Daily Archives: September 30, 2010

These people should work at the airports. Medal of Honor winner and the 10-year-old grandson of another denied admission to the White House because of lack of security clearance for the first and violation of dress code for the boy. … Continue reading →

Oh please, oh please? I don’t know anything about the candidate running against him, but he’ll be an improvement.

Lights have been flickering on and off here in Riverside (5:30 ish). So far, no trouble except I had to restart the router. I’m off for a class this evening but if you hear nothing else from me  tonight, it … Continue reading →

From Best of the Web Killer Paper Clips “One of the tools that teachers use to get kids jazzed about science–hands-on science kits–could face an uncertain future amid a debate on safety,” the Associated Press reports from Washington: The Consumer … Continue reading →

Because she’s predicting skimpy bonuses on Wall Street this year, and 80,000 workers fired next year, just in the U.S. That would put a crimp in the Greenwich market.

Or so says Teri Buhl in her Forbes blog today.

According to Accuweather, the real fun arrives tonight.

As you might guess from my posting book reviews, there was just a skimpy – 15 or so – list of houses for today’s eastern Greenwich. It’s likely that brokers, seeing the forecast for today, didn’t bother scheduling anything, but … Continue reading →

I just received Ken Follet’s new book Fall of Giants. It’s a 1000 page novel in the “Pillars of the Earth” vein, but this volume (even at 1,000 pages it’s only the first in a trilogy!) covers roughly the period of the … Continue reading →

Indian court rules that holy site will be divided three ways.

Feds issue new drilling regulations but continue the moratorium On the other hand, Cuba is gearing up to explore for oil fifty miles from Florida, and Mexico’s already pumping oil further west. So who’s this helping? Or hurting?

In response to my earlier posting of a forlorn sign at the Riverside Railroad station bike rack, a reader has offered to send along a report detailing 75 break ins at the station in the past 90 days.* Could this possibly … Continue reading →

If almost a quarter of all home sales are coming from foreclosed properties and if the entire foreclosure process is going to be suspended for, say, the next six months as the lenders sort out their paperwork problems, then we … Continue reading →