Janet Yellen broke it. Up until her confirmation this week, the Federal Reserve System was chaired by a long line of these guys: But, our obsession with demographic firsts is pretty stale. Numbers don’t really care. You go, girl. Performed by the ipoetlaureate. Music produced by djclutch. [wpaudio url=”http://www.ipoetblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Monopoly.mp3″ dl=”0″ text=”Homemaker Equity“]
Category: politics
Glitch in the Matrix
Every new generation of the iphone, introduced, has more bugs than a Looney Tune. Or a coon dog watching an episode of Breaking Bad. Google maps sent people to an airport runway. The first people that buy a new technology get hosed. Costs more. Works less. Like a 3-D television. Two things are true about […]
Bright Side
Trust me, it wasn’t for lack of trying. To contract it, I engaged in all the traditional and recommended activities. But, apparently I’m impervious to mononucleosis. I mean a month off from shool?? I would have made it with Mrs. Fink and drank a bottle of baseball team back wash, for 30 straight days of […]
Shameful
The conduct of China’s Princeling, Bo Xilai, you ask? (I like to imagine his last name is pronounced like the prodigious rapper of my youth, Chi Ali.) Nope. That he was just recently indicted for bribery, corruption, and abuse of power? Nope. How about that I already have a Princelings song ready to roll? Uh […]
Extra Mustard
Anthony Weiner is back in the news both as a Mayoral candidate in New York City and for new allegations concerning lewd text messaging with someone other than his wife. I covered briefly his prior transgressions here. His mayoral candidacy is the second high profile political comeback of the year, after former Governor, Mark Sanford, […]
Cliffhanger
They’ve dubbed it the fiscal cliff. The simultaneous expiration of the Bush era tax cuts and decreases to critical government spending. It would result in higher taxes for nearly everyone and almost certainly a new recession, say the experts. To reduce the deficit and avoid the cliff, the President wants to increase taxes for the […]
Dishonorable Discharge
Way to ring in Veterans’ Day, Patraeus. I suffer this weird bipolarity with our military. I have had the luxury of becoming mostly pacifist. But, I also have this great guilt and reverence for their service. Much of my family has served honorably, even through the conflict in Iraq. And, as trite as it is […]
Color My Map
My wife couldn’t get over John King’s hands. (King, along with Wolf Blitzer, is one of CNN’s main electoral analysts on election night.) They were frozen in a sort of claw position no matter the gesture. I told her, “Uh. Everyone knows the molded action-figure-finger is the optimal hand positioning for manipulating the Magic Board.” […]
Nail Biter
This is my electoral prediction for tonight. I’m predicting a Romney upset in Ohio and Virginia but that President Obama holds onto Pennsylvania and Colorado, and the White House, barely. Ohio and Virginia (and PA) are places precisely where voter energy and turnout has been overestimated in Obama’s favor. I do not think that Obama […]
What it tis it taint and what taint it tis
There is a quantum principle that says you can’t know the velocity and the location of a subatomic particle at the same time. You can know one attribute or another but not both simultaneously. And they (as in smart theoretical physics dudes) swear it’s not a technological issue. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is an immutable […]
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