If you've been following along, you know I've given up on Movable Type as a blogging platform, and I'm moving this blog to Wordpress. In Part 1 I explained why moving 10 years of blog posts with minimal link breakage was a lot of work. Of course, I'll have to have some place to move to. Which means I'll have to design and set up another Wordpress blog. I managed to teach … [Read more...] about Moving to WordPress – Part 2: New Website
Chicago To Pay For Not Watching the Watchers
Five and a half years ago, when the beating of 24-year old bartender Karolina Obrycka by Chicago Police Officer Anthony Abbate first made the news, I argued that the beating itself wasn't the real news story: ...It is rumored that some cops offered Obrycka a bribe if she would back off, and then threatened to plant drugs in the bar and in Obrycka's car if she didn't back … [Read more...] about Chicago To Pay For Not Watching the Watchers
Election Results 2012
I may have been a little harsh in yesterday's prediction that "the next four years are going to suck." That's what I get for concentrating too much on the Presidential race. It turned out there was some good news last night. First of all, the Republican rape guy lost. Actually, both Republican rape guys lost. I don't think Richard Mourdock meant what he said in quite the way … [Read more...] about Election Results 2012
Obama Wins, Markets Do Something
It's easy to make fun of "up-down" financial market reporting, which is why I do it. Every day, some poor fool pretends to understand why thousands of investors made millions of of decisions about billions of dollars and boil it down to a single cause, such as "profit taking," "hunting for bargains," or "declining investor confidence in the wake of yesterday's Treasury … [Read more...] about Obama Wins, Markets Do Something
Election Prediction 2012
Here's my prediction for the result of the 2012 Presidential election: The next four years are going to suck. The polls are about even (heh, even in the pointless Dixville Notch first vote), which partisans on both sides are trying to spin as a win for their side. Some of them may even be right. I don't know and I don't care enough to try to figure it out. A day from now we'll … [Read more...] about Election Prediction 2012