Author James The Wanderer From Wikipedia, “The Peter Principle is the principle that "in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."...
Probability and Percentage
Author Tony Demaio (You Fool Me Once…) Leo Durocher once said, “Baseball is a game of percentages.” Leo was wrong. What he SHOULD have said was, “Baseball...
Who Should Replace McChrystal?
Author Linda Brady Traynham After due consideration, about two seconds' worth, I have concluded that I am the best candidate to replace General McChrystal, and before...
Lack
Author James The Wanderer Nicholas Nassim Taleb (The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, several other great books) has generated several good ideas, among which are: ( 1...
Wood You?
Author David W Franklin Recently I met a lady who like I, labors to gather, cut and split fire wood for supplemental heat in the winter...
Something’s Changed
Author Linda Brady Traynham Analysis ranges from what to do when your chemistry professor hands you a beaker with instructions to tell him what is in...
Skin In The Game
Author Tony DeMaio I have been reading about the number of folks that are walking away from “underwater” mortgages where they owe more than the house...
We’re All Racists Now
Author Linda Brady Traynham Well, actually, we were all always racists because we can't help it, back to the Big Bang. It is probable that...
Civil Rights, Civil Wrongs, and Not So Civil People
Author Tony DeMaio During the initial Civil Rights movement, I was a young tad. I went to an integrated school and didn’t think much about my...