Michael D. Brown

Recognize this gentleman?  I He’s Eric Arthur Blair, born in 1903 and died in 1950. You probably know him better as George Orwell. I thought of Mr. Orwell today after reading an article in The London Times where the Director of Public Prosecutions derided the “big brother state of surveillance.”  Yes, the man who heads [...]

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Wow.  Since Friday two comic stories about two very different countries.  Perfect for a little Saturday night humor before Saturday Night Live takes on Palin and Fey.    First, we learn that at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub Brad Sciullo of Uniontown, Pennsylvania ate a 15-pound cheese burger with five-pounds of toppings including bun, lettuce, tomatoes, [...]

Wherever I travel or whatever meetings I’m in, invariably the conversation turns to the upcoming election and most of my friends’ and business associates’ dissatisfaction with the two major candidates running for President.  And invariably, talk turns to who their preferred choice would have been. One such person almost equally mentioned by both my Democrat [...]

Just driving home through North Boulder, Colorado tonight when what did I see, but another point of view, even in the People’s Republic of Boulder:Photograph by Michael Brown via iPhone.  No endorsement or opposition implied!

I commented earlier the Administration simply pulled the $700 billion bailout figure out of thin air.  Now we find out what type of leadership Congress really has. That $700 billion bailout bill?  Well, now it’s $1.8 trillion (that’s $1,800,000,000,000.00) or approximately $17,000 per household – and still climbing. Thanks, Congress.  Thanks, Mr. President. I’ve searched [...]

Tonight lots of you were focused on watching the Vice Presidential Debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin.  I tried to watch it, too.  She was good, exceeded expectations, so won.  Biden was Biden, so he lost. Do you care? While we’re focused on the bailout, the debates, or whatever else is going on….I kept [...]

I just returned this evening from Houston.  I was invited down by Houston Baptist University to survey the damage to their campus from Hurricane Ike. On the way back to Denver I was reading last week’s The Economist and ran across an article about the effects of Hurricane Ike on Cuba.  200,000 homeless.  And the [...]

Economist Jeffrey Miron says the bailout plan presented to Congress was the wrong solution to the crisis CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (CNN) – Congress has balked at the Bush administration’s proposed $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. Under this plan, the Treasury would have bought the “troubled assets” of financial institutions in an attempt to avoid economic [...]