Vision

Obama is ask­ing for ideas, and while I have no faith that they will go any­where, I sent one in any­ways. Namely, I’d like to see a sov­er­eign wealth fund ulti­mately respon­si­ble to the Treasury, under advise­ment of Commerce and Labor. The man­date for the orga­ni­za­tion would include: Ensuring restored mar­ket liq­uid­ity by sheer force …

Different Answers

A rel­a­tive of mine once con­fided that he voted for Ronald Reagan barely more than a decade after he asked that copies of The Daily Worker be mailed to him in Vietnam. I asked him why he did so, and his answer was that he “was tired of feel­ing ashamed of being an American.” 28 years …

Didn’t Take Long

48 hours later, and I’m already com­pos­ing an apolo­gia for Obama. Well, let’s get into it on Rahm Emanuel: I live in Chicago I con­tributed money to Obama’s cam­paign Emanuel is the rep­re­sen­ta­tive for my dis­trict To be hon­est, the main rea­son I had for both­er­ing to vote in the elec­tion before the bailout was to …

The Last Debate

Some ran­dom thoughts from the debate: I’ve twit­tered about this before, but I hon­estly am glad that Obama got a new pro­jec­tor for the Adler Planetarium. The plan­e­tar­ium is a mon­u­ment in it’s own right, along­side the Museum of Science and Industry, the Shedd Aquarium, and the Field Museum; the longer it oper­ates the better. …