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In all seriousness, I think that Giuliani may be nuts . Here are some of his thoughts on waterboarding as torture: It depends on how it’s d...

Finished A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin and thought it was OK. Did you all know that Alan Turing was arrested in Britain...

This put it into perspective for me. San Clemente to the Mexican border is on fire.

I don't believe the president, any president be it Bush, or Clinton, or the goddamn Dalai Lama, should have unchecked or unfettered powe...

Wow, even I never thought that this would happen. It's true, he's willing to do and say ANYTHING to get the nomination: Sounds lik...

My favorite fall beer turned out to be the Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Ale. My least favorite? Surprisingly it was the Gritty's Hallo...

Monday the market went up. It's up again right now. Apparently and obviously I know nothing about the market. I do wonder though how ...

Buh-bye : Robert Chambers Jr., the so-called “Preppy Killer,” who strangled a young woman in Central Park in the 1980s, was arrested in Manh...

Market down big today, but fasten your seatbelts for Monday : Rumors were flying during the last hour of trading of problems at Merrill and ...

And FIRE! Dodd is threatening to filibuster the FISA bill, Armenian genocide declaration dies on the floor, opinions all over the place on M...

What a bunch of cowards . Senate Democrats and Republicans reached agreement with the Bush administration yesterday on the terms of new legi...

Good stuff here . Still much more to come in the housing correction.

I finished The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and I fucking hated it. Too bad too, because I thought that the premise was interestin...

UPDATE: I corrected this post. Two observations struck my funny bone lately. The first one was in the men's room of a local restaurant....

In some work I do for my day job, one of the things I looked at recently was California's GDP vs. the US GDP over time. Two trends emer...

You're hacktacular ! Lawrence Yun, NAR senior economist, notes that widening credit availability will help turn around home sales. “Conf...

From the Washington Post : Iraqi leaders argue that sectarian animosity is entrenched in the structure of their government. Instead of recon...

And when it does, it's going to be a doozy : Outstanding U.S. consumer debt rose at an annual rate of 5.9% in August, pushed higher most...

Ladies and gentlemen, your winner of the Women's 100 meter dash in the 2000 Sydney Olympics... Marion Jones! Ekaterini Thanou! Um .. Fo...

“We do not torture.” At what point do those words lose their meaning? At what point can we say that those words are, in fact, incomprehensi...