First off, a happy Turkey Day here in the U.S. to my loyal reader. Secondly, with the long weekend this week there won’t be a Friday What-If so you’ll have to put up with my weekly drivel a little early. I’ve tried to refrain from ranting about the continuing financial crisis, there’s more than ample [...]
I just read an article this morning about the Citi bailout and how it seems that the U.S. government feels it has no bargaining chips to play with. While I won’t ruin the story for you, Citi makes a great deal to get taxpayer money and it seems that the government’s dealmaker missed the class [...]
It’s always a tragedy when someone dies needlessly, but I have to admit I always get a kick out of the folks that decide to go out in style. Case in point, someone armed with a pair of samurai swords charges two security guards (armed with guns). I don’t care if you’re Bruce-frigging-Lee, one of [...]
Still crazy after all these years. I came across a link to a story about Cheech & Chong’s new tour. It’s nice to see they’ve patched up, or at least learned to tolerate, their differences over the years. Long enough to do a new tour after 30 years, at least.
I came across a post on Reddit.com with a link to a youtube video from a science program about ants. What caught my attention on this one was that they pumped concrete into the ant colony in order to get a 3-D model of what the colony looked like. Several tons of concrete in fact.
In today’s economy with bailouts, layoffs, higher prices, foreclosures, and bank failures, it appears that people are taking notice of the situation and becoming more conservative with their money. And the restaurant industry is feeling the heat with fewer customers at their tables, and are left wondering what to do to make ends meet. Walletpop.com [...]
The media coverage of our recent election has reinforced the notion that the American media corps (less Fox News) is focused on the wrong things and perhaps have their priorities mixed up. Rather than focusing on how each candidate will help our country and its people, much of their time was spent on the clothes [...]
Now it may just be me, but lately I have been receiving offers from magazines to renew my subscription that seem unbelievable. I noticed, the closer you get to your last issue, the better the offer from the publisher. I recently let my subscription to Inc. magazine lapse because I am getting the information I [...]
I’ve been busy with work the last couple weeks and haven’t had much time to blog. And I was waiting for the post-election rhetoric to die down a bit. I wanted to blog about a couple of cool things like widows getting killed by the husband’s coffin or a house with 800 dogs in it. [...]
While I could build you a list of all the things that banks just don’t get, there is one that really gets to me – at least today. Today I had the opportunity to visit my local Washington Mutual (aka JP Morgan Chase) and the line was long. You know the kind of line, the [...]
