Linda Brady Traynham
How to Take Out a Refinery
Saturday, February 26th, 2011Author Linda Brady Traynham Where do we find information we can trust? Most of us got over “If you read it in Time it must be true” fifty years ago, and we know the MSM isn’t to be trusted, but more and more I am finding absolute balderdash on the ‘net, too. Consider this quote: [...]
Pharoah for Egyptian President
Saturday, February 19th, 2011Author Linda Brady Traynham Are you as bored with Egypt–or at least “Islamofascists”–as I am? I always start with the political news, and it seemed people were asking exceptionally silly questions today. “Are ‘innovative and imaginative’ financial policies” a good idea? Obviously not. “What are we to do with Jihadists who keep saying ‘We love [...]
Freedom vs. Protection
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011Author Linda Brady Traynham I read today that the USA has been downgrade to “mostly free” status in terms of friendliness to entrepreneurs, which can only make me wonder about the standards used for that determination. It appears to many of us that if you aren’t big enough or political enough to afford a lobbyist [...]
Being Self Sufficient
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011Author Linda Brady Traynham Ahhh, global warming and the joys of being a homeowner in 2011. New York has 20″ of snow and Chicago even more, while much of the USA is due to have sub-zero temperatures, and our day has been consumed by our tenants squawling that they had no water due to an [...]
Never Confuse the Unlikely With the Impossible
Sunday, January 16th, 2011Author Linda Brady Traynham I use happenings around the ranch to illustrate principles of management and investment, but I’m struggling to find a good lesson in my day. I know it is an evil omen when I find a printout on my keyboard, and this one revealed that the ranch had been on TV, at [...]
Did YOU Know That I’m Not Superwoman?
Friday, December 17th, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham Well…I didn’t. I had been soldiering on gallantly for weeks, feeling worse with every day, when my daughter came for Thanksgiving and coaxed me into going back to Dallas with her for three days Sunday. How shall I put this? My beautiful, highly intelligent, successful daughter is both an immovable object [...]
Two Different Worlds
Monday, November 1st, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham We’re going to talk about alternate universes. I want mine back because yours is regressing to savagery and superstitution entirely too rapidly. On MY home world bliss for a small child is having someone else drop a thermometer and playing with the glob of mercury that breaks up into perfect little [...]
Rain, Rein, Reign
Friday, October 22nd, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham Is it illegal yet to be homonymophobic? Maybe I’m just a semantophile. What has this to do with economics? That those who write poorly tend to make less money than those who have mastered the arts of the compound sentence, syntax, and diction. It appears to have become a lost art [...]
Think Like A Madman
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham “Think Like a Madman” ™ an exciting, fact-based game of global stratgy! Choose your madman, marshall your armies and fact cards, and invade your neighbor! “Think Like a Madman!” ™ involves no luck. Players rely on ruthlessness, actual data, strategy, current events, and iron nerve to conquer old enemies or destroy [...]
Am I Vain?
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham The title question arose when I saw an analysis of how frequently Obama says “I, me, my, or mine,” and I wondered if you thought I am. My answer is “No, and I’m not egocentric, either. I just talk about myself a lot!” The reason is that between us dear Charles [...]