oiling...

I can build more of these, among other things...
GreenRiverWoods.etsy.com

End grain island top

Ambrosia spalted maple, 60"x 36"x 2" solid end grain. Still in progress...

cherry wine bottle rack

For those without the news

Recap of the week, funny and short.

Torture under Obama's watch

Just Despicable.

end grains

Reclaimed mahogany, cherry, hickory, oak and walnut. $85.


Birch, $40.


Solid hickory, $80.


Reclaimed ash, Brazilian cherry and mahogany accents, cherry legs. $45.

GreenRiverWoods.Etsy.Com.

A small set of reclaimed ambrosia maple blocks (and soon table) in this little gallery as well. (Update: already sold).

in a nutshell

Branko Milanovic:

The real cause of the crisis lies in huge inequalities in income distribution which generated much larger investable funds than could be profitably employed. The political problem of insufficient economic growth of the middle class was then “solved” by opening the floodgates of the cheap credit. And the opening of the credit floodgates, to placate the middle class, was needed because in a democratic system, an excessively unequal model of development cannot coexist with political stability.

–courtesy of i cite. Good to see articles reiterating stuff we learned from "The Giant Pool of Money", stuff that obviously needs to be reiterated, while simultaneously talking more directly and forcefully about income inequality as perhaps the most fundamental cause of instability. Shocking.

Reasonable sentiments also noted in the words of AWP.

Spitzer

The man should obviously replace Geithner or Summers:

David Simon on new and old media alike: "A plague on both their houses"

Hear, hear.

Huffington responds.

IT far more thoughtful, yet.

Afghanistan, Obama's Vietnam?

Disturbing questions.

Let's hope McNamara's old ethical disorder hasn't adapted to become contagious.

the dirty 12 - "owned" by banks in Congress

Even if there wasn't an exclusive Chapter 11 welfare trough for the criminally incompetent, and a global-economy-devastating pandemic of foreclosures on what used to be the American middle class, this would be just appalling:

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The online contact information for the democratic sell-out senators who deserve all the anger a spoiled and complacent country could possibly muster:

Max Baucus (Mont.),
http://baucus.senate.gov/contact/emailForm.cfm?subj=issue
Michael Bennet (Colo.),
http://bennet.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=TransitionalSiteEmailSenatorBennet
Robert Byrd (W.Va.),
http://byrd.senate.gov//contacts/index.cfm?ID=54
Byron Dorgan (N.D.),
e-mail: senator@dorgan.senate.gov
Tim Johnson (S.D.),
http://johnson.senate.gov/contact/
Mary Landrieu (La.),
http://landrieu.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
Blanche Lincoln (Ark.),
http://lincoln.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm
Ben Nelson (Neb.),
http://bennelson.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm
Mark Pryor (Ark.),
http://pryor.senate.gov/contact/
Jon Tester (Mont.),
http://tester.senate.gov/Contact/
Tom Carper (Del.),
http://carper.senate.gov/contact/
Arlen Specter (Penn, a Dem in name only),
http://specter.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=contact.contactform