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  Remember that kid when you were growing up, the one who wasn’t very skilled at some game or sport? Remember that he’d invariably tell his playmates that he” didn’t really like to play that game, anyway”? It seems that a group of these kids have grown… more »

  Note: I began this post three weeks ago, so it is not quite timely. Let me understand this: Obama was taken to school by Putin, allowing the Russians to take the lead on the whole Syria crisis and thereby damaging American standing in the world. Or… more »

...Is something I still must do. It has meant I've spent the last few months deep in the swamp of a major VoIP project in New York City, passing most days conjuring up thousands of lines of command line code in Excel, dealing with recalitrant server app… more »

  In a New York Times op-ed piece last weekend, Anat R. Admati, a professor of finance and economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, added his voice to the chorus of those warning about the continuing systemic threat to the economy from the… more »

  Earlier this year, at the Sunshine Blues Festival show the Princess and I attended in Ft. Myers, Susan Tedeschi, co-leader along with husband Derek Trucks of the Tedeschi Trucks Band, told the crowd that “TTB” stood for “Terribly Talented Band”. She… more »

  Elmore Leonard passed away yesterday at the age of 87. I became acquainted with his writing in the 1980’s through his crime novels. I was intrigued by the gritty stories, quirky characters and his deft touch with dialogue. His characters spoke real l… more »