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A collection of 180 issues

Wednesday

The Shuttering I learned recently that one of my favorite bars closed in northern Michigan. My uncle owned it back in the 1980s, and it was a solid business. We were talking about it during my family's golf outing last week, and my brother, who was recently in

Wednesday

Catholic Blog Surfing Bert Ghezzi is a genuinely good guy. I've corresponded with him on a few occasions, and he even expressed willingness to "go to bat" for me on a book proposal he liked (alas, even Bert can't overcome one's dearth

Tuesday

Time Management. Or, Increasing Self-Awareness I see friends take long lunches, run personal errands during work hours, drop by their houses in the middle of the afternoon, chat with colleagues, call on the phone and talk for 30 minutes with no apparent qualms. It got me thinking: How much do

Thursday

Stocks, Food, and Diet The stock market takes its biggest one-day lost since last August. There's fear back in the air. People see more and more signs of a double dip. Link [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303657404576359003490165720.html?mod=igoogle_wsj_gadgv1&] . I don't

Monday

Happy Memorial Day. I expect a dearth of traffic today, consistent with past holiday experiences. I expect the traffic to be especially light, since the country is drying out for the first time in a week. We're expecting mostly sunny skies and our first 90-degree day. I'

Tuesday

Liars, Liars Unbelievable: Last Friday, it was reported that Greece was threatening to quit the Euro Zone and there would be an emergency meeting. The Eurogroup Chairman flat-out told the media that there would be no meeting. And now, it looks like he simply lied. Why? To preserve the euro

Wednesday

Making Land "They ain't makin' more of it." I hear that statement at least twice a year, usually when a client is buying real estate. I normally nod in sage agreement. Which has always been an ingenuous thing to do, since I agreed with the

Monday

Notes About the Conspiracy Is the United States a sham? How corrupt is DC? Does the stock market even exist as a free market bastion anymore? Whether I like it or not (I don't), those are thoughts that wake me up in the middle of the night (literally,

Wednesday

The Ruling Class You've seen cyber-lists about the horrible state of the U.S. economy. This site [http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/rich-vs-poor-14-funny-statistics-and-14-not-so-funny-statistics-about-this-economic-recovery] has taken the exercise one step further: it has juxtaposed fourteen financial facts about the Ruling Class against fourteen financial facts about the Subjected. Some of

Thursday

Gold, Yuan, Drugs Many years ago (five? ten?), I was at a law seminar. One of the presenters decided to make a funny quip by referencing a certain group of nutty people who have about as much of a grasp on reality as people who want a return to the