Sports

As I've been so vocal and adamant against all the forms of corporate welfare (you can call it "bailouts" if you want), I've gotten one question over and over as these two real quotes from my blog comments asked: "What should we do about it?" "What are you, we, going to do about all this?" So many people write to me saying they feel that, now more than ever, they don't have a voice as ... read more

Some are bound for happiness, some are bound to glory Some are bound to live with less, who can tell your story? I was down in Dixie Land, played a silver fiddle Played it loud and then the man broke it down the middle. See the sky about to rain, broken clouds and rain. -- Neil Young A few ... read more

Old man lying by the side of the road with the lorries rolling by, Blue moon sinking from the weight of the load and the building scrape the sky, Cold wind ripping down the allay at dawn and the morning paper flies, Dead man lying by the side of the road with the daylight in his eyes. Dont let it bring you down, its only castles burning, Find someone whos turning, and you will come around. ... read more

I actually trademarked the term, "The Can't Stop the Revolution" a few years ago. And their inability to stop the revolution is the good news. Ultimately, there's no stopping the will of the people in this country and the innovation and prosperity built thereupon. Right now, there's just no easy answer, no easy solution, no easy way out of this. So many of the virtuous cycles of the recent ... read more

I'm watching Monday Night Football as I wind down my day here and that's got me thinking about perspective on how the Colts, its owners and the people like Peyton Manning who they pay millions of dollars to are ripping off the taxpayers in Indianapolis.  I mentioned this in my Big 3 on Friday and we covered this again on Happy Hour today. The Colts and their stadium are being paid for with ... read more

Oh I can't keep it in, I can't keep it in, I've gotta let it out. I've got to show the world, world's got to see, see all the love love that's in me. I said, why walk alone, why worry when it's warm over here. You've got so much to say, say what you mean, mean what you're thinking, and think anything. - Yusuf Islam, born Steven Demetre Georgiou, best known by his former stage name Cat ... read more

And then there's the pro sports subsidy scams. Yeah, let's not overlook another direct redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich in the form of tax-games, subsidizations and what not. We take billions of tax-dollars to subsidize the building of stadiums and other professional sports welfare programs. What a crock. You realize today that the Seattle Seahawks, that bedrock of the ... read more

Okay, so I stayed home tonight wanting to get some rest. And instead I've ended up insomniac-ally playing with FireFox extensions all night. There's some great blogging extensions that make it easier than ever to link blog posts to articles I'm reading as I'm reading them. But there's a problem with every single one of the extensions as I try to log in on them, of course. And after reading ... read more

Every breath you take Every move you make Every bond you break Every step you take Ill be watching you - As if you don't know that's the Police The flare up in Tibet is already worrisome and saddening, but the Dali Lama, despite the NYTimes strange insistence on hidden political motivation on his part and the similarly strange refusal to take his ... read more

When I was 25 and working at Oppenheimer, my first job on Wall Street, I saw an article about a Reebok 4-minute mile challenge. That is, if you were an amateur athlete and could break a four-minute mile, Reebok would give you a million bucks. Or maybe it was $100,000, whatever. I used to work out hours a day, every day and since I'd ended my streak of playing hoops every single day for more than ... read more