Other than a weekend playing “Keep Up with the Power Equipment” (which we will get to in a moment) I spent a couple of hours Sunday morning working on “The Luck Problem.” Remember last week’s column? “Math in the Afterlife“? That symbol (or sigil) I brought out of the dream realms has been bothering me. … Read More
Few readers will remember a year and a half back when I was on a national radio show (“Coast”) and said the doom porn crowd would be wrong. Then last winter I said again that we have several targets ahead in 2017 where the markets COULD hit their all time highs.We’re pleased as punch, once … Read More
Oh, sure, it’s not popular to “tell it like it is” anymore. Why, the right to tell America how to think is reserved for the hyper-opinionated minions of the corporate media and their left-wing parroting shills. Still, in a few places, like here in the Outback of East Texas, there is still an ability to … Read More
Living out here as we do – several miles from the nearest place where a useable cell phone signal can be found – it’s easy for us to see what people in the Big Cities and living in the Yellow Journals Media Bubble (YJMB) call “society” that there IS a little bit that goes on … Read More
War Among the Business Models: It has been just short of a year since our June 11, 2016 report on the www.peoplenomics.com website titled “Bezos and Bentonville: Barbarians at the Mall” but the battle is raging in background and actually explains a lot of today’s headlines. One of our core axioms is that “Everything’s a … Read More
Oh, sure it is. I can, in fact, come up with probably a half dozen (or more) survival situations where knowing how to drop a tree perfectly and precisely where you want it is nothing short of high art. Need an emergency shelter with little effort? Fall a tree, limb slightly, tarp it and live … Read More
Since the odds of a North Korean first-use are slowly rising over time, we present a rather longish discussion this morning of the factors you will want to be considering (pre-planning) now since at the last minute you’ll be busy. So we run through the whole McGillah – including the shared Life Plans, the general … Read More
Hot off the press release: NEW YORK, MAY 30, 2017 – S&P Dow Jones Indices today released the latest results for the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices. Data released today for March 2017 shows that home prices continued their rise across the country over the last 12 months. YEAR-OVER-YEAR … Read More
A lot of people live two lives: One in the waking state, the other on the dream side of sleep. This is one of the most interesting tales I have ever “brought over” from the “other side.” Don’t ask me exactly where the “other side” is; I couldn’t tell you. But it’s a place I … Read More
Two eggs scrambled with 1 tablespoon of heavy cream. Two slices of toast One pork chop with gravy. (continues) Two cups of fresh-perked coffee. Followed by a resumption of my horizontal pillow-studies. Other than the press getting worked up over Jared Kushner (perhaps, allegedly) trying to set up a back-channel for Trump to the Russians, … Read More
Last week, after reading about the plans for the Cotton Mouth Creek Golf Course, and hearing the latest nonsensical YJ (yellow journo) pap about sports star this and standings that, Elaine presented herself in my office nearly in tears. “Why do we pay people for this crap?” She was deeply distraught….but that’s often when her … Read More
The first of a two-part series today on some of the real problems of seniors (including us) as we look at what’s ahead. We will consider inflation data from the Depression era and run some numbers on differently times exit strategies which may give you some useful ideas. First, though, a few short headlines and … Read More
Ahead of a major holiday, there are only two questions that really matter. The first is “Do I cut the lawn before the Holiday, or after the Holiday?” Do it before and the place will look strack for guests. Do it after and you won’t spend valuable pre-holiday time when you could be shopping for … Read More