For those of you watching – and worrying – about the markets this morning and the past few days, like the loss of $1.5 trillion in value literally overnight (which means it really didn’t exist in the first place, it was just paper), don’t … this correction was coming, everyone knew it was coming, it … Read more
Here’s something that’s been bugging me a lot lately and it is making me really dislike some people in the journalism/online news clickable fields – this inability to move away from the spin. Take this graphic, as an example, that was Tweeted out during the Powerball fever by the Vox.com “graphics reporter.” After compiling data … Read more
It finally looks like Christmas …
Note to Jeb PAC: This isn’t how you grow your candidate from sixth place (8.3% RealClear ave.) in the polls in NH to Christie’s 11.3% fourth place position, no matter how bad a governor Christie has been. SMH…
Very interesting … something to, ahem, chew on…
Interesting data here from the Seattle Times: The incredible shrinking middle class While we all know things are harder – not economically better – the data doesn’t appear to show this. In fact, it’s showing that during the last 40 years, while the middle-class has shrunk, people have become more affluent not poor. Look at … Read more
Operation Santa Claus, the program by the retired New Hampshire state employees to provide presents for needy kids in the state, fills my heart with joy every time I participate. We did this as kids and now, I think for the last 10 to 12 years, I’ve been doing it, too. Sometimes, my kids join … Read more
Wifey found an old sketch book of mine when I was a kid. Stuck inside were two Godzilla short story extra credit projects from 1977: “Terrorism in New York” and “The Day the Earth Died.” To be a kid again…
I love … I mean, LOVE “The Walking Dead,” but, I’m sorry, it’s an adult show and should not be marketed in this way – as action figures and scenes – to children, in the toy section, along with Megablox, other things. It’s simply wrong.
My uncle took this great picture of the moon in Portsmouth on Thanksgiving. Wow.