http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com Random rants and curious explanation. Sat, 10 May 2008 00:40:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Let’s play Russian Roulette. My rules. I’m betting $1,000 the chamber will be empty. You hold the gun to your head and pull the trigger. Click. You owe me $1,000. Next round, same rules, you hold the gun to your head and fire. Click. ... http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2008/05/08/big-banker-bingo/ Since you’re busy and I’m not, I try to survey the arcane world of bleeding-edge research and abstract the few key findings worth your attention. The following are sourced from Science, the publication of the National Association for the Advancement of Science, of which I am a member until ... http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2008/05/02/earthshaking-science/ I am a huge fan of Talking Points Memo and, in particular, TPM Election Central, so the following must be taken in the spirit of admiration and bonhomie in which it is offered: You guys don't know how to report on polls. Seriously. You're utterly clueless. All it takes is a ... http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2008/04/28/lost-in-a-sea-of-numbers/ To deal with the looming specter of Credit Default Swaps imploding like subprime mortgages, one proposal is to centralize the clearing of these transactions through the Chicago-based Clearing Corporation. Chief operating officer of the Clearing Corporation is Kevin McClear. The move is favored by Mr. McClear and by ... http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2008/04/28/comex-comix/ Anyone with some high school math realizes that the race for the Democratic nomination has been over for about six weeks at this point. Obama continues to run a fairly classy, non-negative campaign largely because he has the luxury to do so. The Sound and Fury from the ... http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2008/04/27/the-thing-that-wouldnt-leave/ Dr. Steve, our best and bravest battlefield reporter, filed this report on Monday. I am glad you are in Pennsylvania to hear constant hilaryobamabill stuff and i know you will help obama carry pa and end hilary's agony. How could they have 106 million dollars. LBJ ... http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2008/04/23/look-up-in-the-sky-its-a-bird-its-a-bat-its-an-illegal-immigrant/ In the 1960s the CEO of an average Fortune 100 company made about 60 times as much money as his average employee. His pre-evasion income tax rate was 91% until 1964, when it was reduced to 77%. By 2001, I thought the end times must be at hand because the ... http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2008/04/17/wealth-gap-goes-exponential/ An update on the vanishing gap in superdelegate endorsements between HRC and BHO. When we last checked in (data through April 2), the superdel endorsement gap had fallen to 33. Since then Barack is up another 10 endorsements, and Hillary is net +2, so the gap has shrunk by ... http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2008/04/16/mind-the-gap/ http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2008/04/13/yearning-to-breathe-free/ Gail Collins on the ironies of the first black and the first woman presidential candidates trying to woo white males, the swing voters in Pennsylvania: * "Courting them is extremely tricky. It's not like you can promise that under your presidency, more white men would be appointed to the Supreme ... http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2008/04/05/trying-to-get-white-men-to-jump/