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Words form the thread upon which we string our experiences. – Aldous Huxley
Paul Tudor Jones’ Comment: Moms Don’t Have the Focus for Macro Trading Career
Outrageous! But Is He Right? Here we go again. At a symposium on large-scale trading and investment at the University of Virginia last month, the question came: why was the panel composed solely of rich, white, middle-aged men? Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones answered that in his experience, emotional distractions – such as divorce – would […]
Justin Bieber: Slipping
May 23, 2013
“If you have to say you are, you aren’t.” – Margaret Thatcher You know, I’m really not one to follow celebrity news, but once in a while a celebrity will do something so outrageous – or a series of such outrageous things – that the headlines are just unavoidable. Yes, Justin Bieber is back, and […]
But I Can Dream, Can’t I?
May 21, 2013
Lauriate Roly ponders: is all that we see and seem but a dream within a dream? By Lauriate Roly I knew it would never happen, but each time I bought a ticket, I thought about it. Even if the whole thing came about as it would in my daydreams, I knew it wasn’t possible because […]
“War on Terror” Humor: An Untapped Niche
May 20, 2013
Why is there no sitcom about bumbling terrorists and counterterrorism agents? Last Thursday, I wrote about the rather cartoonish arrest of Ryan Fogle in Moscow. To illustrate that cartoonishness, I settled on Maxwell Smart from the 1960s sitcom Get Smart, but I also ran across this image of Boris and Natasha with a big bomb […]
The Idiotic Messages We Send Our Kids About Violence
May 17, 2013
Ever notice just how wrong our authorities get things? Specifically, I have been noticing the complete, nonsensical, total disconnect of any kind of reason or consistency between “school violence” and “bullying.” We have been conditioned lately to think of “school violence” as Columbine or Sandy Hook (never mind that Adam Lanza was not a student). […]
Spy vs. Spy?
May 16, 2013
I am honestly not sure what to make of the Moscow arrest and PNG (persona non grata) removal of US Embassy employee Ryan Fogle. Fogle was arrested by the Russian FSB (successor organization to the old KGB), accused of espionage, and filmed with his supposed spy kit, which consisted of two really cheesy wigs, some […]
Joan Larsen’s Quest for the World’s Most Remote Islands: Close Calls on Sub-Antarctic Enderby
May 15, 2013
By Joan Larsen Lying between New Zealand and Antarctica, a series of rugged and remote islands sit like silent sentinels in the harshest seas on Earth, those of the Great Southern Ocean. Centuries ago, people gave up trying to live on them, surrendering them to their animal counterparts who learned to survive on them. […]
The Big… Balloon?… In the Sky
May 14, 2013
Lauriate Roly recalls a strange phenomenon. By Lauriate Roly In 1952 I lived in the Town of Mount Royal, a sub-division of Montreal. I had just left home at about 8 o’clock in the morning for my drive to work. It was a lovely clear warm day. I drove a convertible in those days and […]
May 24, 2013
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