Tag: Osama bin Laden

On the Occasion of September the 11th, 2006: A Reflection on Power

Five years on, all of us remember back. For me it is the sound of the sadly-NPR-departed Bob Edwards wafting up through my pillow speaker (a piece of technology that has vastly improved my marriage) saying in a very calm voice and not, apparently, as part of a breaking-in-to-tell-you-some-breaking-news sort […]

Sales 101

I wake up to George Bush giving a press conference. I have never wanted to have normal blog faire in here — no bald political statements in here — so watch me pull a financial health topic out of my hat/out of my politics. * * * The impetus for […]

NiNY strategies

A friend writes: I have been told that there will come a timethat our monetary system will fall and that theonly thing that will be useful to have would begold that is in my possession. I am also told itcould happen in my lifetime (and that that iswhy the US […]