Saturday, January 25, 2014

Weekend Pimpology

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I know you've all been waiting with bated breath for the compendium of 2013 posts, Lucky '13 , to hit the Kindle Book store, and it...
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Risk / Reward

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The meritocracy strikes again: JPMorgan Chase, after a year marred by scandal and stiff regulatory penalties, has decided to award its ch...
Monday, January 20, 2014

The Evil of Banality

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Easily one of the most disturbing docs I've seen in a long time. A brutal reminder of the absurd, mindless cruelty that lives in peopl...

Rising Tides, Sinking Boats

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It's virtually impossible to imagine anyone being surprised by the report that 85 individuals now possess as much as half of humanity. ...
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Sunday, January 19, 2014

NFL Championship Game Predictions

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Busy weekend, so I didn't have time to check with any of the stat sites I normally rely on for close analysis of these two games. Also,...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Can't Win Them All

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After eight years in a coma, the world's leading living dead man, Ariel Sharon, finally shuffled off this mortal coil . Stranger perhap...
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Sunday, January 12, 2014

Self-Awareness

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Looks like ol' Team B Gates has decided to cash in his chips with the expected level of subtlety and acuity: I was put off by the w...

Free Download

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Here's your assignment, Hammerheads -- go grab my new mini-book, Baker's Dozen , free for the next 72 hours. Give it a quick read, d...

Irregulation

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"Democracy is the theory that the people know what they want, and deserve to get it, good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken "Life ...
Saturday, January 11, 2014

Health Care, Housekeeping, Cyber-panhandling, Notes and Errata

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Here's something fun:  for my first paycheck this year, I got a nice surprise -- every two weeks now, I get about a hundred bucks more ...

In Other News

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Random observation from checking out my stats dashboard:  there have been more pageviews here with the keywords "arnold schwarzenegger...

NFL Divisional Playoff Predictions

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New Orleans (+8) at Seattle:   As close to a dead lock as you'll find this weekend, this replay of the Week 13 matchup will probably no...
Friday, January 10, 2014

Bridge(t) to Nowhere

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Let's go ahead and stipulate that Chris Christie has demonstrated multiple times that he is probably not temperamentally suited for the...

Diet of Worms

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They flutter behind you, your possible pasts , right? Case in point:  one Dennis "The Worm" Rodman. He could have gone into coach...
Sunday, January 05, 2014

Heightening the Contradictions

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Let's cut right to it -- Arizona deserves Steven Seagal for a governor, just like California deserved Schwarzenegger. Stoking a secon...
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Some Folks Is Even Whiter Than Me: The Romneying

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In which we are reminded yet again that only Democrats apologize, that no matter who they fuck or who they fuck over, Republicans, conserv...
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Saturday, January 04, 2014

NFL Wild Card Predictions

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Have not bothered to write any football stuff this season yet, as my team, the hapless Oakland Raiders, have been mostly unwatchable and ut...
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Monday, December 23, 2013

Don't Really Give a Duck

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Couple of final thoughts on the stupid Duck Dynasty thing, and then I'm gonna let it go. This episode is moderately interesting to me,...
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Sunday, December 22, 2013

Stranger Than Fiction

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Folks of a certain age will recall Reagan's apocryphal Cadillac-driving "welfare queen." Turns out, not only did she actually...
Saturday, December 21, 2013

Head Count and Upcoming Books

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Couple of quick housekeeping things: Please do me a small favor, and leave a quick comment, even if it's anonymously, even if it'...
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