The Ignorant Investor

The New York Times says:

House Speaker John A. Boehner all but rejected President Obama’s request to speak to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 7 by offering an audience the following night. Mr. Obama had asked to deliver a much anticipated speech outlining his proposals to boost employment and the economy on Wednesday, Sept. 7 — the same time as a scheduled Republican presidential debate, as it happens.

Nobody is going to care what Obama says in his address to Congress, because the guy is a small-bore, economically-conservative president who won't offer up any plan he can't get through Congress, and the plan will consist of tired, worn-out ideas that everyone has already heard.

On the other side, nobody but political junkies will care about a republican debate that happens months before the first primary. So this is all political theater for bloggers and the D.C media. Scheduling a speech to step on a previously scheduled debate from the opposing party is pussy pool, and what does it accomplish except make him see petty?

I suppose the idea is to rerun the Clinton move of forcing Newt Gingrich to sit at the back of Air Force One. The republicans will complain like Newt did, and the media will mock them for complaining. That's the idea, right?

I was reading a political blog today, only at the top isn't a post on the election but rather one in which some asshole starts talking about the meal he had last night and how his wife is an ex-chef or something.

Bloggers talking about their meals is so tired. Equivalent to those conversations about lawn care and local school taxes that people associate with suburbanites. I read blogs to find interesting thoughts about politics, the markets, art, whatever. "This is what I had for dinner last night," followed by a recipe isn't interesting. It's tired and tedious and made worse by commenters who insist on describing their own favorite recipes or what they ate the prior night. Or how they shop in the best farmer's market in their region. Or only eat tomatoes grown fertilized by the shit of grass-fed cows. Who fucking cares?

Leave the discussion of food to food blogs. Or at least come up with a more interesting idea than "I ate a good dinner last night."