A business associate of mine used to say, "money can’t buy happiness, but it can make the misery more palatable." Here are a group of studies that say the answer is complex –Money-Happiness Link Is Complex, Study Says – AOL News There is still another twist to the money-happiness story. Even though people who make … Read more
What do the turkeys know that we don’t know? Is it like rats getting off a sinking ship? Wild Turkeys Try to Hop Train Out of N.J. – AOL News
Here are two fine op eds from the WSJ deputy editor, Dan Henninger. He writes a column every Friday. The first is on Reaganomics and the second on the so-called Bush Doctrine. Optimism Pays Off OpinionJournal – Wonder Land … 25 years later and with the post-Reagan Republican Party in tatters over a confused political … Read more
As per my previous posts, I went to Manhattan to see the lymphoma guru Dr. Zelenetz two days ago. He had all the results of the bone marrow biopsy done four weeks ago. The results are that I have some bone marrow abnormalities – specifically a hypocellular condition. Evidently about 25% of bone marrow should … Read more
Here are a few pictures. Last year we were with my brother Phil and his family (wife, three kids, two dogs and Grandma) but today had a quiet day with just the four of us and Grandma. Brigid did all of the cooking and carving! Post main course horsing around Tim took these at the … Read more
Tomorrow afternoon I have an appointment in New York with the lymphoma Guru, Dr. Zelenetz. All the results are in from my bone marrow biopsy, so perhaps they’ll be an answer to why my white blood cell count has been so stubbornly low. I’d also like to know about my seemingly chronic cough, which got … Read more
This from my friend Thea MaGinnis:
Charlie Rangel is a long-serving member of the House of Representatives – his district is in Harlem. He will be chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee (dealing with finances). He is a major league blowhard. Rangel was on Face the Nation this weekend, where he resurrected his idea to re-establish the draft. Here’s … Read more
All right. I have to admit that I haven’t read any murder mysteries in a few decades. I think I read a few Agatha Christie’s quite a while ago, and enjoyed them, but that’s about it. So why would I read a murder mystery by a new author? Well duh, because I know the author! … Read more
Unless you are interested in economics, you probably never heard of Milton Friedman, who died a few days ago at the age of 94. He was a guy who combined genius with common sense. If not the most influential American economist of the last half of the 20th century, certainly in the top two or … Read more