for two hours i have been lamenting and grieving as i read opinions and commentary from around the world, more like eulogies mourning the end of an era. yesterday, amidst a small pond (not a sea) of white kings of corporate power, their minions, and countless other hopeful but bitter people, an angry child raised his fist to the world. not in so ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/us/politics/with-no-warning-house-republicans- ( Read more... )

How much longer before you realize you're a boiling frog? The CIA is complaining that a right-wing fascist has been put into office by a foreign power who rigged the election ( Read more... )

Are you the type that has a running entrepreneur voice going in your head with ideas that you could be dictating to your assistant standing next to you with a clipboard, taking down those ideas and turning them into reality ( Read more... )

after meeting Jo from Won Small Bag last night, i had a wonderful dream ( Read more... )

i have been very very surprised at the length of life on my favorite pair of denim dockers, had since i was 19 years old at asu. they have been in regular rotation for *that* many years (regular for me meaning every 2 weeks or so ( Read more... )

my work world seems lost in a torrent of email. i receive between 200 and 300 emails per day, many with pressing requests or demands for my attention. and that's before I get to the stuff _I_ want (or really need) to work on to move my goals along ( Read more... )

Netflix -- as a member of 7 years you are about to lose me as a customer. I spent hours rating thousands of movies in your catalogue to help you recommend hundreds of movies I'd never seen. It was great. It changed the paradigm and I entered a universe formerly reserved for dedicated hollywood cinema buffs. But that's all passed now. Your streaming ( Read more... )

It's gotta be one of the worst impositions on a guest by his host. I've arrived at your house. When you open the front door, along with your smile and welcome your dogs enthusiastically run up barking, then jump up to paw me, barking and otherwise making trying to knock me to the ground. I then look at you with pursed lips and wider eyes, maybe ( Read more... )

i can't help but stop and make a brief note for the chronology that AIG posted a 4th quarter loss of 61.7 BILLION dollars today. The US govt immediately announced it would give them another 30 billion dollars to try to prevent a run on the banks that AIG insures across the globe ( Read more... )