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So, we received our census form in the mail yesterday. I filled it out and dropped it in the mail box this morning. Quick and easy, although I’m a little sad about the demise of the long form (killing my odd hope that the Jedi census phenomenon would come to the U.S.), and annoyed that [...]
Via the newswires: The Obama administration is considering several steps that would review the legality of the controversial Bowl Championship Series, the Justice Department said in a letter Friday to a senator who had asked for an antitrust review. In the letter to Sen. Orrin Hatch, obtained by The Associated Press, Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich wrote [...] 
Seen on Insurance Journal: California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner said that his position has become too politicized and should return to being one that’s appointed by the governor. […] California’s insurance commissioner became an elected position when voters approved Proposition 103 in 1991.[…] Poizner says the insurance commissioner acts as an important watchdog for consumers and should not [...]
Today’s the first day I’ve been in the office this week So, of course, one of the first things I did this morning when I got in was to flip the calendar hanging on my cube wall from November to December. My calendar is, of course, Despair Inc.’s demotivator calendar. The image for December:
While [...]
Some of you may be familiar with the mess facing the California state legislature. Thanks to years of ballot initiatives, the state faces certain spending mandates. The state is also limited in its ability to increase revenue, thanks to another ballot initiative requiring a supermajority for such votes and partisan politicians’ inability to play well [...] 
Once upon a time, I wished that a balanced budget amendment would include a provision reading: Congress shall make no law which embraces more than one subject, that subject to be expressed in the title. All acts which repeal, revive or amend former laws, shall recite in their caption, or otherwise, the title or substance of [...]
Seen at the New York Times: Testifying before a House Appropriations subcommittee, [Treasury secretary] Geithner said a broad set of regulatory change proposals should be ready to unveil soon, and a new entity to protect consumers of financial products could be part of that effort. “We are examining the merits of setting up a new independent [...]
I mentioned earlier today that I’m a bit busy at the day job. Without going into specifics, one of the big items on my to-do list is culling through laws and regs in all 55 state/territorial jurisdictions in the U.S. to answer a couple of particular odd questions. (Yes, normally this would be a compliance/government affairs function, [...] 
I’m taking this opportunity to repost a comment I made at The Moderate Voice. This morning, TMV featured a post discussing some Republicans’ bristling over an apparent lack of FEMA response to the Kentucky ice storm. It concludes: Given the nature of many Democrats’ response to George W. Bush and “heckofajob Brownie” following Katrina, we shouldn’t be [...]
A couple of days ago, I issued a ranty rebuttal to presidential outrage over wall street bonuses. Maybe my own reaction was a bit too knee-jerk – banks and insurers collectively could stand to consider how their behavior looks to those outside , and frame their actions accordingly – but my I stand by my [...] |
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