Archive for December, 2008
Mortgage WTF-ery
Thursday, December 18th, 2008Overall, I’m pretty sympathetic to the borrowers in the mortgage crisis. There were a lot of predatory schemes out there, from bad advertising to just bad practice. I’m grateful, to some degree, for the loosened environment that was the norm three years ago when we bought our house. It helped us get a no money [...]
Wall Street Shenanigans
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008Okay, this has been bugging me since I first heard about it on the radio, but there’s the guy on Wall Street who has been indicted on, I don’t know, a kajillion counts of fraud or something. His name is Bernie Madoff. They keep pronouncing it “Made-off.” “Made-off”? Are you serious? As so many have [...]
Blog Rec
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008One of the nicest guys I knew in the Marines has started a blog, chronicling his return to Iraq as a civilian contractor. He’s a foreman, supervising laborers on an unspecified base somewhere in that dusty sandbox. He seems to have a thing for dumpsters. Check him out at http://jimpetersen.blogspot.com. Also, beware of the December [...]
Pet Peeves: Hated Advice
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008And really, this is just a pet peeve. No need to explain the ways in which the advice is useful, or works, or whatever. It’s just something I find annoying. What is it? “What is the absolute worst thing that can happen to your character? Make it happen. What will be impossible for them to [...]