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a bittersweet year best: finding my dad after a long search and visiting with him for the first time in 15 years and getting my brother & father together for the first time in 36 years and by all that facilitating my father's recent visit with his grandchildren for the very first time in their...

how interesting. someone who doesn't trust a guy who isn't being shifty.

i thought i read somewhere that shiller, or maybe it was roubini, predicts housing down 37% nationwide. ah, when it was down only 37%, i remember that, the good ol' days.

i don't know wines and hardly ever drink them as they make me sleepy but years ago i used to enjoy a zinfandel from sutter home. very cheap, supermarket stuff that sounds like a condominium developer but i thought it was pretty good. certainly better than the boonesfarm i guzzled in youth.

of her many incredibly crooned numbers, eartha kitt sang one of my uncle's songs which he wrote during the depression, inspired by one of my uncle's sisters. it is recorded on one of her many "best of eartha kitt" albums. happens to be one of the songs i recently purchased for the digital frame...

that's some story alan. just a few weeks back, tv news ran a similar story about an extended family employed entirely by the auto industry. not to be sophomoric, but oddly to the point would be that diversification applies to all aspects of economy, from a portfolio, to a one horse town, maybe...

true enough for me as i'm happy with food and shelter. but not to the madoff victim who slashed his wrists. he was probably down to his last few million. this is a nondiscriminating poll. thanx for sharing the distinction. do you experience any loss of a sense of accomplishment in that...

in the garden late yesterday i got a little upset because i found feather remains of a bird and i was afraid that an unleashed neighborhood cat ate odo. but just now i was delighted to find that odo lives. (possibly he doesn't eat just insects?) i'm still amazed how he blends into the garden...

my judgmental response conformed precisely to the op's direct request for "judgmental feedback" (though i suspected misuse of the word judgmental--i wasn't making fun; i was just playing along) in judging the use of the variant spelling theatre instead of theater as being haughty, or, perhaps...

ladel, at least your guys are making fun of themselves. our idiots take themselves seriously.

& a distinction being that, aside from surface interaction, it doesn’t matter as much, with regard to the wellspring of morality, what your action is perceived as doing to a third person or what that person might actually do to you. (though some might argue this as more to the realm of...

you're very welcome walkin. will check through your site as well. i like econtalk's pbs-esque interviewer and how they take time to delve into a subject. don't know if anyone noticed but the've got two berstein interviews in there. anybody have other good online resources for learning about...

ok ok ok, i'm buying (just as soon as it drops another 30%)

where morality refers to correct conduct, and where the ultimately successful human experience is understanding the self, the examined life, then superior morality reflects in behavior which leads to knowing true self. behavior which hides your true self from yourself or which denies or inhibits...

you've spent years earning (working for) a living and now you've watched a good portion of your hard won earnings quickly die. you worked for 20 or 30 years or more to save and invest and then lost 10 years of good gains overnight. which caused more anxiety? which provided more satisfaction...

my x-employer now begins new employees in their matching program, automatically saving the matched amount out of employee pay. so the new employee doesn't have to take any steps to start their 401k match; instead they'd have to take steps to stop it.

thanx kyounge. answering the questions on your cited site id's odo as Short-tailed Hawk - Whatbird.com that actually looks like the other guy who comes around at the change of the season to eat a mourning dove or two. not sure that's odo though. odo doesn't have such a strong beak. just...

not a problem: spelling theater as theatre doesn't distract from the fact that it should be people who talk in theaters not people that talk in theaters. worst hey, you asked for judgmental. ps, you should have switched seats with your wife since she wouldn't have minded the texting. as...

thanx rew, sounds like i should use them. what a pain. does this mean i have to buy stamps and write checks? (just, um, checked: i've written all of 16 checks since 2005.)

i've never even driven in snow but for the flurries i had in the mountains last autumn. i couldn't imagine commuting in weather like i've been seeing on tv reports; or at least, i would trade in the stang for a bumper car. (though my bro & family are on their way to buffalo ny for skiiing so...

does it hurt credit scores to close'm? i've two i never use & just one i use all the time. of the two i don't use, one is my old credit union and one i originally got through my local bank but then that card somehow went from a generic carrier to a bank i don't use so that i could no longer...

suppose, even after working off the excess, ya still have a three year inventory of homes for sale, and say, i'm just guessing, 30-50% of that is distressed. and of course those not distressed still must compete with the lower prices so they might not be distressed but they can only command...

zillow shows sarasota from about dec 1998 to date appreciating at about 6.88% per year (and falling). during that time population increased by about 2.25% annually. population is projected to increase by about 1.54% annually over the next 10 years, a 32% decrease in the rate of population...

between 2000 & 2005 sarasota county population grew by about 2.35% per year*** between 1990 & 2000 by about 1.6% per year* between 1980 & 1990 by 3.2% per year* between 1970 & 1980 by 3.33% per year* between 1960 & 1970 by 4.6% per year* between 1950 & 1960 by 10.3% per year* between 1940 & 1950...

so much is point of view...and then there's reality. my guess is that most people would think that pretty pessimistic. but at this point, i'd be delighted if our values here came back up to having had fallen by only 37%.