Posts in: October, 2016
Happy Trafalgar Day!
Well, yes, since you ask, it is Trafalgar Day, and how better to celebrate it than with one of Maurice Gibb’s greatest moments? The pièce de résistance of the group’s “Sad Beatles” Era, the best John Lennon song John Lennon never wrote, and one of my fave rave Bee
Happy Syddleversary!
- John
- 15th Oct 2016
- General
- 5 Comments
Two years and six weeks ago, we lost the love of our lives, an eighteen-year-old, withered-legged cancer survivor (three years!) chihuahua-terrier mix formally known as Mr. President, but at home Hot Diggity Dog, or just plain Diggita.
Taxes, Healthcare and Culture – Scandinavia and the World
- John
- 14th Oct 2016
- Uncategorized
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Webcomic: I wish you well, have a good life, please don’t write
Source: Taxes, Healthcare and Culture – Scandinavia and the World
Pretty much nails it.
And the source of this week’s post titles is….
And, despite not being a betting man, I’m all too willing to wager that I’ve just written the first stock market commentary piece named for a snippet of a song by Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine. Sadly overdue, too.
Popular, Inc. (BPOP-$38.47) No stress, I PROMESA you!
So you end up following things you don’t entirely expect, and one of those, at the beginning of this year, was the biggest bank in Puerto Rico, Popular Inc. (BPOP). Having had some exposure to the overall situation in the commonwealth by my positions in some bond insurers, which are
I didn’t watch. There was baseball.
New And/Or Improved: Now Followable! Woo!
- John
- 14th Oct 2016
- General
- 14 Comments
OK, so I think I figured this out, at least in a modest sort of way, thanks to someone claiming to be one Steve Rosenberger. At the bottom of the comments section, there should now be check boxes for following new posts and comments on an existing post.
Burn! Nobel Literature Committee Trolls America Again By Choosing American
Well, it’s been said for decades that those wacky Swedes who, between pounding the akvavit at crayfish parties while bopping in a mature but ideologically pure way to Abba impersonators, take time to look down their noses at America and Americans, either from the typical academic ivory-tower view of US
September 2016: The Good, The Bad, The Average, and Unique*
- John
- 12th Oct 2016
- Monthly Letters
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So here’s where we really need to step up the hope that I’m a more gifted stock picker than meteorologist, or at least less motivated by wishful thinking. I wrote back at the beginning of August in a letter I was fortunate enough not to publish here (because there was