I think so. Today I broke out the Oxford shoes I bought in Paris last fall, paired them with my military jacket and was set to go. Too bad I had nowhere to go. Instead, I finished all my work for the entire week. Now what do I do? Muse. – Lady GaGa has some [...]
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Yes, my friends. Kosovo has declared its independence, for the second time. That puts us at 193 official countries in the world for over 6.6 billion people. Just when you thought world affairs were complicated enough.
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So, the PNC revealed the latest indicators today about just how bad our economy is doing post-subprime mortgage crisis. The costs of the 12 Days of Christmas this year: $78,100 That’s up 4% from last year, which was only $75,122. Mind you, you’re buying some of the items repeatedly (ie. a partridge in a pear [...]
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10 days, four signatures, a gazillion emails, 3 circuses, 5 trips to the moon, and 1 sexual favor later, I have declared an International Studies major with a focus on Europe, a concentration in Economics, and a proficiency in Italian. (Eat your heart out Prince William.) I will be officially declaring this tonight on Leno. [...]
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I have two words for you: Barack Obama. Dude, I don’t know what happened, but the old Obama is back and life is meaningful again. Watch these two videos and you’ll see what I mean. SNL Cameo: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BLsHvD-GCY[/youtube] JJ Dinner in Iowa last Saturday. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tydfsfSQiYc[/youtube]
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So here I was, just walking to orchestra like every other Thursday and who should pop out of the pickup truck down the side-walk? The Dalai Lama. He was with some bella and was walking to see the Patrick Dougherty sculpture outside the CFA. I was totally going to take a picture with my cell [...]
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As economists and politicians alike are coming to terms with the fact that economic levels and indicators and all the works are perhaps not going to continue to grow and hence may return to levels from a few years ago, it appears that there is one return that no one predicted: the return of the [...]
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The more I think about it, the more I realize that the race for president is like one big, fuzzy AA group, a place where candidates go around and make admissions to make people love them and criticize their fellow candidates to make themselves feel better. There’s nothing wrong with belonging to an AA group; [...]
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I have this sudden obsession with Gothic novels. And not Frankenstein or Dracula, but their predecessors. They’re amazing! Plus, it’s an entire genre that deals with entirely messed up material and is not plagued by sequels or Disney. Anyway, my point is that, through researching the genre, I am convinced that we are living in [...]
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