I seem to recall that it wasn't too long ago that companies were using unrealistic stock market forecasts to artificially inflate their pension plans results, and therefore earnings. GE, I seem to recall was one of the worse violators. How much of this "crisis" is caused by those faulty forecasts vs. by the current crappy market?

I was going to host it at a new domain, and just have this live at the root, probably beer.goats.com or something. But the more I thought about it, the more good beer sites there already were, and therefore there was no reason for me to start YA-one, so here it is.

I also really wanted to have it up and at least pseudo-running before school starts on the 28. Partly this is because I'll have less time at that point, and partly this is just because I want to have somewhere to bitch and moan about school once it had started. On the plus side, it's my last semester there.

Luckily, instead of suffering through that, Lauren and I finally made it to see Gangs of New York this weekend. Its a fun movie, but as most people have said: while the story is relatively mediocre, the visuals are cool. Via imdb, I came across this article which goes into the faulty history. Its a shame about some of this stuff, because real life in NYC at that point was pretty wild without the embellishments.