From: June 2017

Unfit and Unhinged – Trump

You only needed to watch the first two minutes of the James Comey testimony to know the truth about Trump/Comey. Colbert did the best job of the week curating the testimony and everybody should watch it: Ellen and I are headed to Europe for the rest of the month. I am looking forward to binging …

I’ll Be Buggered…

This 3 minute video is priceless: "Well I'll be buggered, there's a shark in my boat!" Terry Selwood tells us how a 200kg great white shark ended up in his fishing boat. pic.twitter.com/HabXaDezkt — ABC News (@abcnews) May 28, 2017 I’ll be buggered is correct! There are a lot of people – not just this …

The Airline Index and 9/11

Michael Batnick has this great investing post up called the ‘Satisfaction Yield‘. It would take twenty-five years before the Dow reclaimed its 1929 peak. Over that time the United States had four different Presidents and we built the Hoover Dam, the Empire State Building and the Golden Gate Bridge. The Hindenburg exploded, the F.B.I was …

Prime Movers

I love this post from Mike Maples on Alex Honnold the free-solo climber and ‘prime movers’: A free-solo climb is as extreme as you can get when it comes to mountain-climbing. -No ropes. -No nothing. -3,000 feet straight up. -You slip and fall… -You die. In my opinion, this is the greatest athletic achievement in …

Nasdaq 10,000 …Again

Yesterday I had Nasdaq 10,000 on my mind. It was probably because I had a day trip to Palo Alto, land of the sweater vest and dockers (the pants). I brought a little style to the valley with my laceless converse: Today Amazon crossed $1,000 a share and $480 billion in market capitalization. I also …