I’ve recently become enamored with the idea of buying a home. Prospective home buyers are about the only people who stand to gain anything from the current state of the market. The more the financial analysts and politicians come to realize we are ankle deep in a recession already, the more they panic.  Cut a rate here, let inventory rest there.  ( Read more... )

...when tornadoes tore through Tennessee their state government closed polling places, but in the face of an ice storm one of our judges slotted an extra ninety minutes for voting. Well I know one judge who just lost his support among the volunteer bloc ( Read more... )

I was going to write a long winded diatribe on how much the New Hampshire primaries really upset me. It was going to be a Clinton-bashing, run on sentence-palooza. But then I read this link which encapsulated my feelings pretty well:
Can Hillary Cry Her Way Back to the White House? by Maureen Dowd

Money Quote:

"There was a poignancy about the ( Read more... )

So thank you Michael Richards: you’ve made it that much easier to part with my Seinfeld box-set. But I kid. I don’t really know how to take it. Whether he’s some kinda racist or just going through that old age dementia thing (which his rambling apology tapes seem to indicate). I’d rather not get a queasy feeling when watching Seinfeld reruns. It’ ( Read more... )