At times he
demonstrated a gift for numbers. One morning, for example, he multiplied all
the zeros in his cheerios at a glance.
To make numbers less
abstract, present federal budget numbers as "per household" and
calories as "hours to walk off."
Even after losing 5M
jobs his 1st year (worst since Great Depression), Obama's job loss total is ½M
less than Bush thru first 34 months.
Personal ad I'd like
to see - Dog needs driver: finally caught a car.
"Group
rink:" when a group of people all simultaneously thinks it is their phone
that's ringing.
Matt 6:32 has 1st
emoticon? "... after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly
Father knoweth that ye have need
Catapults seem like an
overlooked solution for short-distance commutes.
Technically the
Chargers are not yet eliminated from the playoffs. Just as technically I'm not
yet eliminated from the GOP nomination.
RT @sacca Today
started well before yesterday.
S&P may downgrade
Euro Zone - including Germany. This, the same ratings agency that assured us
subprime mortgages were safe.
Postal service could
make billions by making service easier. Why not just bill like phone companies
- end of month based on usage, letters and packages picked up at your door w/o
postage?
Pujols offered $220M
by Marlins. Assuming same performance next 10 yrs as last, that's more than
half a million per HR or $100k per hit.
Wouldn't the most
practical personalized ring simply be a voice saying,"Yes, Ron. This is
YOUR phone ringing."
What if we're in a new
economy? My "Simple Answer to Job Creation" Op-Ed is in this
morning's Union-Tribunehttp://bit.ly/vsh1cA
So today the European
Union decided to fine countries in financial trouble. Akin to making bankrupt
people loan money to themselves?
Got carded tonight
trying to buy Jr. Mints.
In the future, all
work will be automated but people will take games so seriously that they'll get
degrees in them.
Could have sworn I
just saw kids openly celebrating Christmas. Now I'm beginning wonder if Rick
Perry has gotten anything else wrong.
Candidates only
pretend to strain against time limits on debate responses. Much easier to
defend inane ideas for only 1 min.
His comedy sounded
less like ad lib than ad libido.
Mitt asks Newt to
return millions made lobbying. Newt asks Mitt to return millions made
destroying jobs. A new, very personal tax plan.
Have no idea how I'll
ever explain to my grandchildren why our generation paid so much attention to
Donald Trump.
It's like a
2-dimensional Rubik's cube - can't figure out how to make this secret Santa
program work here in the home office.
The on-spot poll
analyst Nate Silver @fivethirtyeight says there are still FIVE plausible winnners in
next month's Iowa caucus.
Iraq withdrawal after
4,802 coalition casualties (4,484 US), 113,728 Iraqi civilian deaths, and
$823.2 billion.
I suddenly don't care
that Ron Paul's economic plan was just like the one that inspired Dickens. I
love this guy.
Political debates
would be infinitely more fascinating if your opponent got to choose one
rebuttal before which you had to suck helium.
We will get better
politicians when we get better citizens.
What about turning the
White House into national museum and moving president into "Green"
House designed for latest in sustainability?
Speaking of
fascinating: Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, was so fascinated by LSD
that he took it intravenously as he was dying.
Kim Jong-il was
apparently very. Ill that is.
RT @GarryShandling I
played college basketball at North Carolina. Ok, North Korea. But, I was a
starter.
Does anyone have data
about the turnover within "the top 1%" in income? Wonder if it's
closer to 10% or 90% who qualify just once due to one-time events like selling
a business.
It was so much calmer
around the house now that she'd sent her husband away to boarding office.
Hope Obama saved 1
wish for the economy. Bin Laden, Gaddafi & Kim Jong Il dead & no GOP
candidate can hold a lead for more than a month.
Vaclav Havel, "
words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government .. words can
prove mightier than 10 military divisions”
The more airtime for
country music in a metropolitan area, the higher are suicide rates. http://bit.ly/sDcWqR Causation or correlation?
Doppler-ganger effect:
growing sense of foreboding that an approaching person may be your double, a
sense that recedes after they pass.
Kim Jong Il once shot
a 38 for 18 holes of golf. And, presumably, substances like heroin and
hallucinogenics. http://bit.ly/sj1ERr
I've decided to begin
an aggressive campaign of revisionist personal history.
#NewYearsResolutionsReconsidered - become the Michael Jackson of Polka.
Virginia Republican
Party just ensured "outsider" status to everyone but Romney and Paul
by denying everyone else room on the ballot. http://reut.rs/uvWJvC
No. I don't miss the
seasons.
Good to see that Drew
Brees has finally recovered from the pain of being traded from the San Diego
Chargers.(Oh, and congrats on breaking single season passing yards
record.)
British dogs watch TV
50 minutes a day [per Harpers]. From this we can conclude that they're
obviously uninterested in plot resolution.
So excited about 2012.
It includes a leap year, Olympics, an election & the end of Mayan
Civilization. And that's just what's scheduled.
RT @alanwebber "I never predict. I look out the window
and see what's visible but not yet seen." Peter Drucker
You read it here
first: by end of 2012, unemployment will be under 7.5%. (Assumes 2.5+ million
jobs created, the avg from '60 to '99.)
File under political / social laws: it's easier to distort
reality than change it.
Holiday dinners are
like amateur talk radio. Without screeners. Or predictable political
orientation. Or the option to hang up.
The presidential
cabinet needs a jester whose job is to mock them about their limits and to
dangle before them the null hypothesis.
Relieved to know that
I still have a couple of days before I have to start procrastinating in my
resolve to be a better person.
I'm accepting year end
donations for my new charity, "Dictators without Borders."
I'm doing "Old
Year's Resolutions" this year. One day of radical transformation might
actually be plausible.
S&P 500 rose 8%,
then dropped 19%, then rose 14% to finish 2011 EXACTLY where it started: 1257. That
Family Circus kid whose walks were punctuated with so many circuitous tangets has
become a day trader?
No need for life
extension if we could work out technology for pausing time so that time didn't
advance any faster than we actually used it.
I may have reached the
age that I should begin making new year's resignations: things about myself to
which I simply resign myself for 2012.
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