If anyone notices any extremely unnerved waterfowl in the Northern suburbs this week, that was me. I did that. (NO! Not that.) I went to Rosh hashanah Services with my parents yesterday, and knowing that the synagogue was right by the Chattahoochee River Outdoor Recreation Area, that it was going to be great weather, and that I would be spending ( Read more... )

If I win the Big Game lottery 16,667 times at the current total of $42 million, I can pay for the bailout and have about $70 grand pretax leftover for myself. I'm willing if everyone else is.

So as Director of Operations, I just sent this out to all our employees ( Read more... )

Anyone remember that SNL sketch from the 80's with Phil Hartman as a dottering old Ronald Reagan who between photo ops would secretly turn out to be a brilliant Macchiavellian strategist speaking fluent German and funnelling guns to the contras through Switzerland and Israel....Here's a fragmentWell, what if that's the whole reason Sarah Palin hasn ( Read more... )

If Saturday Night Live is anywhere up to snuff, there's two sketches I'd better see this week ( Read more... )

I was reading about the school shootings in Finland and it doesn't surprise me in the least. When Aileen and I were there (yes for the World Karaoke Championships) it was amazing to see an entire nation of clinically depressed alcoholics. Everybody we met after 10 minutes of conversation seemed to be angling for us to take them out of their ( Read more... )

Okay all my friends who are so much into the Pirates and what not - I have turned a few of you on to the wonder that is Gideon DeFoe's "The Pirates in an Adventure With Scientist" or "The Pirates in an Adventure with Ahab" or even "The Pirates in an Adventure with Communists!". Well I am pleased to say that I have just received, direct from the UK ( Read more... )

or should I say ME! ME!


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For the second or third time in my life, the science of Mikeynomics is vindicated. I remember in the late 80's when the market went through a "correction" and all the people I went to college with who'd beenw orking their asses off for jobs in ther financial sector or who had gone for professional careers but invested heavily in the stock market, ( Read more... )

Watching McCain and Obama reps on MacNeill Lehrer report arguing about School Vouchers/Choice. As a cantankerous, childless old fart,I suddenly realize I'm being left out of the discussion. People are aguing about whether Parents have the right to basically take their tax money out of the system to send their kids to the school of their choice. ( Read more... )