I Pinch.
The Cognitive Evolution Lab at Harvard has devised a test to gage your response to certain moral dilemmas (e.g. would you kill one person to save five). I’m not sure what it proves, but it is somewhat thought-provoking.
Just a quick rewrite of history…
While making the argument for the withdraw of troops from Iraq on Fox News Sunday yesterday, Rep. Maxine Waters (D) of California said the following:
Well, let me just say this. And I don’t think there’s any problem with leaving some of our soldiers what we call over the horizon, in Kuwait someplace, to help respond to a major catastrophe of some kind.
But don’t forget, the Sunnis and the Shiites were getting along before we went in with our occupation, and I don’t think that we can use the argument that if we’re not there, it’s going to be a bloodbath, or they can’t manage to do what they were doing prior to our being there.
That is to say, the Sunnis ruled over the Shiites and tortured and murdered those with opposing viewpoints. Kumbaya.
Here’s a story about a Boston woman who is suing Planned Parenthood for the cost of raising her child after a failed abortion.
Luckily, the child is healthy, but I hope that they include extra money for all the therapy she is going to need when she gets old enought to understand what’s going on.
Retirement? Pishaw! Alan Greenspan is forecasting a 33% chance of a recession by the end of this year. It’s probably getting harder for him to make accurate prognostications like that since his monetary policy is no longer the primary driver (like it was in 2001-2002), but that doesn’t mean he still can’t move markets.
When he was the chief of the FOMC, you couldn’t ever figure out what he was going to do or what he was really thinking, but now he is making odds. The worst part is that everyone takes his word as gospel and this is the guy who never made a decision that wasn’t a huge over-reaction – an occupational hazard no doubt, but Big Ben seems to be doing well. As evidenced by his remarks in an interview with Bloomberg, he seems to be completely oblivious to the fact that people pay attention to what he says.
“I was beginning to feel quite comfortable that I was fully back to the anonymity I was seeking.”
Since he is getting $150,000 a pop, I doubt it will happen, but I could stand for this guy to keep his mouth shut.
(BTW, I don’t know why the font isn’t all the same, but I fiddled with it and it just seems to do it’s own thing.)
