Month November 2007

Saturday cat blogging

We’re fostering a mom cat and three kittens from the ASPCA until they’re old enough to be adopted. Sumo, Shy Guy, and Squeak (top to bottom.) Sumo is by far the biggest, Shy Guy hangs back and likes to go…

They didn’t cave

Feinstein and Schumacher didn’t cave by saying they will vote for Mukasey, the Atty General nominess who won’t say waterboarding is unacceptable. This is what many get wrong about the Democrats. It’s not that too many of them are cowards.…

Subprime follies

It’s a truism that Wall Street runs on greed and fear. The fear factor just got cranked up for some of them. The NY Atty General is suing Washington Mutual for inflating real state appraisals while the SEC likely to…

Tennessee town has run out of water

The volunteer fire chief of Orme Tenn. wakes up at 5:30 am three days a week and makes a dozen round trips to a fire hydrant in Alabama, filling a fire truck with water, and bringing it back. At 6…

The Housing Misery Index

How miserable is your state? The Housing Misery Index determines that by adding mortgage delinquency and unemployment rates. Hawaii is the happiest, Mississippi the most miserable. California ranks right in the middle. Michigan, where I went to college, ranks only…