Disillusionment
It's nice to see Tsjaz posting again. I think this means that the wrist is getting better.Skye and I volunteered at the Humane Society for the first time yesterday. (Important background for the next sentence: I have always loved dogs, and I have been working on convincing Skye to allow us to get a dog; she has been resistant, and has been working on delaying getting a dog for as long as possible). Skye couldn't fall asleep last night because she fell in love with a dog there. We likely won't get her ("Ella"), but we are discussing it.
I fear I must take back some of my Obama-praise. Gregg Easterbrook writes that Obama's cap on CEO pay is actually voluntary. Worse yet, CEOs from AIG, Bank of America and Citigroup are exempt. This is all ridonculous. So jeers to Obama for political showmanship without substance.
Worse yet: limit CEO pay doesn't actually change a whole lot. AS pointed out by the AP, many CEOs making $1 per year actually take home a lot in other forms of compensation.
More on Easterbrook: he does us all a favor in that link by reminding us of predictions that pundits previously made. He focuses on football, but mentions some political and financial predictions, too. Lesson learned: nobody knows anything about anything. With 24-hour news and sports stations requiring material to fill the day, an easy way to fill time is to have people talking about their opinions and predictions. Most of these turn out to be wrong, though, so you are listening to people who don't know much more than you. This is how we, as a nation, have decided to spend our time? Terrible.
I actually thought up maintaining a website that tracks the predictions made at the end of each episode of The McLaughlin Group. If I thought that anybody cared, I might do it.
So there you go. Our society's problem is a lack of accountability, and Easterbrook seems to be the only guy out there doing something about it.
Speaking of accountability, let's all hope that Obama releases Bush's secrets. The argument against him doing this is terrible: that he shouldn't do it since he will be subjected to the same thing later on. What better motivator to do only things that you would be proud of?
Finally, let's all watch Howard Kurtz being a stupid, unaware jerkhead. I just wish Couric would have given him more hell than she did (at least she didn't totally blow-off his stupidity).
posted by Dirk Awesome @ 9:47 AM
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