Recent content by such sweet thunder

Wait what? By the way, Denny, the quoting feature is pretty darn slick.

Well, Russia threatening to commit 911 style attacks on theatergoers would literally inspire chaos, on Christmas of all days.

I see it as Russia 0.00001 US .999999 North Korea can't even trip over its own dick, let alone unleash a series of cyber attacks. The DPRK got state-sponsored help with the attacks. The White House confirmed that the attacks weren't executed from within the country. North Korea only has one...

Yup, and without campaign finance reform, it's going to continue to be the Democratic party. I look at this series of Roberts court decisions on campaign finance as being bad for democracy, but probably a winner for the Ds. There have only been two Republican presidents in my lifetime who...

I get a kick out of the uproar over registration databases. I know why it matters to gun manufacturers: it makes it easy to institute mandatory insurance which would make guns more expensive. I mean, this story isn't about a registration database; it's about the law in NYC. It's just being spun...

Hobo panties. Hobo panties was the answer I was looking for.

I know very little about pre- and post- apartheid SA, which is to say, I know enough to understand that Mandela neither "freed the blacks" nor allowed "socialism to be the dominant force." But if you did believe that -- which again is incorrect -- how on earth would you still be able to debate...

It's funny, Denny. I view Reagan almost exclusively in his role as a political touchstone. To me, Reagan was the guy who: -- Perfected the Southern Strategy of racial infighting -- Introduced the idea that the country can run large deficits during peace time where revenues are not roughly...

This has to be the most inane thing I've ever read.

They had a couple decent teams, but they weren't a contender up until the moment they they got the number one pick in the 2008 draft after having a 1.7% chance to do so. As someone else mentioned, becoming a contender is almost flukish, regardless of what tact a GM takes.

He funded law school by trading derivatives. You laugh but it's in his autobiography. He was some low level research analyst on derivatives at an investment management group IIRC before he moved to Chicago to become a community organizer.

I'm pretty sure gold is down for at least the next twenty or thirty year cycle. You had a weird confluence of events that drove it so high. The major change was India, which was responsible for a sizable percentage of gold purchases, outlawed new importation. The government enacted a series of...

Ha! No I meant that the reason solar was profitable in Massachusetts was that the state required traditional power companies to buy an alotment of their power from solar farmers. This along with federal incentives created a rush in MA toward individuals putting up panels. And so many people got...

You should be careful to look into the possibility of solar flooding the market. I looked into installing rooftop panels and the Massachusetts solar market had crashed over the past six months or so. Basically so many people installed panels that traditional power companies could buy their...

I look for my cues from the insurance industry and, of course, the fact that what 98% of climatologists believe it exists (please don't point out individual examples of crappy scholarship because I do understand that there are bad scholars in in every industry). They insurance industry...