Archive for August 2003

The monthlies.

• Cut treasury costs and stir deflation in one flail swoop

  Eliminating the penny will do wonders for our big country. The argument made for keeping the penny has always been one of history and nostalgia. A senator opposed to the elimination stated, “What would happen to the saying, ‘A penny saved is a penny earned.’” I think we have bigger issues to deal with. Here [...]

• The Post — In-depth news from Washington and around the World.

  The Post is an idea for a premium-cable news channel. Why pay for what you can get for free (CNN, MSNBC, FNC)? No fluff, no commercials… pure news. The Post will NOT… – air commercials. – run day-to-day weather forecasts, but will run segments on newsworthy weather stories, e.g., tornadoes, droughts, blizzards, etc. – show [...]

• Why an acre is 43,560 square feet…

  Gunter, an Englishman, devised of a uniform method to plot out lots of the King’s land. He established a chain, Gunter’s Chain, as being 66 feet. This chain was soon standardized. He decided that an acre is 10 square Gunter’s Chains. Therefore, 66 ft. x 66 ft. x 10 = 43560 sq. ft. Also, the [...]

• Secretaries of State and Defense

  The Secretary of Defense should always be for war (and in this sense, Donald Rumsfeld is a great Defense Minister), and the Secretary of State should always be for peace, against war, and always striving for diplomatic resolve. (Colin Powell, some may successfully argue, meets this criterion.) However, when the Secretary of State has zero-say [...]

• The Big Four in Eighty-Four

  The story of the 1884 Buffalo Bisons season. Made into screenplay/film.

• Buffalo Bisons baseball club

  Purchase, as a minority owner, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and relocate the team to Buffalo. Rename the team either the Bisons or the Blue Sox.

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