Year: 2008

The skills required to be a good Admiral and a good Wife of Admiral probably don’t overlap much with the skills needed to be a good parent. To be a good Admiral you need to be a non nonsense hard ass. To be a good parent you need to say comforting things like, “That’s okay Johnny. Everyone is afraid of the dark once in a while.”

Dow 5,000, it is not just me anymore. Bloomberg Link

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There is a story going around about a mugging in the Pittsburgh area where a woman had a "B" carved into her face after the African-American mugger noticed she was…

The DOW Futures tripped the switch and were shut down this morning....wooohooooo! World markets sink; dollar at 13-year low vs. yen Wall Street Braces For Carnage Friday Morning After Overseas…

The current  James Bond (DANIEL CRAIG) is so much better than every other James Bond that it is sick.   [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdmEfgc5aYU[/youtube]  

When the loser of an election comes out and gives some some biolerplate speech about "how the strength of the American system is our ability to transfer power peacfull and....we…

KABUL, Afghanistan — An overnight airstrike by coalition forces that Afghan authorities said killed nine Afghan Army soldiers may have been a case of mutually mistaken identity, the United States-led…

Andrew Sullivan covers a London Times piece which lays out the brewing McCain vs. Palin bitchfest: Palin remains far more popular than McCain with the Republican party base. He regularly…