posts from economy

Time Suck Evolution

by August 22nd, 2011 - Culture » Video Games »

I am obsessive. I am a perfectionist. But most of the energy has been sucked into the almost endless time spiral of video game simulations. I remember years and years lost to the Madden franchise, long nights adjusting my franchise with surgeon’s tools, plowing through games just to see the team’s progression, and finally using […]

Get Bailed Out

by November 13th, 2008 - Politics »

Ho ho…ain’t it just such a grand thing that our economy still sucks and that our government’s faltering and questionable attempts to prop it up yet play heavily in the daily news. The joy is that, certain things and thoughts that I enjoyed during the passage of the Bailout are still relevant…and therefore arguably worthy […]

The Economy Dummy

by October 23rd, 2008 - Politics »

Before we are once more drawn into the warm wet embrace of faith in the economy, I wanted to make note of my recently evolved commonsense skepticism of economic systems. At some point in my life, I unfortunately lost my endless curiosity in subjects that lay just outside the confines of my current knowledge. One […]

A Comedy of Fiscal Errors

by October 12th, 2008 - Politics »

Like some good-old, dry Monty Python sketch. This from an Australian satire show called Newstopia, the video originally seen at Campaign for Liberty. With a spoonful of sugar to taste, better said than I can say though I’ll say it anyway… Central banking (U.S. Federal Reserve) and fiat currency are both a bit of corrupted […]

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