I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
Obama may already be getting tested
November 7, 2008
One wonders if Joe Biden’s apparent gaffe — his statement that Obama, as president, would be “tested” within his first 6 months in office — might just have been prophetic (or at least prescient) after all.
The cheering hadn’t even died down after Barack Hussein Obama announced his victory in the American presidential election when the Russian prime minister, Dmitri Medvedev, announced his government’s intention to deploy short range ballistic missiles along the border between Russia and Poland, to “neutralize if necessary the antiballistic missile system in Europe.”
Meanwhile, at home, the stock market plunged on the very eve of Obama’s election. By almost 500 points.
And yes, all this is happening on the watch of the Bush presidency during its final months. I’ll grant that. But equally, it won’t be Bush et. al. who have to deal with the ramifications of these things; it’ll be up to Obama to decide whether to stand up to the Russian bear, or to concede on missile defence. It’ll be up to Obama to decide how to pull the economy out of a recession.
And if he fails in either capacity, the optics on the world stage will be awful.
