Monthly Archives: March 2010

CNN’s ratings continue to plummet.

This time it’s Robert Moffat, a former rising star at IBM. A strange case: the man was reported to be on track for the highest positions, the secrets he passed on netted him no gain and he didn’t trade on … Continue reading →

Putin has spent years brutally trying to suppress it, the Chechens respond in kind and on and on it goes. Not only does the author hold out little hope for a resolution, she points out that the 2014 Olympics are … Continue reading →

WSJ: Grasshopper invasion looks likely in nation’s heartland this summer.

The economic illiteracy of our citizenry continues unabated.

(Original) ask $1.295 million. Sold: $975,000. Assessment. $860,000. Almost everything that’s selling these days is in the $1.5 million range and below.

  Assessment: $785,000. Final asking price: $775,000. result: contract.  On the other hand, there are lots of new listings today, including one that is asking $1 million more than was paid for it in 2004 because – well just because, damn it! … Continue reading →

I received this message from a Riverside reader. Anyone who could help out, let me know and I’ll put you in contact. I heard a story last week about a local man and I have been trying to think of … Continue reading →

So Australia’s mining giant, Rio-Tinto, refuses to do a deal with China last summer. China responds by jailing four Chinese Rio-Tinto employees and last week, after nine months in the cozy, comfortable confines of a Chinese prison, they all plead … Continue reading →

Daddy-o, Having recently passed through Reno amidst the throngs of traveling tea baggers, I recommend you attend one of their more rural rallies before you toss in your favor with that lot.  We’re talking neo-nazis, the bloody-sign waving pro-lifers, and … Continue reading →

Neighbor/friend/internet guru Andrew Bein sends along this interesting article (and it was his son Warren Bein who rescued my kayak – thank you, Warren!)

Mairead O’Sullivan ( or close to that, anyhow – I have real difficulty spelling Jewish names) represented the buyers who bought 18 Bowman Drive (King Merritt) Friday for $1.410 million. Not a bad price at all, courtesy of the foreclosing bank. This … Continue reading →

I’m going with a butterflied leg of lamb, barbecued, but for the lamb haters in the extended family, I’ll also cook a ham. Cook’s Illustrated gives top rating to Cook’s Spiral Hams – specifically, the bone – in “Honey Ham”  ( … Continue reading →

Last week’s storm redistributed creek neighbors’ belongings up and down the waterway. Someone (Andy Bein – you?) found and retrieved my kayak, and similarly, brother Gideon fished out this Adirondack chair and placed it on our seawall, for its owner … Continue reading →

Good deeds before Passover – accepted, rejected, it’s the human story here, condensed. I myself have been recently blessed by my pal Joel Kaye’s mitzvah, and am determined to pass that on. So happy passover to all of us: Jew, … Continue reading →

Krazy Kat sends along this WSJ article on mortgage rate re-sets that indicates that it’s less of a problem than has been feared. That’s because  so many sub-prime variable borrowers have already defaulted, as well as the fact that those … Continue reading →

This one from Denmark. Those of us in Connecticut who can still buy our own health insurance rather than ObummerKare will be gratified to remember that Connecticut requires insurers to pay for this procedure – as a male, I would … Continue reading →

Does this look like dozens?