Tailwind

May your neighbors respect you, troubles neglect you, the angels protect you, and Heaven accept you....but only when you're ready! --Irish Toast

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Who Would You Cheer For?

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I'm not sure who is more annoying, yoga posers or Facebook/iPhone lemmings. That is why I find this story so amusing: Yoga teacher fir...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Lassen Creamed Corn

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Nothing like a little Summer Solstice back country ski trip to remind one why California is the best place on earth. The Summit from Bum...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

Burning Man 2010

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Since this was my 5th trip to Blackrock City, I've had plenty of time to ponder what I like and dislike about Burning Man. I really enj...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Obama will have a Bud Lite

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In a bid to paper over his (Cambridge cops) "acted stupidly" comment, Obama has invited Professor Gates and Officer Crowley to the...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Keeping track of the TARP

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TARP COP: Get tough on banks The top cop tracking the $700 billion bailout program said Monday that he's concerned federal officials are...
Wednesday, July 08, 2009

It's like deja vu all over again

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It's great to see that Wall St. has gotten over the Great Hiccup of 2008 and it's back to business as usual: Morgan Stanley Plans to...
Tuesday, July 07, 2009

"California: come for the sun, stay for the tire fire"

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If there's ever a contest for a new state slogan, that'll be the one I will submit. Joel Kotkin: Who Killed California's Econom...
Friday, June 26, 2009

What not to name a company

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Surely there are many examples in the business world of a company living to regret the name of a product or a joint venture. The first one t...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

Manners

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If one were to make a broad observation about the youth of today, it would be hard to dispute the fact that in general they are sorely lacki...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Testing the waters

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One of my current concerns as I voiced in a previous post is that the Obama administration may try to take over the Federal Reserve by usin...
Monday, June 08, 2009

The car of the future

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A friend of mine snapped this picture while traveling through rural Indiana last week:
Thursday, June 04, 2009

It's official: Congress and the SEC are insane

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Insanity has been defined as the repetition of the same task with the expectation of a different result. If that's the case, then the SE...
Friday, May 22, 2009

Observing the weathervane

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This quote summarizes this week’s sentiment rather succinctly: "There will likely be a growing steady recognition that in trying to pr...
Friday, May 15, 2009

The elephant in the room

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Bruce Bartlett at Forbes does a good job of quantifying exactly what it would take to fully fund all of our upcoming Social Security and Med...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies

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Greenmail : Money paid by a company (or allied company or individual) to acquire its own shares of stock from a shareholder who is threateni...

Trickle up poverty

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Ed Yardeni once again nails it: The politicians in Washington, DC have an advantage over many of us: They don’t work for a living. So they h...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

It is settled: the JROTC stays

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S.F. school board to vote on JROTC A three-year battle over whether Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps belongs in San Francisco sch...
Monday, April 27, 2009

The noose tightens

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“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste — and what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you didn’t think you could do ...
Friday, April 10, 2009

The Black Hole of fiscal responsibility

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I'll withhold the niceties: anybody that thinks government is a good custodian of your current and future tax dollars is a moron. Congre...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

Congress and NASCAR

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Here's a great idea . Every member of Congress should wear a one piece uniform emblazoned with the icons of their corporate sponsors: So...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

There's that saying...

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Oh you know the one, something about pictures and what they're worth in words... Budget deficit: past, present and future (source: Wapo)...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

It wouldn't be a day...

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...without tax evaders in the news: California Congressman Calls Maryland Home to Gain Tax Credit Representative Pete Stark, the second-rank...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

The Dodd Amendment

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I do believe that the Obama administration and his congressional enablers finally have a plan in place to remove the last vestiges of faith...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

AIG's earmarks

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The latest outrage washing across the political landscape is over AIG's decision to honor a commitment to pay out $165 million in bonu...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

The wisdom of Ogden Nash

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In honor of our new socialist overlords, I though I would share a poem that was written during another era that has an increasing number of ...
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