My first order of business as self-appointed regent of Greensboro is to forbid property developers election to City Council. Should anyone act in defiance of my edict, I will excoriate each leading citizen individually, until none remain unsullied. Test me, and I will cause such trouble as GSO will ...

Now that Jordan “No Soul” Green has fired me up appropriately, it’s time to do some housecleaning. RE Ryan Shell: The citizens of GSO have a word for Southside property owners: fools. Take your misbegotten Richard Florida BS and leave our city. I don’t know about you, but I&#...

Chasing down arch criminals must be tough business: 2-13-09 13:00: I received a couple of comments from Jordan Green and e-mailed to make sure they were authentic: I would just like to make it clear that (I) have never worked for US Staffing or for Greg Harrison… Furthermore, I am not the author o...

One of the reasons I seem to be better off serving one master is the very nature of the app I’ve written. Master-detail normalization scenarios are problematic. Interestingly, reality seldom presents models going beyond the binary level of abstraction. Indeed, the few, such as inventory Bills ...

My therapist and I have come to an arrangement. Since I’m fixed, he naps while I peruse his library for the hour. Today it was B.F. Skinner’s Walden II . Good stuff. Since my crisis last year, a few things have become apparent. Letting go of my small insurance companies has ended the pho...

This is rich: SarahPAC believes America’s best days are ahead. Our country, founded on conservative principles and the fight for freedom, must confront the challenges of the 21st century with integrity, innovation, and determination. SarahPAC believes energy independence is a cornerstone of th...

From the NYT : Abandoning any pretense about limiting the moral hazards at companies that made foolhardy investments, the plan also will not require shareholders of companies receiving significant assistance to lose most or all of their investment… Nor is the government announcing any plans to...

From Dan Kraut at Bloomberg : Policy sales by U.S. property and casualty insurers probably declined for a second straight year in 2008, the first back-to-back decline since the 1930s, A.M. Best Co. said. Rate reductions contributed to the drop along with “the current recession, the credit crisis, ...

It takes Dr. Paul exactly two minutes to mention the Fed. Something really nasty and stupid calls in from Alabama at 7:00. Shit boys & girls, at 10:00 he dumps the income tax. At 13:00 he keelhauls the GOP. At 16:00 he describes his Campaign for Liberty . From Serenity Wang: The repercussions o...

From Pat Buchanan at MSNBC : Does President Obama really want this Nancy Pelosi New Deal to be his legacy? Because that is exactly what he is inviting. And before he uses force majeure to ram this bill through the Senate, he ought to consider what the honest objections are. When Sen. John Kyl, at a ...