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Worth the time.
To watch this video. Conan O’Brien gave the commencement address at Dartmouth this year. It is a great speech-the last 4 minutes really spoke to me. Take the time to watch it. If you don’t have...
View ArticleRIP Clarence Clemons
This is really sad. Any male of a certain age-who tells you he never drove his car fast with this song blaring out of the radio at about 90db-is lying. Clarence Clemons was the “power sax” player in...
View ArticleThe real criticism that should be leveled at the media.
Was explained very cogently yesterday by Jon Stewart, and ironically it was explained in the place where news goes to die-the Fox Noise Machine. If you haven’t seen this interview between Chris...
View ArticleCrunch Time
It is crunch time for a bunch of reasons I cannot go into right now. Mostly related to my @#$%^& Six Sigma course. ( Which blows with a capital “B”). But-it has been brought to my attention that...
View ArticleSelf created problems
James Fallows has a great post up concerning Libya-and how Obama has no one to blame but himself for his troubles with Congress: This was a problem foreseeable from the very start* — more than three...
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My one and only comment on the gay marriage bill in New York.
A whole new group of lawyers is studying hard to be able to do your divorces…………
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What, me worry?
Every thing is a new opportunity. That’s the current fiction I keep telling myself. Next week, I will figure out a new one to tell myself. Working on a short term unique and interesting thing to...
View ArticleAcross the pond
Greetings from Frankfurt Germany. I am transiting through here on my way back to points east. What am I doing here, you ask? Going here to work for a while-at least for the short term, while I work,...
View ArticleBack again
Greetings from sunny Bucharest! The city seems to have changed very little in a year. Got in late due to Lufthansa leaving Frankfurt late. By the time I got to the hotel I was exhausted. Slept for a...
View ArticleUnder the weather.
Sorry for the lack of posting. For the last four days-if I haven’t been at work-dragging my ass around for eight hours-I’ve been in bed or forcing myself to eat. Finally ran up the white flag and found...
View ArticleIf only this would happen to Fox News.
Here in Europe, the news has been full of how evil the spawn of Rupert Murdoch is: James Murdoch, the chairman of News International, which owns the newspaper, announced that the final edition would be...
View ArticleOn the mend
Amazing what 10+hours of sleep will do for you. I woke up today feeling better-but still went to the Dr today. I was actually going with trepidation-especially if they decided to do some test. But he...
View ArticleDisenfranchised
Watching Bloomberg today has been a bit eye opening. First of all they are talking about the immediate sell-off that occurred when the jobs numbers are announced. Then they had a rash of politicans on,...
View ArticleThe will not to believe……
Sorry, its been a while since posting. Its hard to type when you are curled up in the fetal position. Today was the first day I felt semi-normal in four days. I’v either been working, working on my...
View ArticleAnd yet-somehow-I am the one that is wrong.
This post is for Phib’s chattering class. One of the most bracing things about going to a blog where hard core wingnuttery prevails-is having to defend common sense. It’s hard-because unlike what they...
View ArticleSlowly going insane
The Nobel Prize winner every conservative loves to hate ( I mean besides the President of the United States) asks the question that should be on every reasonable person’s mind: A number of commentators...
View ArticleA new word
Foxification-(adj) the process through which formerly respected news outlets are transformed into mediocre propaganda machines for Rupert Murdoch and his gang of cronies. Joe Nocera has a great...
View ArticleThe phony war.
It seems the spoiled children just can’t get enough attention. A group of House GOP freshmen will appear at the White House tomorrow morning with a letter demanding the president present a written...
View ArticleFinally done
I am finally done with my Six Sigma Course. Thanks be to God! Word to the wise-if you decided to pursue a Black Belt course-be sure to allocate a decent amount of time and do not let your self get...
View ArticleWin one for the Gipper.
Ronald Reagan was a lot smarter than most of the current GOP Congressmen. The single most important question facing us tonight is: Do we reduce deficits and interest rates by raising revenue from those...
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