Author Archives: ChrisA

Brett Steenbarger claims trading teaches many life lessons. Trading is a crucible of life: it distills, in a matter of minutes, the basic human challenge: the need to judge, plan, and seek values under conditions of risk and uncertainty. In … Continue reading →

The article says California is on the brink of a global warming breakthrough. Made me think they had some great new technology or something. Not to worry, they are simply passing a law. I suppose “a breakthrough”, at least to … Continue reading →

For you non-financial types, Bill Gross of PIMCO investments is considered “the Bond King”. Dan Fuss from Loomis Sales has easily beaten Gross at his own game over the last 15 years. To be successful and perform as Gross and … Continue reading →

The city of Chicago passed the new super minimum wage law. The results, according the the Wall Street Journal (paid registration required) are… Target was the first big chain to react, recently canceling plans to open a new superstore in … Continue reading →

Apparently creating a Horse Co-op is a solution to the problem. County land use director Graham Billingsly seems quite pleased a solution has been found… Billingsley said the boarders may have brainstormed a viable loophole. “As far as I know, … Continue reading →

From today’s letter to the editor… Are land sales open to everyone? Doesn’t it strike anyone as being a little questionable when Boulder County open space sells 32 acres of sacred open space to a private company to develop as … Continue reading →

Thanks to Ann Althouse, via Instapundit, I found this posting on boys going to a private NY City school, who spend 9 hours a day memorizing the Koran. The reward is (apparently)… The young boys are taught that if they … Continue reading →

The Boulder citizenry, in an effort to alleviate their guilty, SUV driving conscience, are getting ready to tax themselves to follow the Kyoto protocol. Vote this November. Fortunately I live in the County, but I’m sure they won’t be far … Continue reading →

Thailand Plans 1 Free Laptop Per Child: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance Oh THIS is really stupid. There’s a difference between learning knowledge and using a computer. Technology can be a tool or a crutch. Without proper knowledge, it’s a … Continue reading →

Ed Quillen of the Denver Post whines about his voting experience. First he complains that in Chaffee County (Salida area) a Democrat rarely wins… The 5th has never elected a Democrat in its 35 years of existence, and this one-party … Continue reading →

There’s a reporter, Kevin Corke that works for ABC, who seems to have trouble understanding why the Bush administration maintained the secrecy of the recent British (and US) investigation of the terrorists that wanted to blow up multiple international flights … Continue reading →

Hillary Hall sent Linda Salas packing. The non-official tally 8395 to 5824. The Daily Camera captures the reason Salas was sent home so convincingly… The tally showed citizens’ dissatisfaction with the county’s recentelections and current voting process, Hall said. No … Continue reading →

Linda is the present Boulder County Clerk and Recorder and has done a pathetic job. Here’s an experience from an early voter in the letters to the editor section of today’s Boulder Daily Camera (free registration required)…. Having responded to … Continue reading →

John Dvorak takes cell phone users to task along with the cell phones themselves, not to mention the service. In other words, he rants against the whole cell phone universe. I especially enjoy this little snippet… Then there are the … Continue reading →

Looks like Tropical Storm Chris is turning into a dud. From the NHC web site… Due to the inability of the Air Force reconnaissance aircraft to find any tropical storm strength winds, Chris was finally been downgraded to a tropical … Continue reading →

I was involved in this once from a low ranking managerial position. When they got where they were discussing my peers, etc I ask to be excused. My present employer apparently also is implementing rankings and ratings. After the last … Continue reading →

Make sure and go to the video link. Enjoy.

Well it looks like Fidel may get a present courtesy of Tropical Storm Chris. The present 3-day cone shows a possibility of the path hitting Cuba. More details at the National Huricane Center website.

This is apparently Wafa Sultan, an Arab-American psychologist from Los Angeles. Enjoy… http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=null.