So what’s going on in and around my world? Let’s explore:
- UVA football is surprisingly, um, uh — “good” is not the word for it — uh, successful. They’re 6-1, leading the Coastal Division and, I apparently predicted as much. Who will win the Coastal?
I have to be contrary out of principle. Since I can’t really think of a team better than Virginia Tech, I’ll say Virginia. Why UVA? Because, much like a ninja attack, no one sees them coming.
- I’ll be in Clemson this weekend for Homecoming. If you will be there and need someone to come eat your food and drink your beer, please contact my secretary and schedule a time for me to visit.
- As we all know Algore won the Nobel Peace Prize. Why? Beats the fuck out of me. And it beats the fuck out of everyone else with even the slightest modicum of intelligence. The people in charge are giving away millions of dollars but they can’t buy a clue. Apparently they decided that maybe, perhaps, somehow, someway climate change could possibly lead to non-peace. So by fighting against climate change Algore is fighting for peace. If it sounds like a load, it is. It’s pure, steamy, methane-emitting, global-warming-causing, Grade-A bullshit
- Work is good. I’m not sure why so many of you miss college so much. My work now is much more interesting than anything I did in college, and the salary is many times higher. Although I do occasionally wish I had more opportunities to play beer pong.
- Let me speculate out-loud about oil. For a long time I’ve been bearish on oil prices. Now I’m changing my mind. In ‘06 summer oil prices were much higher than they were in the winter. I fully expected the same thing to happen in ‘07. Such has not been the case. I hypothesize that many people were thinking the same thing I was while, at the the same time, spare capacity shrank even further. That means that stockpiles aren’t as built up this year and that the trough between peaks will be much shallower. In other words, don’t look for oil to go below $70/barrel any time soon. And before you start wishing for oil to go way down, I can imagine only 2 scenarios which would cause such a situation, and one of them isn’t good. It is possible that OPEC will get greedy and produce over quota thereby lowering prices. It is also possible that we will see a major, global economic slowdown. But we shall see what really happens.
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