Archive for December, 2006

Couldn’t resist posting this for you all. Paramus is near and dear to me and my family, it was a local haunt for us for so many years. Here’s a Metro piece about it in the New York Times: In This Town, Even a Mall Rat Can Get Rattled
UGH!
Now I know I was… »

Well duh! Our leader and Decider-in-Chief emerged from his bunker long enough to say that things in Iraq are not going as swimmingly well as planned. In fact it’s a little tougher than he thought. Not that he though much, but hey who’s to say? It’s almost as tough as chopping… »

A little holiday relief for you all at the New York Times. It seems that the FBI has finally released it files on John Lennon, that well known anti-American agitator. Read about it here: The Lede – Breaking News
What can you say other than these people are insane? The notion that… »

When you outsource something you take on an obligation to exert more, not less, oversight. The Republicans during their control of Congress have sought to outsource all sorts of things. That may be fine if they had also strengthened the oversight of the contractors to whom projects were assigned. Instead they did… »

Just a short note to post my lament to the last day of the 109th Congress. The worst in American history. It brought us scandal and corruption on a grand scale. It reminded us of the great historian’s words about the corrupting influence of power. It sat for a total of… »

While you are all digesting the Iraq Study Group report [if you're not you should be!], here’s a little local economic news to depress you even more. The New York Times has done a good job of tracking the news beneath the surface on real estate. Here’s a typical article: What Statistics on… »

So the much anticipated Iraq Study Group (ISG) has issued its report. The latest can be found here at CNN:Iraq Study Group: Change Iraq strategy now or here at the BBC: Iraq Report is no magic formula
From a preliminary reading the report is a wholehearted condemnation of George Bush’s policy. It advocates… »