Month October 2007

Iran War Watch. 10/11/07

How insane are these foaming-at-the-mouth warmongers? Check out Norman Podhoretz, known as the patriarch of neoconservative nutballism. A confidant of Bush, Podhoretz is now running around in the White House inner circle promoting a massive bombing attack on Iranians. He…

China has 106 billionaires

That’s up from 15 last year (according to Bloomberg TV) Barron’s reports (behind their subscription firewall) that more than a few of new Chinese stocks available on US markets were reverse splits into shell corporations, something which should immediately arouse…

Attention spammers

If you wish to send spam pretending to be the IRS, and tell me to clickthrough for the refund, don’t format the amount using European style notation, as Americans generally will wonder why the amount is “$123,45” and not “$123.45”…