The Bundle of Banal Observations

George Will’s insight again shines a light on our societal need to be victims.  Economic analysis has turned into a race to designate victimhood.  The worst aspect of this economic hypochondria, and need to describe every mortgage broker as Mr. Peabody from Its a Wonderful Life, is it makes it that much harder to separate those that were simply riding the bubble from the true economic hit men who were crafting nefarious schemes.

Don’t be convinced otherwise: we live in a complicated world.

misplacedlibrarian:

As usual, an interesting take from David Brooks.

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Newseum posts images of newspaper front

As always, George Will has provided a wonderful historic context for today’s political argument.  That being said, he doesn’t exactly refute Obama’s gaffs, he simply frames it.

Okay, this is pretty cool.  Thanks to AppleScript and some fancy email rules, this fellow has figured out you can send commands such as shutdown, restart, sleep, etc. to your Mac via email anytime, anywhere.