Archive for November, 2009

Author Tony DeMaio
One Monday a few years ago, I was chatting with my cellmate (we shared a small office). He said that he had nothing to do the previous day, so he turned on a football game. He was watching with mild interest and was somewhat pleased that the underdog was ahead and [...]

Author Linda Brady Traynham
I always loathed fire drills in school. I saw no point in practicing perfectly simple escape plans when we could be learning instead–something that really dates me. My deceased husband, John, a highly decorated combat veteran and well-known mountain climb leader, was wont to say that he didn’t have to [...]

Author Tony DeMaio
Once upon a time in a land far far away, there was a small village. Life in the village was not hard, but it was not easy either.
The villagers worked hard in their fields to grow food for themselves and their cow, which supplied them with milk. Each year, they [...]

Author Linda Brady Traynham
The on-going saga is so completely politically correct and nonsensical that the Whiskey Redan rings with indignant eruptions of “That cannot possibly be true!” And that is putting it very politely.
Once upon a time, like yesterday, there was a vast military post 87 miles from where I am sitting. (The [...]

Author Tony De Maio
Once upon a time in a land far far away, there was a small community. One day, the administrator of the hospital retired and moved away. The town looked for a new administrator and finally found one working for the Veteran’s Administration. John was well recommended by his superiors, the [...]

Author Linda Brady Traynham
Whatever it is in Texas that creates “magic bullets” has struck again. According to reports, Major Nigal Malik Hassan, a psychiatrist, killed 12 people and wounded 31–unless no one is telling us about “friendly fire,”–with two pistols, “one of them a semiautomatic,” according to AOL.
Most of America shivers in delicious horror [...]

Author: Tex Norton
How many of you have had a real gut check on one or more of your trades? If you don’t know what I’m asking, you’re a newbie.
My experience came in the early 1960s. I’d already been an active investor for over 15 years. As a mechanical engineer, graphs and charts appealed to me. [...]