egads an eccentric weird-as-fuck ill mannered gazillionaire? you jest sirraah. Except this tradition goes at least as far back as Nero. Accumulating extreme wealth is kinda up there with cat lady in the trailer park or Uncle Nutz Hoarder and his magazines. Just a manifestation of serious obsessive compulsion that has…

wait a minute. ....Rich people helping rich people so they can all become richer?  Better savor the moment - sure we’ll never see the like again...

no no no ...you should BUILD a boat.....

pfft - Pesky scientisty types....always going on about ‘extreme rain events more likely’ and ‘arctic ice will be gone’ and ‘jet stream disruption leads to both cold and hot records’ ....blah blah blah.   Its 68 in front of my AC and my roof don’t leak.  So there Libtards....  [pretty sure Elon will let me into the…

over at Locus, Doctorow penned a decent essay on Zuck’s Empire- altho the gist was mostly about social media’s societal cost- he had a nice summation of really what capitalism today is ALL about : “In corrupt systems, a few bad actors cost everyone else billions in order to bring in millions – the savings a factory…

Nuggets fans begin wave of facepalm..... 

no Prime here- don’t do many movies- maybe 4 a year plus lots of free podcasts and documentaries. Because i do lots of building/making projects I can always reach the minimum for free shipping and the shipping fees for items that won’t ship free amount to way less than a yearly membership...all the “specials” are…

what this sez ^^^ not every course needs to be immaculate magnolia graced Augusta- I for one would much rather watch these pros get slapped around in Brit and Scottish style venues than most of those 78 below par snoozers on normal PGA events.

Kap ruining yet another franchise....

altho I have some planetary conscience that says internal combustion will most likely kill this beautiful home it is also true that i spent most of my adult life as a rural construction guy- and most of that in my own business... I kept a bike as my high mileage fun alternative but in a valley that used to see 30 and…

ok- careless driving IS part of the equation . We slaughter plenty of our species as well. Also- seen an awfully lot of snake kills on dirt roads where the tracks sure look deliberate....[ on country roads I always stop and escort them off the road- you?] my only point was that it CAN be unavoidable. Rising deer…

Although speed and attention likely do make a difference there is little you can do when a deer darts from a thicket into your car- I have had that happen twice- once was a front quarter panel strike, once was rear quarter panel- both were fatal encounters. Both times I was doing under 40 mph. Both times I took the…

ummm - no. Scavengers- such as Corvids, scavenge because they have evolved scavenging ‘tool kits’ . Many. like ravens are dependent on another animal with the curved beak of , say, a hawk or eagle, to open up the kill before they can feed on more than the eyes. [But 50 mph ton and half vehicles do a good job too...]…

hmmm- I consider myself almost obscenely wealthy.... I get $600/mo SS [after they take out my medicare stuff] and my rentals net me another $1400/mo . BUT- solar powered/ heated home is paid for. Ditto the cruiser motorcycle, ditto the diesel PU. Like others , I learned to fix/repurpose and build the “things” I use-…

A] back in the dayI was regularly bumping the starter on a Lexus after it was already running- it WAS that damn quiet.

Two words: ” Bloatware”

one word: “hot mess”

old Nuggets fan: “tried to tell ya Knicks, Thunder.... “

Glad the author notes its not ALWAYS bottom line thinking. Paying off my mortgage early gave me a symbolic sense of security that no other investment success could have given. And it gave me the freedom to stretch in lots of ways that were far less tied to financial outcome: taking time to write a novel, build [and…

what if this is, in fact, just another dot com whose pyramid life has run its natural course.....?