“Tiger Woods going to Arizona for sex addiction rehab?”

I love this sort of headline.  You will notice ONLY rich men seem to worry about “sex addiction.”  One also notes, there are never any rich women going.

This is so bogus.  I like[d] sex.  I would have  done it with lots of women, but I never had enough money to be “attractive.”  I’m 70, and would become 25 in the eyes of 20ish something girls if I had $10 million to throw away on bimbos.  Money is ALWAYS  attractive to women.

If  a guy is famous [& even better rich], there will be no end of young and no so young women willing to approach them on their knees.

This is, of course, merely an observation as I’ve never been either famous enough or rich enough to be so lucky as to have a possible “sex addiction.”

I just received a cheque covering the warranty work done in Canada and later partially undone in the States.  Most happy.

I shall be sorry to see Saturn go.  Part of the reason Saturn failed was the way GM screwed them over.

If Chevy is smart, but they won’t be, they would pick up the Saturn Sky as a Corvette Light for their line up.  it is such a neat looking car.

An interesting article.   Seems a little bit like manufacturing the results one needs.  Tsk, tsk!

The scandal we see and the scandal we don’t.   Why it matters

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/30/crugate_analysis/

When does a Liberal become a Conservative?  When he or she gets mugged.

When does a Conservative become a Liberal?  When he or she loses their job & health insurance.

I’m looking forward to moderating the panel on the Solar Updraft Tower at LOSCON on the weekend after Thanksgiving.  I have 2 PhDs & a novelist on the panel.  No fuel [well, there is the sun]/no waste, just energy.  Sounds good to me.

Looking for seed money for a 15 billion dollar long term project. 

I recently was notified by BoA that the charge on unpaid balance was not somewhere about 27 to 29+%.   Isn’t this higher than the Mafia used to charge?  –  All the credit card issuers have jacked up their rates just before the new law takes effect.  –  Hey, the banks need to make money for their stockholders.  All the regular depositors have been laid off and don’t deposit anymore.

I think, more folk might do well to read this article.

If it’s on the shelves, it’s off the streets byPeter Moskos. [Peter Moskos is an assistant professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the author of "Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District."]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/23/AR2009102303457.html

Illegality drives up the cost of the illegal substance.  –  What would the actual cost, with a 6% markup to provide a  suitableprofit, of the more common “illegal” substance such as MJ, cocaine, & heroine?  — Please note, I’m NOT saying they should be legal, just what would the comparative prices be?

Now how would this effect the crime lords?  If an addict, one would have to register, of course, could buy his or her drug of choice from a legal source at realistic prices, what would happen to the economies of drug producing countries.  [Of course, California would now run a surplus as the value of MJ grown in the state is in the billions of dollars.

It would be interesting to see an economic evaluation of this.  maybe money is being allocated in the wrong areas.

“Limits on exec pay cause worries of brain drain!  Will top bosses at bailed-out companies leave as their compensation is cut?”  –  MSNBC.com

Maybe the answer should be: Good, get rid of them.  All they did was take money and run the companies into the ground.  Maybe some new blood will get the companies moving again.

IMHO too many “executives” are vastly overpaid for the work they do.  I really don’t believe, they are worth the pay.  I remember reading a rumor that JP Morgan, that pillar of support for the common man, feeling that the ratio of 20 to 1 between the top salary and the lowest full time employee’s salary, should be enough.  Today, 200 to 1 or higher is more like it.

However, one must realize, these executives are of such a better class of people than ordinary persons that they should be rewarded for just being better than everyone else.  Just ask them.

The Japanese want to redefine its relationship with the US.  Sounds good to me.  Actually, I wonder, if we need to really be in the Far East at all.  –  Since all the countries there seem to do is gripe about the Yanks being there, why not leave them to their own devices.  –  Japan is apparently pushing the idea of an East Asian Community [Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere ?], a sort of Asian version of the European Union, with China at its core.  Go for it.  –  Yes, let us pack up our toys and take them home.  –  There is no need for the US to be the world’s policeman.  Let them all go to hell in their own hand basket.