Best Case, Worst Case and Most Likely |
How does anyone make predictions for a new year after one like 2008? Imagine that last December I'd predicted a little known senator from Illinois would edge out Hillary Clinton for the Democrat...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:09:00 GMT |
On Hotness |
"I'm hot because I'm fly
You ain't because you not!
&...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:34:00 GMT |
The Week That Was |
Last week Iceland went bankrupt. It was a week when an entire country declaring bankruptcy was a fifth rate news story. The story was so far below the global financial meltdown and the pre...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:43:00 GMT |
When-and Where-You are Gaius |
Doctor Phil said it; and I believe it. Fifty percent of first marriages end up in divorce court. For second marriages it's seventy-five percent. Those are the kind of statistics that...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:45:00 GMT |
Dialog The Subtleties arent so Subtle |
I've been watching some television. Okay, I've been watching a lot of television. But it's not wasted time if you're taking note of the magic that writers of good television can do with di...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:25:00 GMT |
Recession, Economics and Dead Men Walking |
The guy on the news said the markets have suffered the worst six month period in thirty-eight years. Now that's some damning news when you think of everything lumped into that time span: 911, th...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:09:00 GMT |
Theres No Place Like . . .Where Your Stuff Is. |
I've finally come to believe that "home" is a concept. It's not a real place, necessarily. On one hand there are people who live in the house or on the farm owned by their parents and gran...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:40:00 GMT |
A Little Validation |
As human beings we have a basic, maybe primal, need to know that others have felt what we are feeling. The joys. The frustrations. The anger. That's why since primordial times ...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:44:00 GMT |
Money, Class and Living Well in Fiction |
"It is not easy for a man to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty."
Juvenal (Latin poet) 127AD
"A penny saved is a penny earned."
Benjamin Franklin 1789
"If I had a million dolla...
Posted by on Thu, 08 May 2008 18:40:00 GMT |
LIVING small |
Characters whose raison-d’etre is only to chase earth shaking causes can quickly lose their humanity. I think it’s the little things they do or care about that make them real, ...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:58:00 GMT |
