Category: AIA Archive

I watched all the debates and was underwhelmed. Except for the third one, all they did was repeat the same sound bites and talking points they’ve been giving at their rallies. To his credit McCain did drop the bomb that he was going to call for a spending ‘freeze’ which to me is a good…

Today was the 1 year anniversary of a historic high of the Dow Jones Industrial average. Lots of fools and novices selling off their stocks out of fear. Look on the bright side there’s lots of stocks that are cheap now, like GM and Citibank. Giselle is doing well. More sonogram photos and a video…

In case your wondering, the photo is a fake. Apparently one of a number of Photoshop’d hoax photos that have been circulating. http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2008/09/03/more-sarah-palin-hot-pictures.htm The news (especially CNN) can be so freak’n irresponsible. I just watched them do a segment with an economic expert who states (quite accurately) that the reason there’s a credit crisis is…

In the immortal words of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Don’t Panic. The news media and their ‘financial pundits’ keep saying “This is the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression”, which upsets me because it’s a flat out lie, designed I guess to increase ratings. Yes things are bad but common, every time…

It’s a quiet day in New York. It’s September 11th and I remember that morning 7 years ago when Giselle and I heard the news. We had just started living in Hawaii. Now we live just across the bridge from Ground Zero. What’s sad is that the rebuild of the site and 9/11 memorial is…

I’m glad the Dems and GOP national conventions are over. They’re such a wasteful rah-rah fest. I’m waiting for the debates. The nomination campaigns have been so long and heated that I can’t help feeling like the national election are a bit of a denouement. Me, I’m for Magneto. The baby’s growing nicely, though no…

Now that the Olympics are over we’re starting to see the Gold winners showing up on the various talk shows and cereal boxes. The closing ceremonies was a bit like Cirque du Soleil gone amuck at the Superbowl. I actually got a little bored and muted the sound and played the Disney Electric Light Parade…