Media

So, Tiger Woods will not (refuses ?) to talk to the police.  Big, hairy deal. I mean, if he was your typical hypocritical politician, like Senator Ensign or Senator Vitter, I’d say to the press, “Sic ‘em.” But, he’s just a frickin’ golfer.  He hits a little white ball and then walks after it and [...]

Can This Really Be True?

I found this article at AlterNet and to be honest, I am not at all familiar with AlterNet.  This part of the article is particularly disturbing. 50 percent of U.S. children, one out of every two children, will need to use food stamps to eat. One out of every two children in the United States [...]

What’s Really Important

There are a variety of reports, changing daily, about Tiger Woods and what might have caused his accident.  I am not going to link to any of them. On a scale of what is really important, the Woods story is a distraction. What is really important is the lack of jobs 50 million fellow citizens [...]

Universal Soldier

As the United States gets set to send more soldiers to a needless death, I offer the timeless observation of one of the great observers of the twentieth century.  She is still with us and I’m mighty glad of that.

Giving Thanks

I truly hope that all who visit here, have friends and family with whom to spend a day reflecting on what we have to be thankful for. I would like to offer a special and public thanks to the creator of Liberty Street for not only offering me a ‘voice’ but for being a friend [...]

In The Past

it took me a long time to come to a decision that the person I liked was not the person I thought they were. Maybe with age I have learned something. The inimitable Glenn Greenwood says it infinitely better than I could ever dream of saying it: Carter suggested that trying detainees for “war crimes” for [...]

This Is What

I was talking about in my last post.  I mean, ya can’t make this stuff up. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — After balking at government imposed pay restrictions, American International Group’s chief executive Robert Benmosche has officially agreed to a non-compete contract that could total $10.5 million, the company announced Tuesday. The government owns 80 frickin’ [...]

It Is Hard

to know where to begin.  I know that if you are reading this, you probably have at least some similar feelings. The disappointments are many.  After eight years of the incredible and unbelievable incompetence of the Bush administration, I really and truly believed that Obama would bring some much needed change. A new broom sweeps [...]

22 Nov 1963

I was eating lunch with Reed and Pearson at the Acey-Duecy Club at the Naval Station on Treasure Island in the middle of San Francisco Bay.  It was a Friday and I was attending an intensive and very long advanced electronics school.  On Friday mornings we would take two exams.  One was for the subject [...]

Cost-Benefit ? ?

I thoroughly understand how to do a Cost-Benefit analysis.  While in the workplace I did dozens of formal Cost-Benefit Analysis’. Literally.  And probably hundreds of them in an informal, “back of an envelope” way.  When it comes to business decisions such as do I buy a truck with these features or those features and how [...]