The market hasn't been feeling so well lately. Maybe it's the European crisis or the not so great news on jobs or the bad housing numbers or the gushing BP oil, or the brutal summer heat. It was yet another bad day with the Dow off 145 points or 1.4%. What the market needs is — Continue reading ยป
Apple to $45?
According to this article, citing a previously unknown investment/research company, BAM investor, Apple could fall to as low as $45/share within a few months based on their technical analysis. Something tells me BAM investor needed a little publicity so they just dumped an outrageous claim on the wires and it received its due double-take. But — Continue reading ยป
Sympathy for BP
Is it just me or does the BP boss, Tony Hayward, has one of those faces you feel sorry for? I know, no compassion for BP, but watching the man squirm before the congressional hearing today, I almost felt bad for him. Ok, enough sympathy. Now let's get that Gulf gusher plugged, shall we? — Continue reading ยป
Friend BP on YouTube
Just happened to see this ad on YouTube. Don't get it. I wasn't BP's friend before, why would I want to be their friend now? What's next, friending Bin Laden and Kim Jong-il? — Continue reading ยป
Pine Mountain, Ridgefield, CT
Hard to believe that I've had a jewel of a hike within a walking distance of my house (where I've lived for year) and I hadn't been to the top of it until a only few of weeks ago. This is a part of a parcel of land that my hometown, Ridgefield, CT, took from — Continue reading ยป
Pelican in BP Oil
If MSNBC was trying to evoke feelings of sympathy and anger in its viewers today, it really came through with the picture of this defenseless bird covered in rust-colored BP crude oil. For me it sums up how reckless and callous oil companies are and how ridiculous the "drill baby drill" people sounded. You figure — Continue reading ยป