by Ty Davison | Mar 23, 2009 | Essays
I find that I’ve grown increasing intolerant of fundamentalist religion. I simply have no time for people (*cough* -Mike Huckabee- *cough*) who turn off their brains to the reality of the world. This realization about myself has been disturbing on several...
by Ty Davison | Mar 23, 2009 | News & Commentary
In short, go ahead–as long as you picked them and they didn’t pick you. Bruce Schneier on The Kindness of Strangers: When I was growing up, children were commonly taught: “don’t talk to strangers.” Strangers might be bad, we were told, so...
by Ty Davison | Mar 17, 2009 | News & Commentary
AIG’s clearly excessive bonuses have, I’m afraid, thrown into stark relief the cluelessness of the Obama administration’s economic endeavors. I say this as an Obama supporter and with the understanding that the bailout process began under the...
by Ty Davison | Mar 2, 2009 | News & Commentary
The conventional wisdom on investing is that dips in the market provide excellent buying opportunities. This is, then, a particularly unconventional time. My list of “winners” right now consists of Piedmont Natural Gas (PNY-NYSE) and Fidelity Low-Priced...
by Ty Davison | Mar 2, 2009 | News & Commentary
News that the CIA destroyed 92 interrogation tapes should hardly prove surprising to anyone who’s paid even an iota of attention to what the Bush-Cheney administration did. While we’re left to ponder why the tapes were destroyed if, as the Bush...
