Pop that 1,565.15 cherry already

Look here S&P 500, if you're going to keep teasing us about hitting new all time highs day in and day out, sooner or later everyone is going to figure out you're that bastard in Aesop's fable about the boy who cried wolf.

Will you please just hit that new high already so the masses can continue on with their mundane lives? If you watch MSNBC, you'll notice that the bottom left corner of the channel has a new tenant whose sole purpose is to inform viewers how far away we are from hitting the new high. It's completely distracting and honestly quite useless... and yet like deer in the headlights, I find myself utterly powerless to look away. Its constant updates continue to lure me into the belief that somehow getting past 1,565.15 will signal an end to the half decade economic crisis we find ourselves in.

I almost can't wait for the aftermath discussions... "will this rally continue?", "what does this mean for the economy?", "Does this signify a new economic reality?" MSNBC, you've been handed the topics. Please keep us entertained.

Guess who's back?

Well, after a 6 year hiatus (which translates loosely and yet quite accurately to "laziness"), I'm back. I mean, it's not like this blog is going to fill up with mindless drivel by itself and let's face it... you're reading this either because you're equally cynical about the world we live in, or you've got more time than you know what to do with (getting a job/exercising/getting away from the computer would be a decent starting point for those in the latter group).

I'm going to try to update this weekly with something I read or experienced during the week that, quite frankly, either surprises or annoys the hell out of me. Why? Because in the past 6 years, the emergence of microblogging has slowly but steadily eroded our collective will to write anything exceeding 140 characters. Thanks Twitter! Microblogging undoubtedly remains a useful medium for those blogging on the go and while I won't deny its intuitiveness and subsequent mass appeal, it is somewhat frightening ridiculously frightening how much "pointless babble" goes on in the microblog universe. Hey, if there's going to be pointless babbling going on, I'm going to do my part and ensure it gets the proper verbiage it deserves.

That said, let the blogging begin.