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A headline that I would like to see:
One Trick I Learned from Other Worthless Financial Posts
"One trick I learned from other worthless financial hacks is that if I write a column with "Five Tricks I Learned" in the header some guy named Ted will…
Once again I was well ahead of my time. When I "made up facts" in high school, I was sent to detention for my efforts. If you do that now, they send you to be president.
Stay tuned. You interrupted me in contributing observations on yet another realm of totally useless bullshit. Should be posted shortly.
BTW, is "4 million" pretty close? :)
@davidrmoran- That's absolutely frightening. I don't know the specifics of the population density, dispersion or existing transportation issues in Nashville, but I can surely testify that without a good public transit network the SF Bay Area would b…
"Politifact is totally biased."
Right out of the right-wing playbook:
They can deliberately provoke a situation by providing information of dubious authenticity, but as soon as any sort of significant response is encountered one of two things hap…
June 15:
"How deliciously ironic that the poster who enjoys painting everyone who disagrees with his warped outlook as a "socialist" or "communist" is so totally duped by the real thing."
June 16:
"they play the role of victim upon the mere whiff of pushback to their claims/views, even when civilly presented."
@rforno- You've nailed it. Exactly why I've withdrawn from any commentary directly with Maurice. To respond civilly and factually req…
Classic. Right out of the right-wing playbook: they can introduce any subject they want, but they immediately try for censorship if anyone else does the same.
They can deliberately provoke a situation by providing information of dubious authenticit…
"Helps equal out the free tuition to illegals."
Care to back that up with a few facts? (That would be real facts, not the alternate type that you prefer.)
Every living first lady has condemned border separations:
• Melania Trump
• Laura Bush
• Hillary Clinton
• Michelle Obama
• Rosalynn Carter
"Every living first lady — including Melania Trump — has condemned the policy of separating immigrant famil…
@VintageFreak- Yes, pretty much same here. Never use regular salt and almost never add "light salt" to anything. Pizza about once a month (with red wine) and no soft drinks. A little lemonade on a hot day, though. Like you said, moderation in everyt…
@Sven- for stuff like that you need to go to The Economist or another similar high-quality source. And I'm afraid that even they don't get it right much of the time. As either Rono or Catch 22 (I can't remember which) liked to say: "My crystal ball …
Not having had the benefit of a college or university education I wouldn't know about an 800 SAT. But I do enjoy an ~800 credit score. Does that count?
How deliciously ironic that the poster who enjoys painting everyone who disagrees with his warped outlook as a "socialist" or "communist" is so totally duped by the real thing.
"omg, another one" Yes, it's hopeless. Know nothing, and not interested in learning. No facts, no accuracy, no history, no substance...just noise. Follow the leader... it works for him.
"And guess what? You buy it."
@Hank- and here's a recap of exactly what he bought:
The North Koreans accidentally caved in their main underground nuke test site. Being next to China, they can't test above ground. Being broke, it will take a very l…
Since I posted the opinion piece (above) which took a very dim view of the effects regarding South Korea, it's only fair to also note that the WSJ now has an article which takes exactly the opposite view. Unfortunately the WSJ is pay-only, so this l…
This should have been the real headline of the Trump-Kim summit:
“U.S. weakens its 70-year alliance with South Korea.”
"A few commentators have pointed out that the big winner of the Singapore summit was the great power that was not even there: C…
For sure the "Dumbing Down" title is completely bogus. I meant to refer to his later comment "They’d rather be doing something else, like making money or painting murals."
I'm going to give Ted a little slack on this one. Not sure that he meant that exactly and literally. I think that he was simply recognizing that trades are both necessary and potentially lucrative, and acknowledging that some would put doing what th…
@jlev- Your comment is interesting, as I imagine quite a few of us have contemplated splitting the state for one reason or another at one time or another, even if no more than as a transient mental exercise. Just curious as to your perspective- Nort…
@jlev- I'm always curious to understand why an obviously misleading comment such as Ted's is regarded as civil, when an accurate and responsive comment is not. Seems kind of one-sided.
