As an ex-drinker I’m not generally a militant straight-laced stick-in-the-mud (like the way I am a militant ex-smoker). I couldn’t care less if people drink or what they think drinking does for them.
But I find the new Canadian Club Whiskey ad campaign a little silly or bothersome on a couple of levels for some reason, maybe you as well. If so, you may enjoy this ad parody.
I had to laugh out loud when I watched Jim Rogers interviewed on CNBC, after he lambasted Bernanke for his abject mishandling of the credit market implosion, one interviewer asked: “Tell me two things you would you do if you were Bernanke tomorrow?” – Without missing a beat he said 1: Abolish the fed and 2: Resign
I don’t know who Jesse Larner is, I don’t own a gun, and I may be the only card carrying libertarian in the world who has never read an Ayn Rand book. But I felt I had to put down my thoughts in response to his “Sinister Folly of Ayn Rand” rant on the Huffington Post. Specifically this comment:
In her insistence that she owed nothing to the state, nothing to any human being other than herself, Rand epitomized the kind of childishness shown by libertarians who insist that they have every legal and moral right to own as
I’ve changed my blog name again. I realized I really like the “private world” meme and plan to expand on it at length and that “privateworld.com” was just a way better domain name than “mark.jeftovic.net”.
I also ditched the “Under the Radar” caption because I found out awhile back that there is another tech blog that calls itself that. So after some consideration I’ve gone with “Exile From the Herd” because it follows on some thinking I’ve been doing about the very rough division of all people into three groups:
I’m currently reading Joseph H Ellis’ Ahead of the Curve – A Commonsense Guide To Forecasting Business and Economic Cycles. So far there are a couple of refreshing departures from conventional consensus, like his views on “recession”.
The idea of an economic recession should be an objective measurement of reality, instead, in today’s climate it simply isn’t discussed in polite company. According to the politicians, it’ll never happen.
Ellis argues that whether we are headed for recession is academic, because recessions are lagging indicators of a down cycle, not leading ones. By the time a recession hits, he… Read the rest
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