"Frist on June 13 requested the sale of all of his remaining stock in HCA, which was held in blind trusts, his spokeswoman Amy Call said. By July 8, the shares held for himself, his wife, and children were sold by trustees, she added ( Read more... )

MidgetsForMoses:    what happened?
Prezzwilly:              got drunk with ben storch, dan maguire and liz, went to phi delt with danny in pajamas, nobody at phi delt (except you, which was cool), went to alpha delt, NOBODY at alpha delt (except luke, which was cool), called Annelisa, told to go to frisbee, went to frisbee, no annelisa, no nadine, ( Read more... )

So I'm reading Adam Smith, and I'm sure that my initial reaction is the standard, boring old reaction that every little liberal kid has when he actually gets around to reading Adam Smith for the first time, but still: it's so upbeat! I was expecting much more of a dog-eat-dog, Hobbesy-Nietschey kind of a deal; it's much more Augustiney-Humey- ( Read more... )

I don't understand something economic a friend was explaining to me the other day. He said that because of Katrina there's going to be a recession, and because there's going to be a recession they'll have to stop raising interest rates because people will need loans - and then he said it was a good thing he'd bought his house already, before all ( Read more... )

James Lewis Kraft, born in 1874 on a farm near Ontario, was the second of 11 children brought up with the religious teachings of his Mennonite parents. At the age of 18, he took a job at Ferguson's grocery store in Fort Erie, and later invested in a cheese company in Buffalo. He went to Chicago, Illinois, to look after the company branch in that ( Read more... )

I have lovely lovely vikadins now, but two fewer wisdom teeth and stitches - a good trade I think . . .

Work's almost over. I finished War and Peace. Opened an IRA. Signed up for class. I chose life, you know man?

oh dear . . .

. . . which doesn't mean I don't agree with the opinion expressed in the article I quoted; just that you have to admit it's way out of left field and very partisan to come up with a comparison like that on the bottom of page 2.

"Don't send a frat boy to do a man's job." - a smart man.

From an article titled Hurricane Katrina May Cost 400,000 Jobs:

" Some congressional estimates of the total federal spending that may be needed for Hurricane Katrina hover around $150 billion.

In contrast, about $300 billion has been approved so far for the Iraq war."

What the hell does that have to do with it?

why must you come out with the ipod nano mere weeks after i buy my shuffle?

if anyone's interested in an ipod shuffle, btw . . .

1 gig. $75+shipping (that's $50 off the store price, i think). 3 weeks old.

that's probably all i can say without violating the no-commercial-use-of-your-livejournal clause which i'm sure exists somewhere . . .