [...]

“Success has a thousand fathers; failure is an orphan”. So goes the old saying, one I’m fond of quoting. Everyone now wants us to think they were prescient enough to see this calamity coming; no one wants to admit to contributing to it. Obama and McCain assure us that each saw the warning signs at [...]

…I’m having a hard time coming up with good topics to blog about (I never would have dreamed that, when I started this blog – I mean, it’s a month from the election, and it’s boring!). So here’s something new: if I am not mistaken, when Barack Obama is inaugurated come January, he will be [...]

…Here we go. I have no confidence whatsoever that we are going to hear anything worth hearing on the economy, but it would be a nice time for someone to step up to the plate. I’ll update throughout the night… UPDATE 8:08 p.m.: So Obama has no answer to the most immediate way to improve [...]

…only to close off a mere 300 and change, after going down about 125 on Friday, you must be joining me in saying “Thank God we passed that bailout!”…but at least we have the broader markets. Um, okay, scratch that… Now, of course, that’s not entirely fair – the bailout was not aimed specifically at [...]

…it really is looking more and more like Obama is going to win this thing handily.  He is up by a statistically significant margin in every poll, and much more troubling for McCain, he has regained momentum in the crucial battleground states that will swing the election.  It might even be a massacre, looking at [...]

Sorry to go non-political on you, but the most appalling jury verdict of all time has met at least a partial redemption.  Though O.J. Simpson is forever innocent, in the eyes of the law, of the criminal charge of brutally murdering his ex-wife and Ronald Goldman (a crime that any sentient person knows he committed [...]

My thoughts on the bailout bill, now signed, sealed, and delivered with passage in the House and President Bush’s signature? Well, here’s what I think…nah, forget it.  You know what I think already, and it’s a done deal now. Let’s just mourn the passage by channelling George Harrison briefly: Have you seen the little piggies [...]

Been down all night, until now, and now it’s time for bed – but a quick thought.  I agree with the conventional wisdom that Palin did better than expected, but Biden did well, too…this is twice now that Palin has come through with everything on the line, whether you love her or hate her…but alas, [...]

Here you go: all 451 pages of it.  It appears that a decision was made that the only way to pass the bailout bill was to load it with pork.  Tax cuts, renewable energy credits, health coverage mandates, there’s a little something for everyone! Of course, all of these measures only add to the $700 [...]