Welcome to another of our “mini episodes” during one of our off weeks. With the Presidential Election this week, Jim figured that since we had planned to do this topic in one of our shows and were rapidly running out of time, we would do an off-week mini episode – turned out when Jim was done recording it was not so mini.
Jim had to fly solo on this one with the exception of the cigar and libation segment at the end which had been previously recorded.
Jim starts by talking about some of the positive things this past week in the stock market, touches on the Windows 7 news released this week, discusses some suggestions for dealing with the Police when stopped, and briefly editorilizes on the latest crop of Mac switcher ads.
In the politics segment, Jim talks about Ted Steven’s conviction and decision to continue to pursue re-election in spite of it and shares a story about a local Boston politician who is in a similar situation. Jim also discusses a story about how most major newspapers have endorsed one candidate or the other and wonders if this is really an appropriate thing for a news organziation to be doing.
In the second segment, Jim presents some final thoughts that you might want to consider as you go to the election booth this coming week. Jim thinks that he stayed relatively non-partisan, but you can be the judge of that.
Finally, we sample a gimmick cigar and libation pairing for this week.
