I might have mentioned in an earlier post that I quit smoking about a month ago. I must thank Leo Babauta, his blog ZenHabits.net, and his ebook, Zen to Done, for giving me the motivation and confidence to quit. I have quit in the past. I went almost 4 years between 1998 and 2002, so… [Read more…]
December 30, 2008
The silliness of companies knows no bounds. The latest act of corporate stupidity comes from the computer maker Dell. In its attempt to become the "greenest technology company on the planet," Dell made much of achieving some farcically theoretical "carbon-neutral" status. But, like everything associated with AGW, there’s really no so thing. WSJ points out… [Read more…]
December 30, 2008
I bought “Outliers” the day it hit the bookstores for one reason: 1. Malcolm Gladwell is the best researcher-writer alive today. I declared the book the most important in a generation. People made fun of me. Well, Thomas Sowell comes close to echoing my reaction: This book is an outstanding achievement in itself, and its… [Read more…]
December 30, 2008
In a just world where all men are created with equal rights, Bernie Madoff would be a hero. More than any other private sector figure, Bernie Madoff perfectly embodies the new American ideal. What Madoff Did Bernie Madoff admitted to investigators that he created an enormous Ponzi–or pyramid–scheme. He promised investors very high returns. He… [Read more…]
December 29, 2008
Sometimes decades start early; sometimes they start late. The 1960s started with JFK’s assassination–until then, they were a lot like the 50s except with a young president whose economic policies were to the right of his Republican predecessor’s. The 1970s culturally started with Woodstock in 1969. As Hunter S. Thompson pointed out in Fear and… [Read more…]
December 28, 2008
Several weeks ago, I posted about Leo Babauta’s Zen to Done method for Getting Things Done. I apologize for not keeping up my blogging on my progress. But one habit at a time. Habit One: Capturing Everything More than a month later, I can proudly say I’ve mastered the first step in the program. I… [Read more…]
December 28, 2008
I just finished “The Power of Less” and its companion ebook, “Thriving on Less.” I hope everyone–and I mean everyone–reads these books before the end of January. http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=hennesssview-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=1401309704&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr Why are these books so important? Because life changed in 2008. The commitments we’d made as individuals, families, communities, nations, and the world received a margin call.… [Read more…]
December 28, 2008
After a 2 year hiatus from annual predictions, here’s what I see happening in the precarious Year of our Lord Two-thousand nine: The Dow: The Dow trades within a range of 1,000 points with a daily average closing of 8,500. GDP and Economy: By July, everyone pretty much calls the situation "Great Depression II." Unemployment,… [Read more…]
December 28, 2008
Israel’s assault on Hamas terrorists in Gaza continued for a second day. As if reading from a script, the UN Security Council called for an immediate stop to Israel’s self-defense. As the air strikes continued, Israel has moved more troops and tanks to the border, possibly in preparation for an incursion into the area… [Read more…]
December 27, 2008
Hey, folks, I haven’t read the whole thing. But in the second paragraph we seem to find the answer to whole global warming problem: ignore it. First, all over the world, temperatures have been dropping in a way wholly unpredicted by all those computer models which have been used as the main drivers of the… [Read more…]
December 27, 2008
The increased urgency to legislate or judicially impose new, draconian burdens on society to “save the planet” is not your imagination. Neither is it a response to increasingly rising temperatures. Temperatures have been falling for 8 years now, and have not risen in more than 10. The reason the AGW alarmists need to impose… [Read more…]
December 31, 2008
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