Don’t let the title fool you, I don’t do this at any regular interval, but I thought this would be a good time to talk about the economy as a whole. That is because we’ve left 6 months behind where we thought we were on track for a stabilizing recovery. Now the picture looks less [...]

There once was a man whose name I refused to utter on this blog.  But, after a year or so of avoiding it, I caved.  So once the seal was broken, I didn’t have much of a problem talking about him anymore.  I say, know your enemy.  He’s not really my enemy, but we have [...]

But that doesn’t mean I can’t give you a couple of websites to read.  I’ve talked about Failblog before, but I haven’t shown you Failbook.  Failbook is fails on Facebook.  Also, don’t forget about Yahoo Answer Fail, a classic.  Enjoy, and try not to wet your pants laughing, not that I did or anything…. If [...]

  IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to [...]

  I’ve always thought about the days leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. I imagined John Hancock, Sam Adams, Tommy Jefferson, and Benji Franklin drinking at a pub the night before thinking two things: “we’re about to make history tomorrow” and “WTF are we doing?” But of course, history is never [...]

Just like I get a lot of ideas in my head that I never seem to make their way into a full blog post, I get lots of links that never seem to find their way into a a post of their own.  To clear out my “ideas” document I’ve decided to just let a [...]

Not since Ford went public in the 1950s has an American automaker gone to the equity markets for an initial public offering (IPO). But, on Monday, Tesla Motors did just that. I thought Tesla, which now trades on the NASDAQ exchange under the ticker: TSLA, would be a great showpiece for how IPOs work. So [...]