Saturday, September 20, 2008

Dis'CERN'ing the financial blackhole

When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was about to be fired off, some sceptics feared it might create micro blackholes that might suck in the entire planet! It isn't clear what's cooking in the 27km Swiss-French kitchen, but the world surely did witness a micro blackhole develop. Only that it was across the Atlantic, and it wasn't a Higgs boson but Lehman's bosom in the eye of the storm. Hank Paulson must have wished the LHC did suck up the whole world before he was called out to build a Hank's arc to save all the toxic waste spewing out of Wall Street.

Let's just hope we come out of the recent blackhole and never get into the other.

Saturday, September 06, 2008

Hurricane Palin

Just after McCain introduced hurricane Palin to the country, another hurricane chose to steal her thunder. Gustav is no VP candidate but surely captured national limelight away from the Republican convention and Palin.

I believe these hurricane names are alphabetical with Hanna and Ike following Gustav. McCain should have picked a VP candidate who legitimately preceded Gustav. Huckabee, Romney and Jindal don't cut it. Maybe a less popular Lindsay Graham. McCain clearly missed a trick.