Of course if you could speak the language, you would find that they are quite pleasant; I've had swell times there over the years---in the South, in the Loire Valley, and in Paris.  A trip two years ago showed a remarkable change in the way hotel guests were treated.  In Nimes we got free laundry done, an entra breakfa...more

Lack of empathy, save for profound tragedies, has been on a steady increase because of "me" generation. Many young people think life is all about "me." I've seen it grow.  The most common place to see it is in the classroom.

All these numbers are in today's inflationary dollars.  Hurricane Carol in 1954 was the costliest hurricane in history at that time; in today's money, that amounts to 27 billion.    It was no picnic living through it..

Green energy kills bird life; fossil energy helps to destroy the ozone layer, increases CO2, and probably a number of other things. Maybe we should just hang on until the end when we all go together, and perhaps it will come more quickly than we think.  The best years are probably behind us anyway.

They were NOT at Dartmouth College; they were at the UMass-Dartmouth campus.  Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

What a load of baloney!!!! The list is comprised of a number of generalizations, and most English majors today know little, if anything at all, about the rules of grammar, including the spelling rules. All one need do is to look at a job application, and it is clear that the applicant may know a good deal about some li...more

I wonder how many negative commenters are in the market.  And if you are not, why all the negative comments?  After all, if the market is going to crash, why be in it in the first, or last, place?

I locked at his current stock picks and am glad not to own any of them, except one (CAT), but I've had that for years, so it does not count.  Why would I put my money into his picks when my own are doing just fine.  Is this man positive about anything?

A week or so ago, Jubak was panning the market; now he is giving us some stocks for the long term.  Let's make a decision, one way or the other.  If you want people to tweak portfolios, then lay out a strategy.  I have a good "poker hand" and am waiting for some sort of trend, but I do not see anything yet except for s...more