One year ago today
Wall Street is not made up of "numbers guys": A timely reminder that Mitt Romney and other Wall Street Types are not, by and large, superhero math geniuses with their fingers on the arcane numeric truths underpinning all reality. Some quants are genuinely impressive mathematicians, but the industry's reputation for "numbers guys," is just wrong-o.
Five years ago today
Place setting by a five-year-old girl: My five-year-old daughter asked to set the table a couple of night ago. Here's how she set her place.
Ten years ago today
Classic Canadian social-democratic parable: The Story of Mouseland, written by Tommy Douglas (founder of Canada's New Democratic Party, nee Cooperative Commonwealth Federation) in 1944 is a parable about the need for a third party to represent working peoples' interests:.
