Silence is Golden

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Friday, June 12, 2009 | 8:01 AM
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I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

— Unknown

For the last few weeks I have been intensely focused on the launch of the web site for Rizers, my new company. I haven’t had much to add to the daily quote file. Stay tuned for the official Rizers’ announcement.

Bailouts and Begging

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Saturday, May 30, 2009 | 8:09 AM
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It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

— Anatole France


Klipstein’s Third Law of General Engineering

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Friday, May 29, 2009 | 8:00 AM
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Dimensions will always be expressed in the least usable term. Velocity, for example, will be expressed in furlongs per fortnight.

— Applied Murphology


Running the Country III

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Thursday, May 28, 2009 | 8:00 AM
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Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.

— H. L. Menken


Running the Country II

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | 8:00 AM
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If I wished to put a curse on a nation, I would invoke the gods to decree that it be governed by those who consider themselves to be the only true patriots in it.

— Sydney J. Harris


Running the Country

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Tuesday, May 26, 2009 | 8:00 AM
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Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

— George Burns


Discovery

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Monday, May 25, 2009 | 8:00 AM
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Doubt is the father of discovery.

— Galileo

Galileo paid a heavy price for his doubt. It is inspiring to know that he held to its efficacy.


Learning Life’s Lessons

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Sunday, May 24, 2009 | 8:00 AM
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There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.

— Søren Kierkegaard


There is Nothing Worse Than Nothing

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Saturday, May 23, 2009 | 6:00 PM
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Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.

— Richard Bach


The Death of Ponzi Schemes

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Friday, May 22, 2009 | 8:00 AM
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So Social Security will be broke in seven years. First Bernie Madoff, now this. It’s like Ponzi schemes don’t even work anymore.

- Bill Muse, Top 5 Rumination


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