Slow Groove

which is the higher goal of democratic government? - to reflect the will of the people, or - to protect from the will of the people? Democra...

"If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people. But if you’re willing ...

I think the post about trying to pay off the house caused the universe to reassert its primacy. Found out the main heating/cooling unit for...

My wife and I were talking and assuming all goes well (meaning my job holds out that long - vehicles hold out - no other unexpected runs on ...

This rant by Karl Denninger is good . Karl has been on the Armegeddon watch for a long time and I just hope he's not right that everyth...

It's been a long time since I've updated my investing info on here. Early in the year I raised cash levels and have been running at...

I saw this in the paper today and it caused me to smile and at the same time I thought he was onto something... " Our government doe...

compiled from photos from the Dawn mission. The grooves running around the "equator" of the asteroid are interesting - kindof lik...

Here's a really good article from NPR about the sad state of patent law in the U.S. . Especially software patents and tech companies. ...

Here's an interesting article on a small local government buying Apple iPads to distrubute meeting documents and is doing away with pri...

I was re-reading Paul Tudor Jones' interview in Jack Schwager's book "Market Wizards" and came back across this quote whic...

So maybe this will be a boring post, maybe not. I found it interesting as I'd tried to google information on this subject before and ha...

I work in the insurance industry and a couple weeks ago the issue of this year's hurricane forecasting came up. At the time we were goi...

Hey all, played scrabble w/ wife and Dad today. I'm normally not a big board game guy, but had something pretty cool that I don't ...