Things I Wonder About
Why is a tax credit for home purchases only good for first time home buyers? Wouldn’t making it available to everyone lure even more people into the market? Doctors, lawyers, engineers, car salesmen, politicians, school teachers, reporters…the list goes on and on. Is there any profession out there that isn’t loathed by anyone? I’d say [...]
Lender, Spender, Whatever
Last weekend Ron Paul spoke at the Campaign for Liberty conference in St. Louis. Click over to watch the videos of his speech…I haven’t had a chance to see them all yet. But I did catch this big “ouch” in the transcript… The Federal Reserve was brought into existence in 1913 because they said they [...]
I Don’t Feel Like Writing
But these people do. Â So go read their posts. LissaKay on how socialism works. Â Notice the guy at the top pays the same amount either way. BillyMac has fun playing with John McCain’s tongue. Â Strange fetish. Why Libertarians and true conservatives don’t win elections. Â Duh. Seth Godin writes a post about me–too small to fail. [...]
Illogical Markets
From Fast Company: “The idea that the market is always right is a crazy idea. Laissez-faire is over.” Well, until the shit hits the fan, maybe. But it can’t be stopped forever. Here are a few observations I’ve made in my few years… 1) Unregulated markets are illogical, emotional, impulsive, abusive, and reactionary…in the short [...]
Two Guys Who Get It
Brazilian President calls the bailout unfair to poor people… “Why give $700 billion to the banks and no money to the poor guys who lost their houses,” Lula asked, according to local media. He referred to the troubled U.S. housing market. I think he’s right, but for the wrong reasons. Poor people shouldn’t be given [...]
Man Up Nine-Year-Olds!
My buddy Greg sent me this article at ESPN about a 9-year-old boy in Connecticut who has been told his 40 mph fast ball makes him “too good” to pitch in his baseball league. Teams have refused to play when he pitches, and his team is being disbanded at players redistributed to other teams. But [...]
Baseball in 2008–meh
I never thought there would come a time when I would care this little about baseball. The All-Star game is tonight, and I don’t think it’s possible for me to care any less. Baseball really has no soul left for the most part. There are a couple of exceptions–a few weeks ago I was in [...]
Instant Replay in Major League Baseball?
Yeah. That’s the real problem with baseball. It’s not their looking the other way with steroids a la the WWE. It’s not the designated hitter (why not have 9 offensive player and 9 defensive players?). The problem is that there is no instant replay? George Will is a lot smarter than me, and he’s way [...]
My 2007 Year in Review
Unlike everyone else, I slacked off and waited until 2008 was officially here to do my review. 2007 was my first year of full on blogging. I’d messed around here and there with different blogs before, but 2007 was the year I drank the Kool Aid and went at it for real. I’ll keep this [...]
More on Steroids and Baseball
After yesterday’s post, I’ve had a chance to read a little more and think about the issue. This is so obviously a free market issue to me. If baseball fans demand a clean up, we’ll have one. Frankly, I don’t think many of the baseball fans that are left really care one way or the [...]
