Cartoonish
by matt at 6:00 am on September 25th, 2007 in GeneralI ran across two really good cartoons yesterday.
The first one really nails the difference between the speech reserved for military men who support the war vs. those who don’t. Piss and moan all you like, Max Cleland and John Kerry got it much worse than Petraeus got from Move-On, and they didn’t come armed with a stack of misleading charts and graphs.
The next one features Tom Tomorrow boiling down four years of 1115.org economic posts into a six-panel cartoon. Though it will always be frustrating to see non-millionaires arguing for supply-side “economics,” I do take a non-trivial amount of pleasure in knowing how much they are screwing themselves.
Nick wrote:
Matt, aren’t you part of “themselves?” I agree with you completely, it’s just that my schadenfreude is tempered by being on the same sinking ship. Are your bank accounts in yuan? let me in on the secret.
Posted 25 Sep 2007 at 8:22 pm ¶
matt wrote:
well, i am getting a bit screwed by their policies, but nowhere near as bad as someone with a family, house with a below water mortgage, car to inject with oil, and kids in a shitty school system.
i’m lucky to be largely isolated from all of this nonsense. i have extremely cheap rent, not one penny of debt, and a low stress/short hour job that pays all my bills and allows me to spend as much time on photography as i like.
yes, i am very concerned about the sinking dollar and the possible erosion of my savings. i used my whole library of curse words (and made up some new ones) when helicopter ben cut rates last week.
i’m looking at ways to protect myself from inflation. i was looking at TIPS, but unfortunately the games that they play with the CPI would reduce the utility of that approach. and besides, el presidente told me that government paper is worthless.
i’m not going to get into the other options on the blog because A) i’m sure there are legal issues i don’t want to deal with, and B), in the immortal words of Johnny Caspar/Giovanni Casparro:
i simply will not condone hip riding.
Posted 25 Sep 2007 at 8:46 pm ¶