Too Big to Fail – Too Dumb to Succeed

It’s incredible that huge corporations like Enron, AIG, etc etc etc etc could fail so spectacularly that they need bailing out, right? On the other hand it’s very OBVIOUS why they failed – they were grossly mismanaged, must have been operating on completely erroneous economic principles, and had been encouraged to ignore all the common sense rules of operation the owner of my local noodle bar (who has not been to Harvard) practices as a matter of survival necessity. Therefore you’d be really interested in what the guy who won a Nobel Prize for Economics has to say: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a2aNOdTIAtLc . . . → Read More: Too Big to Fail – Too Dumb to Succeed

Finally I Understand the Ukelele

About six months ago my wife decided that she wanted to learn the ukulele. Don’t ask me why because I do not ask questions like that any more. At the time she also decided that this was going to be an enforced healthy family activity so I would resume playing the guitar… like it or not. I am a smart man, I decided to like it. Our son was given the choice of playing the guitar or the ukulele. To my horror he decided he wanted to play the ukulele. In the process of deciding what instrument he would . . . → Read More: Finally I Understand the Ukelele

Psychobabble Unleashed on Dogs

It’s a measure of how low our society has sunk that psychologists still roam the earth. What will it take to rid ourselves of these noxious pests – more dangerous than H1N1? After having failed utterly to decipher humans in any meaningful way it seems now it is time for our dogs to be afraid… be very afraid. What’s even more scary is that they get paid to roam and babble. Here is a classic upchuck of psychobabble, this time on the subject of dogs – you’d think they’d at least get something right. Or not. Excerpt: ‘Inside of . . . → Read More: Psychobabble Unleashed on Dogs