- "May you live in interesting times," goes the (alleged) Chinese proverb. We have had that with the stock market in recent weeks. Today, the stock market gapped open as Fed Chairdude Ben Bernanke road in on the white horse and cut the discount rate. The forces of darkness countered with a fade, claiming that if Bernanke is doing this then something must seriously be wrong with the economy. But in the end, the forces of good won the day.
- What side do you think Chinese actress Ziyi Zhang is on?
- I'm not going to change my views that I've had the past 2 weeks. I'm a bull here and believe that the wild volatility and extreme pessimism are presenting us with a buyable correction within a bull market. I remain 100% long.
- You know, the new TV season is right around the corner. No more of this weak summer cheese they're throwing at us.
- XBOX 360 version of Madden 2008 better than the Sony PS3 version? You know, the XBOX 360 also wirelessly connects to the web and lets you stream video content from your PC. PS3 doesn't do the latter.
- The Naked News will go on:
The government made grants totaling 400,000 yen ($3,500) to help cover production of the weekly five-minute program on satellite TV, which features a newsreader who removes her clothes between news items that she delivers in sign language.
The funding dried up when the government, under fire for supporting "Naked Sign Language News," changed funding guidelines for programming aimed at the disabled to exclude pornography, local media reported.
Hey, one man's pornography is another man's news. Naked News, that is.