That was Thomas More in the first incarnation. The movie, play and life described him as a man of conscience. He was consumed — well beheaded actually — in going against the good political comprise of the day. He was lucky in that the original sentence was hang, drawn and quartered. Not that the outcome would have changed. Read more…
They aren’t bearing them but getting them. And they can’t even do that with a modicum of grace. Politicians of various stripe have their horse in this race to insolvency. The EU is exhibiting paranoia harking back to The Hundred Year War. From it inception it has sought consensus between national interest which have never shown past trust. It has mixed strong economies with weak. That’s taking steel and mixing in tin to come up with a bastard pot metal. Read more…
OK, that won’t go on my tombstone. But, I feel I’ve been upbeat about things. These are difficult times. It is hard to be an optimist but I think I’ve at least tried. Certainly I’ve come closer than the host of reporters that populate the local news. Read more…
This was inspired by friend Wolfie and I tip my hat. Our view differ and still he stops by. Gotta respect that. Rhetoric comes at us from all sides these days. Wolfie putting up with mine is the act of a gentlemen. Read more…
It was even awarded estate status. That seems antiquated. It a knock that journalist embrace along with high-minded views of the profession that avoid the human nature of the estate. But, it can also do just what is says it can. Read more…
My senator is Dan Coates. Dan is a retread that took his war chest and ran to a Washington lobbying firm when competition showed up last time. This time he won in a very fragmented primary. WTG Dan. I emailed him about poker and politics. He wrote back using snail mail — nicely frank instead of stamped. Another WTG for Dan. Clueless as ever. Read more…
Like Yogi said, “It is Déjà vu all over again.” We Midwesterners aren’t noted for our prescience. But, if you shove it in our face we finally get a clue. That is especially true when it has major impact in our lives and well being. Over a fair part of my lifetime, I watched something play out. It was the rise and fall of a driving industry — specifically steel production. Read more…
I view a fair amount of financial data. I don’t talk about most of it. It often has the same Libertarian bent that I like. That’s hardly mainstream and I insult the view of enough folks without linking to those views too. Read more…
We’ve all manage to be annoyed by how support can go with them asking us personal detail after personal detail. The reason at the online poker sites was they needed to protect our money so that it’d be available to us. What a reasonable thing we all said. And aren’t we all grateful for that. Read more…
Consolidation can bring benefit is scale. Consolidation can run horizontal or vertical. Vertically, the concern is competition. Horizontally, you are building a camel. That’s the old story about what a horse looks like when built by committee. With either there are about as many ways to get it wrong as get it right. Read more…
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