Archive for April, 2011

|| Tony DeMaio || Folks, As most of you know, I have a bit of doubt about the economic (and political) future of this country. I have suggested “solutions” or “precautions” ranging from hiding in the hills of Montana, emigrating to another country, buying foreign stocks, buying foreign currency, buying commodities/precious metals, opening a foreign [...]

|| Mike Rough || Pay no attention to Bernanke at the press conference. Look! behold the bastard wonder beget by the unholy union of Adobe Photoshop and blatant incompetence! A birth certificate sure to inflame the populace. In short if the dog’s a waggin’ don’t bother naggin about the man behind the curtain. And so [...]

|| Tex Norton || Suppose there were a way to relatively quickly replace all 435 members of the US House of Representatives at our next national election in 2012? Wouldn’t this be of interest to you? For far too long, we’ve complained about politics as usual. We claim we want to get back to our [...]

|| Steve Foste || Many of my customers ask me daily, how is business, my comment, a little confused, the numbers are good, business is ok, but something in missing, it just doesn’t strike me as being sustainable. Honestly we are busy, but again we are not busy. In the past it was daily balls [...]

Linda Brady Traynham | I really wanted to call this one “The Trebuchet and Kinetic Energy,” but I wasn’t certain even real fans would have opened a thing like that, although that IS where we’re going to start. A tray-boo-SHAY is a superior form of catapult which does not involve whacking off long, thick golden [...]

|| Tony DeMaio || Many years ago, I was employed in a major state teacher credentialing department. One day, an assemblyman telephoned the department and said, “There are too many incompetent teachers teaching our children.” What could we say?? We said, “Yes, sir. I agree.” THAT sort of took him by surprise. He said, “What [...]

Linda Brady Traynham We all know where that phrase comes from in my circles, but considering the deplorable state of American “education,” it was a jibe thrown at idiots having trouble with their new-fangled auty-mobiles or causing problems. I’m prepared for a reversal in public sentiment and a revival of that phrase becauses getting a [...]

Tony DeMaio Dear Mark, I don’t know your age or background with respect to California Education, so if I am beating a dead horse, just ignore my letter. Most of my letters to the university have been ignored anyway, so I’m used to it. It was my understanding that the “Master Plan for Higher Education” [...]