In memory of Billy Mays, greatest pitchman since P.T. Barnum
Billy Mays died today. As much as I hate infomercials you have to admire the guy’s legacy. The below are posted in memorium.
The folly of buying in a bubble
Buy when there’s blood in the streets. I personally feel we have a ways to go, at least in my market, before the bottom is reached, but this strip sums up the intelligent investor’s approach admirably. People have been sold a myth by the Realtors association that caused them to take outsized risks with great [...]
Man or Mouse
A study on mice found that inhibition of nitric oxide, a neurotransmitter, led to increased aggression, often fatal between males. Another effect was persistent sexual advances even where females were not receptive. It seems that both of these behaviors are linked: Johns Hopkins University scientists have discovered a genetic basis for violent and excessive sexual [...]
Men Live for Dangerous Curves
It’s well known that men are attracted to an hourglass shape in women, yet with obesity rampant and rising in America, such exemplary specimens are becoming more difficult to find. Size inflation has become a national pastime. In the popular media, we continually hear how men should overcome their nature and give “real women” meaning [...]
Snake Oil
With the National Health Care bill before congress the cost of health care has been on everyone’s minds lately. Despite outspending other nations by orders of magnitude our level of national health is nowhere near as stellar. First our spending: Current estimates put U.S. health care spending at approximately 15.2% of GDP, second only to [...]
On the Block: Recession exacts a toll four times greater on men
We are rapidly approaching a time when fewer men than women will be employed. This is because the rate of job loss for men since this recession began is four times greater for men than for women. Furthermore, the jobs being lost are disproportionately in construction, manufacturing and the world of finance, all realms that [...]
Are All Children Equally valuable? Parental Investment Suggests the Answer Is No.
Research shows that parental behavior assigns greater value to attractive children. Apparently the care and protection provided to beautiful kids far outweighs that given to sub-par offspring. Doubtless these findings will be vociferously denied by any parents asked because they highlight a very non-PC trait we all possess: prejudice against inferior genomes. We all (some [...]
Best TV Take on the Feminist Dilemma
The answer to life, the universe and everything: cha-ching, jackpot.
Stealing our future
Thought the TARP, TALF, AIG and Automaker bailouts were egregious misallocations of money we don’t have? Try this one on for size. The amount of undisclosed non-public off balance sheet deficit expansion under the Fed since the Credit Crisis dwarfs what we have heard about to the tune of eight trillion dollars. All the above [...]
Live Fast, Die Young, and Leave Many Offspring: The Net Effect of High Testosterone is Reproductive Success
A rhetorical question with the evidence to back up the answer: Does being an Alpha male pay off in the long run? Not surprisingly, the answer is “duh.” Alpha males are known for being a macho men, and this is the result of greater circulating testosterone levels and its consequent secondary sexual characteristics that define [...]
