Category: Culture
Black Monday 2009 | Amazon
Until about 1999, each Christmas season I would head to the local shopping mall for about 5-8 hours of hard core shopping trying to getting all my shopping done in one day. I dreaded my yearly mall trip and starting in 2000 I have done 90% of my Christmas shopping on the Internet. The UPS [...]
Category: Culture, The Economy
Cool Berlin Wall Story
David Bowie and Iggy Pop are two of my all time favorites. Recently I purchased the VH-1 Storytellers soundtrack online featuring David Bowie. VH-1 Storytellers was a short lived series in the 90′s that would feature an artist playing some of their favorite hits while also telling a story related to the song to the [...]
Category: Culture
Peter Schiff or Nostradamus?
Jon Symons on his art of money blog has a mashup of Peter Schiff videos where Schiff predicted the economic collapse close to two years ago while others laughed at his predictions of the financial market collapse. For me, the real scary stuff in the post are the more current videos where he is talking about now and where our economy is heading in the coming years. Think total economic collapse and great depression part two.
Category: The Economy
Come November 5th
I debated whether to have a political post on this site. Well I figured what the heck, no one reads this blog anyway so I can say whatever I want without offending anyone. So what to say? I figured I can’t say it better than in this Virginia political ad. It is perhaps the best [...]
Category: Culture
