Monthly Archives: September 2008

The President is “Very Disappointed”

By admin | Published: September 29, 2008

Upon hearing the bailout failed to pass in the house: A White House spokesman said that President Bush was “very disappointed.” “There’s no question that the country is facing a difficult crisis that needs to be addressed,” Tony Fratto told reporters. He said the president will be meeting with members of his team later in [...]

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Insightful Commentary From Ziya Danishmend

By admin | Published: September 29, 2008

The other day I stumbled across Ziya Danishmend’s blog, Notes from the Backyard. Ziya is a CD over at Blast Radius who I met last year while conducting a job search. Our chat went well and his point of view was very prescient and insightful. What we covered is essentially broken down in a post [...]

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How to Become a US Citizen

By admin | Published: September 28, 2008
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Economic Shock Therapy

By admin | Published: September 21, 2008

Last Spring I read the Shock Doctrine and for a few months I was an evangelist for it’s ideas to everyone I talked to. But somehow the Shock Doctrine’s central thesis wasn’t the most present thing in my mind during this week’s financial meltdown. I guess I was so distracted by the Fed Chairman Ben [...]

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Loving the Animated GYWO

By admin | Published: September 20, 2008
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Minitek Music and Innovation Festival

By admin | Published: September 15, 2008

When I heard the word-of-mouth that there would be something called The Minitek Music and Innovation Festival happening in NYC over the weekend I was intrigued. Music and innovation – sounds right up my alley. Evidently a group of individuals that usually throw parties in NYC were attempting to go one step further with an [...]

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Obama Vs. McCain Tax Cuts

By admin | Published: September 14, 2008

So I was talking with a tax attorney the other day and he was trying to convince me that Obama would tax the middle and upper-middle class more than McCain to redistribute the wealth down to the poor. This, he argued, would be putting an undue pressure on the “middle-class” therefore McCain was their real [...]

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Steven Johnson’s New Book

By admin | Published: September 14, 2008

It’s a another book in the vein of The Ghost Map — an idea book wrapped around an historical narrative, and like Ghost Map, it has an organizing theme of how innovative ideas emerge and spread in a society, while integrating many different threads along the way: 18th-century London coffeehouse culture; the Adams-Jefferson letters; the [...]

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Matt Damon ROCKS

By admin | Published: September 14, 2008
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Great Mad Men Illustrations

By admin | Published: September 14, 2008

Great Mad Men illustrations from Flickr user Dyna Moe.

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