Alan Sullivan: “When [investors] realize the V could really be a W, they will panic again.” He’s talking about a V-shaped or W-shaped recession, of course. On the bright side, at least we’d know which president to blame for a “W”-shaped recession. Heh. (We’d better hope we don’t get an “O”-shaped recession, since that would involve the economy actually going… Read more »
I hardly think it takes explaining, but well it would seem the Police in the UK are missing something here. They can respond within minutes when someone threatens to do something about illegally parked cars (just threatens, doesn’t actually do anything) but cannot be bothered to do anything about his complaints for months? And lest we need to be clear… Read more »
Continuing on the theme of photos from my parents’ visit to Denver (which has been great fun!), here are some from our lunch date Tuesday at Katie Mullen’s, a neat Irish restaurant and pub downtown that opened in February. I love this shot of my Dad, wearing his classic skeptical-Joe-Loy face: Here’s my Mom taking a picture of him, with… Read more »
Fans leave Coors Field last night after the Dodgers’ 6-1 win over the Rockies ended Colorado’s four-game winning streak: I took the photo from Fadó Irish Pub, where I was watching Brian Clancy (here’s a photo) with my Mom, my Dad, Kristy and her boyfriend, and maybe a hundred of our closest Rockies-fan friends, who dropped in on their way… Read more »
Thought for the day: It just occurred to me that there’s a noticeable theme, cutting across various issues, to a number of the arguments I’ve been reading and hearing lately from many Republicans and conservatives. That theme is cognitive dissonance. For instance: • Obama’s soft-on-terror stances are endangering America by dismantling crucial Bush policies. This proves the Republicans were right… Read more »
Above: Via NWS, a computer-simulated radar image for Saturday at 8:00 PM EDT. CAVEAT #1: This is a long-range, 84-hour forecast from a single computer model, and is quite likely to be wrong. CAVEAT #2: It also doesn’t look much like a hurricane. A commenter on Alan Sullivan’s blog mocks it as “Occluded Front Danny.” Heh. Tropical Storm Danny has… Read more »
“For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.” Address to Democratic National Convention, 1980. I struggle to think of a more fitting epitaph. RIP Teddy.
I just got home — a little later than I’d planned — from Coors Field, after watching, in person, “one of the strangest games ever in Denver,” a 14-inning affair that ended in the first walkoff grand slam in Rockies history (and the first grand slam I’ve ever personally witnessed, never mind a 14th-inning walkoff slam), with my Dad. Pretty… Read more »
Hurricane Bill is no more, downgraded to a Tropical Storm — and simultaneously declared extratropical — at 5:00 AM EDT today, after lashing Atlantic Canada yesterday and overnight. Dr. Jeff Masters has a round-up of Bill’s impacts on Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Most notable, to me, is this tidbit: “At Peggys Cove, three men were hit by a giant wave… Read more »
In keeping with my post last weekend showing off a few photos of fruits and flowers, here are some of my shots from our visit to the Denver Botanical Gardens today: And here’s one from a few days ago — a tomato from our garden.