Category Archives: money

Not Quiet Goes The Quitter

April 12, 2012 – 12:28 pm

Fox commentator Bill O’Reilly wrote the obituary for Rick Santorum’s campaign for the GOP candidate for president. “Nobody gave Santorum much of a shot last summer. His polling at about three percent but pretty much on his own, he convinced the voters of Iowa to support him. He did it by old-fashioned “meet the folks” [...]

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ONE DEGREE OF SEPARATION By Peter Nolan Smith

April 4, 2012 – 5:13 pm

John Guare in his play SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION contended that everyone in the world was connected to everyone in the world by six people. Sometimes even less. My sister-in-law had worked at the CIA for George Bush, whose father met Hitler, so I’m connected to Der Fuhrer by four degrees of separation. The distance [...]

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The Cost Of War

April 4, 2012 – 10:35 am

Last week Steven Harper’s Conservative government in Canada announced the rise of the national retirement age from 65 to 67. Several days later the Canadian Defense Ministry confirmed the purchase of thirty-five F-35 Strike Fighters at $50 million per plane. SHARE THE WORLD RESOURCES calculated the cost of each plane as the following; 128,205,128 Meals [...]

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Burning Money For Quiet

March 26, 2012 – 1:20 pm

Last January Jamie Parker and I were drinking at a bar on Soi Bukhao in Pattaya. Several sound systems competed for our attention and Jamie said, “I’ve never see a people more allergic to silence than the Thais.” “The TV in my house is always on.” Thais love their soaps. “What about the loudspeakers in [...]

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Billion Euro House

March 26, 2012 – 12:47 pm

In fall of 1997 I rented a converted schoolhouse in Ballyconeelly from Lord Guinness of the Guinness Beer fortune. The monthly rent for the autumn was 600 Irish pounds or almost $1000. I was splitting the cost with my friend Ty Spaulding, but upon arriving at the desolate dwelling in the coastal bogs I discovered [...]

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