Thrown It All Away

Thrown It All Away

Mama, just killed a man. Put my gun up to his head, pulled my trigger. Now he’s dead. Mama, life has just begun. But now I’ve gone and thrown it all away. Throw it all away. The great ones do, and they leave us richer because they don’t hold...
Dick Led Me to Yeats

Dick Led Me to Yeats

Or perhaps it would make more sense to say that VALIS led me to The Second Coming, and who knows where I will go from there? (Yeah, that headline might possibly be designed to troll for hits.) I discovered this poem – The Second Coming – by W.B. Yeats...
Church, State and Net Neutrality

Church, State and Net Neutrality

When the US Constitution was written and approved in 1789, the Christian churches exercised a power over the culture that was at least equal – if not superior to – the power of the central government. For that reason, the culture in which the Constitution...

Bear-Stearns Plus 6 Years

We’re coming up on the six year anniversary of the Bear-Stearns sale to JPMorgan. That was the event that motivated me to dig into the realities of the financial world. I’m preparing a bigger anniversary post for March 16th, (the anniversary of the actual...