Wisdom of the Week: “You’re a smart lady” actually means “I am about to condescend to you, and say something completely unsupported, that I expect you to take on faith because I just told you how smart you are!”
A little bit of follow-up: Ford may sell the private jets. After all when you are grubbing for money, there are appearances to be maintained. Oh, and GM doesn’t see bankruptcy as an option.
A Trio on Health Care and Health Insurance: I am going to actively try to stop conflating the two, and I hope others will join me. Five Myths, Insurance companies are willing to cover everyone if and only if everyone is required to pay them regardless of what they choose to charge; and almost half of American doctors would get out of medicine if they could. Yeowch.
The economy: on the backdrop of the FDIC taking over 3 more banks (yeah you have a great weekend there, America!), President Elect Obama discusses how we can put out-of-work Americans to work building infrastructure we need, such as fixing our highways and building renewable energy resources!
The Past: It’s the 45th anniversary of the death of JFK. Oh, and the Vatican has chosen to forgive John Lennon for saying he was more popular than Jesus some 40 years ago. Way to go, there Vatican, forgiving somebody who has been dead for close to 30 years for something he said while he was very probably stoned. You are totally showing how “with it” and “hip” you are. How about getting off the high horse to feed some hungry and comfort the afflicted?
Retrospectacular, or some of my favorite November posts of the last five years: To the President on Tax “Reform”; on Investing; on the crappy economy we were pretending was great 5 years ago; on Why politics will always stink; on framing; and it’s hard to believe Call of Duty 4 has been out 2 years. Well, Call of Duty 5 (“World at War”) came out a couple weeks ago. If you nice people don’t mind, I have a Japanese Castle to storm.