Comments on: The more things change…

By: S. Weasel

S. Weasel — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:41:18 +0000

I’m more a “plague on both their houses” type

Me too. I hate the GOP, I just hate them less than I hate the Dems. One of my abiding frustrations is that the Libertarian Party always, always descends to be the party of flaming nutjobbery. One of these days, I’m going to start the “Mind Your Own Business and Leave Me the Hell Alone” party.

Anyhow, thank you. I’m suffering mild to moderate jitters — not about being there, but about the process of getting there.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:05:47 +0000

Ms. Weasel,

I tend not to agree with you (I’m more a “plague on both their houses” type), but when you’re right you’re right: The “Caveman Night and Day” artwork is sublime.

Best of luck on your move.

By: LemurKing

LemurKing — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:26:21 +0000

pnb – brownSHIRTS or brownPANTS? Seems to me they spend equal amounts of time crapping their pants.

Greenspan reminds me of the bartender, Lloyd, in The Shining. He’s there for you and your glass is never quite empty. Until the bill comes due.

Business is tight indeed. Capital is kind of hard to come by and rates go up, so it’ll be interesting to see how much it affects attitudes over this next year. People will be left with the choice: to freak out or not to freak out.

By: Buffoon

Buffoon — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:21:15 +0000

Just when I thought I was out, SWeasel pulls me back in….

schnoink!

By: Uncle Badger

Uncle Badger — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:33:36 +0000

Fine pictures, Rich!

And yes, I agree, along with all the invective aimed at the venal shits in the finance houses who helped us to hell, I find a marked absence of equal venom for the real villains of the piece: the damned politicians who not only blew this bubble, but who have profited from it, mightily.

I can’t speak for the USA but here in jolly olde, there is a growing sense of ‘hang them all’. When the reckoning comes, we must save sufficient piano wire for the political classes.

By: Allen

Allen — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:23:33 +0000

Well at least the debate is back on. It will give me something to do while swilling gin, (probably yelling, “you suck!” at the radio.)

Rich has some really great pictures on his site.

By: S. Weasel

S. Weasel — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:15:39 +0000

Welcome, Rich. We won’t hold your past against you.

Gosh, your name sounds familiar to me.

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:09:19 +0000

Happy to say I’m a reformed economist. More than 10 years clean from the academic nonsense. Didn’t even need a twelve step program….I went cold turkey.

But the folks in DC are dragging me back in with the most recent nonsense. We’ve all known that the big mother of a bubble was building since “Easy Al, the drunk’s pal” Greenspan said irrational exuberance in 1996. Instead of curbing the game they kept it going. And Al kept pouring the drinks!

All believing the market could do nothing but go up, and believing they made it happen.

Love the graphic at the start of this post. Glad to have found your blog!

By: porknbean

porknbean — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:21:27 +0000

Hey look, we have a wad of brown shirts here in Missouri. Criticize their messianic candidate and they will use the power of their office to f*ck you up…

gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/09/missouri-sheriffs-prosecuters-form.html

Nevermind that even the NY Slimes admits Obama’s ads on McCain are lies.

By: DefendUSA

DefendUSA — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:04:12 +0000

You know, people like me who are paying a mortgage and a rent and trying to save for 4 college educations could surely just walk away and start all over. Trouble is, my mother raised me right and fuck if would feel guilty while the gov’t rapes my taxpaying ass and that of my friends. There ain’t nothin’ right about it. Glad you could get out without getting desperate. My turn might be coming.