What Would a U.S. Debt Downgrade Mean? - Megan McArdle - Business - The Atlantic

What Would a U.S. Debt Downgrade Mean? - Megan McArdle - Business - The Atlantic

Easy question, they would have to rewrite all of the introductory finance texts that assume that the US debt is risk free.

What I'm Reading Now

Amazon.com: The Oxford Companion to Wine, 3rd Edition: Books: Jancis Robinson

This is a simply amazing wine book. It is a dictionary of terms relating to wine, grapes, and regions.

One minor quibble. There is an article in this book on
Gorbachev. It focuses mostly on his crackdown on alcoholism in the USSR. It fails to mention that he has a port-wine staim birthmark on his forehead. IN A BOOK ON WINE. Wouldn't you think people would want to know that?

Useless Book of the year

I saw this in CVS today. I thought dummies were reproducing like rabbits.

I won't go schizo, will I?

It's a distinct possibility.

Today is Guy Fawkes Day

Guy Fawkes was part of the Gunpowder Plot to overthrow King Edward and restore Popery to England (I'm summarizing). As a penalty he was drawn and quartered. The part where they spool your intestines on to a dough roller seems really severe.

I thought they just tied your four limbs (quarters) to a draft horse (drawn) and let them do their stuff. Having seen the draft horses at the American Royal for several years, I thought this could hurt. But that emasculation stuff and gibbeting. Well that is going to make for some bad Karma.

Kansas City-Independence School Boundaries

As a graduate of Van Horn High School, class of '75, (boy I feel old) I can tell you why I think you should vote to move Van Horn into the Independence schools. When I went to Van Horn, I felt like a bastard. The Mayor of Independence didn't really give a Rat's A$$ about VH and neither did the Mayor of Kansas City. William Chrisman and Truman, now they were real Independence residents. At Van Horn we were somehow, unclean.

Kansas City has had decades to get its gear stowed and has declined to do so. It is time to let the municipal boundaries dictate where the kids go to school.

BTW, I have no dog in this fight. I now live in Overland Park. I finally live in one of the best public school districts in the country, and my step-daughter goes to private school. Go figure.

Maybe They called Hitler's Bedroom...

...The Gas Chamber.

I won't go Schizo will I?

It's a distinct possibility.

Two years later I wonder what I was writing about. Who knows?

I'm Back; But I'm Gone.

I am back to the blog. None of my goals got accomplished but I did get selected to attend the Naval War College in Newport, RI.

New England is pretty cool but they drink this shit.