Month December 2007

Students stone police in Iran riot

They chanted slogans against President Ahmadinejad and carried placards saying “Live free or die”, “No war, no fascism” and “Women must decide their fate, not the state.” Wow.

Democratic sea change towards Obama?

Andrew Sullivan cites email from Democratic readers saying they see a major shift recently away from Hillary and towards Obama. Among the last straws for [a “weather-vane” Democrat] was Hillary challenging Obama on character grounds, which he saw as a…

Your unsettling financial thought for the day

The publicized and photographed overnight “runs” on Countrywide and the UK’s Northern Rock in mid-August were nothing compared to what’s taking place in the shadows of the real banking system. Credit contraction, with its inevitable companion of asset destruction, is…

The good news is…

We’ll be having five days in a row of precipitation, which will certainly help bring an end to the “moderate drought” here in Connecticut. The bad news is much of the precipitation will be freezing rain and sleet, which makes…