LinkmeisterMember of the Reality-Based CommunitySpeculators are today's villain- June 24, 2008 Paul Krugman is a trained economist. He's got evidence in the form of a chart which puts paid to the argument that those nasty speculators are the ones driving oil prices. Look, it's human nature to look for someone else to blame for our troubles, but in this instance it's all pretty simple. China and India are industrializing their economies and their consumers are adding cars to their roads in monumental numbers. Both activities require oil. Ergo, since supply is finite, demand is...http://www.linkmeister.com/blog/archives/002965.html Setback- June 24, 2008 Dammit. I took Tigger in to the vet and we discovered that the blood supply to the wound has failed, so there's a bunch of dead skin there. I'm going to have to give her about a zillion more pills, try to rebandage her myself (which really ought to be fun; it's a job for two people, and for various reasons that's unlikely), and take her back in two weeks.http://www.linkmeister.com/blog/archives/002964.html Nixonland- June 23, 2008 I'm the first person to check out Rick Perlstein's Nixonland from my local library. I hope I won't be the last. It's an excellent read, or at least the first 100 pages are. The NYT review was less than enthusiastic, but then the guy who reviewed it was George Will, hardly a disinterested observer. It certainly reminds me of the deep-seated loathing I had and still have for that man, a political opportunist of the worst possible kind. Reading about the campaigns he ran, starting with the...http://www.linkmeister.com/blog/archives/002963.html |