Fun with Medicine

I am typing this post from my dad’s hospital room, waiting for him to be carted off to the cardiac cath lab for the insertion of several stents into his cardiac arteries. (I talk like I know what the heck I’m talking about, but it’s an act. I live...

Quote/Unquote

…the only regulation that will ever work is failure… Businesses should fail, that’s the way the system was designed. Rick Santelli in an interview on King World News Two years ago, Congress had a chance to keep the economy from tanking. All they had...

Deep Thoughts from NNT

Here’s a quote from Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a new addition to my “favorite authors”: What makes us fragile is that institutions cannot have the same virtues (honor, truthfulness, courage, loyalty, tenacity, generosity ) as individuals. I have long...

Rise Fenrir, Your Time Approaches

It sates itself on the life-blood of fated men, paints red the powers’ homes with crimson gore. Black become the sun’s beams in the summers that follow, weathers all treacherous. Do you still seek to know? And what? Brothers will fight and kill each other,...

Why Greece Matters to You – the American Taxpayer

First, Bear Stearns made a bunch of stupid bets on sub-prime mortgages, and you – the American Taxpayer –  bailed them out to the tune of $29 billion in guarantees to JPMorgan, (who bought Bear Stearns only on the condition that the government assume that...
Earth Day: a Sad, Sick, Stupid Joke

Earth Day: a Sad, Sick, Stupid Joke

Love Earth, Hate People Earth Day. <sigh> What an idiotic exercise. All these well-meaning, self-loathing do-gooders running around with their hair on fire, shouting, “Save Mother Earth! Save Mother Earth!” Hah! Like she needs our help. Where I grew...