brief blurb

~on~

i never feel i have time for a proper blog - nor do i feel i have the audience for a proper blog, but that's another issue - so i have put my twitter updates on the side bar here. so, at the very least, something on this page will be updated with some frequency.

i tend to think in short blurbs ... so twitter is something that appeals to me; however, every great once in a while i like to express myself without the constraints of word limits and this will be the place i do that. ostensibly anyway.

some quick thoughts.

debate tonight. going to watch it. will mccain bring up ayers? if he does, he's foolish and probably hurting his campaign more than he already has. RCP shows Obama with an statistical average of an almost 8 point lead (and as much as a 14 point lead according to some individual polls). with that kind of lead, mccain really can't be dragging things down in the gutter - especially since the negativity is hurting him so much. (NYT) so, if negative tactics are hurting him, why bring it up? but of course, it's news and that is all cnn could talk about last night. oh, the talking heads ... how ye strive just to have something to say. so, what will the debate be like? probably as uninspiring as the last 2, but this is mccain's last chance to make a good impression, and he will no doubt try to use it. my verdict = he won't steal the show or have a game-changer, and things will proceed more or less along the status quo for the next week or so.

the stock market is having a bad day again it seems, despite mondays prodigious 900+ point gain; however, that gain should not be seen as any sort of indicator that things are 'alright.' according to john stewart's guest on the daily show monday, 6 of the 10 largest point gains for the dow happened during the great depression. in other words, market volatility leads to high highs and low lows. a stable and secure market will not storm back, but will rather steadily come back over time. plus, the indicators definitely seem to be pointing to a recession (despite the prolific debate on the subject). so it seems now is the time to persevere and pay off debt because the economy just got cancer, and we're all paying for the treatments.

ok. that's it. time for a cigarette and some lesson planning (or -more likely- more fucking around on the internet, filling the void with extraneous political, economic, and random information)

~off.