A really cool photo gallery titled “A Walk Through Time“.
The talk of Chevy Chase recently made me think of an old Rolling Stone interview with Johnny Carson:
I did throw a line against Chevy Chase once. Somebody talked about ad-libbing, and I said that I didn’t think Chevy Chase could ad-lib a fart after a baked-bean dinner. I think he took umbrage at that a little bit.
A somewhat interesting post at Econbrowser on whether the relative strength of the dollar causes changes in oil price. It’s a little technical but the graph at the bottom makes the most interesting point: at the time of the post, oil prices followed the same general pattern regardless of what currency it was priced in. Which raises some questions. Can global inflation occur? Or would that just be a red-herring to avoid admitting that commodity prices really are on the rise?
On the global warming climate change front, some scientists are looking past whether the models fit the data and instead questioning whether the data is even valid and of course because I’m linking to it, their answer is that it isn’t.
The Washington Post had a few good articles lately.
The first is about the area where I work, the construction being done, and about how any number of super-secret government data lines run underground just waiting to be snapped by construction workers.
The editors still fail to see why the government is nationalizing GM. I for one thing the federal government should go ahead and cut its losses now before GM inevitably turns into AMTRAK.
And they’re also calling BS on Obama and his claims that fixing health care are going to fix the current fiscal mess.
