a hundred dollar bills, look at you! look at you!

I think I ought to speak to a financial adviser.
“Professor,” you ask in a robust chorus. “Don’t you have a degree in economics from a prestigious university?” I do; thank you for reminding me. But that doesn’t make me qualified to invest wisely. I know I’ve used this metaphor in the [...]

first of all I want to thank my connect

I can’t give you investment advice, but I can tell you what things mean.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 8990.96 yesterday. The last time it fell that low (prior to this month, of course) was June 2003. If the DJI means anything as an economic barometer, it means that the housing bubble [...]

I’m as ill as the convict that kills for phone time

An update on my various plans for the year:
Fifty Books: I passed the halfway mark on my fifty books in a year schedule in late May. If I keep my current pace I can knock out another 17 by the middle of December, which would make one calendar year.
Investment: I went with Sharebuilder after [...]

the way you love me is frightening

On Friday, I brought Marie up to speed on the joy of Road House. “Do places like this exist in the real world?” she asked. “Yes,” I told her.
I tried to access Vanguard’s website on Saturday, but discovered that:
You need a separate account for retirement planning and for individual investing. I can [...]

a man in my shoes runs the light

Vivid dreams of marriage and work last night. If it weren’t a Friday I’d be worried.
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Went out to lunch with a client on Wednesday and consumed my month’s quota of cheese. Tequenos and queso a la plancha as appetizers; chorizo quesadilla for the entree. I felt irregularly massed for the [...]

president gas is up for president

Time to talk politics.
First, hitting up the Opposition Party, Radley Balko has a few questions for Barack Obama:
In your autobiography, you admit to using marijuana and cocaine in high school and college. Yet you largely support the federal drug war — a change from several years ago when you said you’d be open to decriminalizing [...]

if I had a million dollars

A random sampling of The Joy of Tech tells me it’s not very funny, but this comic specifically made me laugh aloud:

(Also: sorry for getting a Barenaked Ladies song stuck in your head. I don’t normally forgive that behavior in others, and I understand if you don’t forgive me)

wind it up

Question: when did Gwen Stefani start to reliably produce the worst music ever heard? For many years “Hollaback Girl” held the title of World’s Worst Song. Annoyingly vapid lyrics, even for pop music, an oddly dissonant sample and no particular melody. And now “Wind It Up,” also by Gwen Stefani, has displaced [...]