Month June 2009

The Fall of the House of Madoff

So now all of a sudden Ruth Madoff is saying how “devastated” she is by what Bernie did, now that he got 150 years. Neither of their apologies seemed even remotely sincere to me but precisely what sociopaths pretending to…

Is blogging dead?

Jon Buscall So Steve Rubel has dumped blogging for lifestreaming. Charles Arthur at The Guardian also notes that participation on Twitter and Facebook is replacing blogging. Whilst I’ve noticed some of my favourite bloggers aren’t posting as frequently as usual,…

Hotel foreclosures soaring in California

From Hotel Law Blog The number of hotel defaults or foreclosures in California has jumped 125% in the last 60 days. California now has 31 hotels foreclosed on and 175 hotels in default. Approximately 2,500 California hotels were either financed…

A South Park authority is born

Sue just completed watching every South Park episode for all thirteen years online at SouthParkStudios (and the movie for $2.99 from Amazon) and now can be considered an authority on the subject. We both agree that Butters is our favorite…

Is Goldman Sachs the root of all evil?

Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone thinks so, saying Goldman helped create then profit from all the great bubbles. But Daniel Indiviglio at The Atlantic says otherwise. Goldman is a major player, but hardly the only one. But he then goes…