Archive for April, 2009
more searching for an honest broker
By Tom Teicholz at 21 April, 2009, 11:15 am
There’s a curious interview on Rumpus.net with Michael Pollan –in which the interview tries to have Pollan apply the ideas he’s developed about food to the economy — Pollan resists not wanting to impute a moral dimension to the economy — but worth checking out.
Also Planet Money is an offshoot of This American Life which [...]
Holocaust killing fields
By Tom Teicholz at 20 April, 2009, 11:03 am
Speaking of the Holocaust — and who isn’t? Today in advance of Holocaust remembrance Day, Yad Vashem started to release and post information they have gathered about killing fields where jews were mass-murdered in trenches and diches in the Ukraine, Belarus, latvia, Lithuania, Russia.
The material contains accounts by both victims and witneseses as well as [...]
April 20 -4/20 - highs and lows
By Tom Teicholz at 20 April, 2009, 10:59 am
Here’s a weird one:
April 20, being Hitler’s birth date has always been a date of heightened alert for neo-Nazi celebrations.
However, at the same time over the past few years April 20 has also become a day for celbrating the use of mariajuana (often by using such mentioned marijuana).
Marijuana lore has it that a group of [...]
In a search of an honest broker
By Tom Teicholz at 18 April, 2009, 5:37 pm
The last six months/year in the life of our economy have forced many of us the rethink our long held notions about finance, investing, the stock market, investments and investment advisors of all stripes.
Jeffrey Goldberg in the Atlantic confronts this issue in his own way and I think it is worth reading because it is [...]
the blog
By Tom Teicholz at 18 April, 2009, 12:40 pm
I’ve been blogging for about a year now, and I thought I would take a moment to assess my thoughts and feelings about it.
I began convinced it was essential and necessary — I’m not sure that’s true, but it did help increase web traffic and readership, and as I’;ve adopted facebook it makes it possible [...]
The surge
By Tom Teicholz at 18 April, 2009, 12:29 pm
There are many reasons men of a certain age wake up in the middle of the night — they may be alimentary, digestive, prostate related or anxiety driven, and god knows I have experienced all of those, but there is another reason that sometimes combines with the above called the surge and it can be [...]
Read More >>not feeling like Tom Friedman
By Tom Teicholz at 16 April, 2009, 4:46 pm
don’t know why but the last two weeks (maybe longer, who knows), I have been having lots of conversations in my head but I have not been blogging them — it’s one of those ironies of feeling pressure to do other things when it’s all self-induced — maybe that explains it.
So for example yesterday I [...]
Demjanjuk update: 6th Circuit asks both sides to file briefs by next Thurs
By Tom Teicholz at 16 April, 2009, 3:28 pm
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals asked both sides to file new briefs by next Thursday - They ask the US Justice Department to
address on the merits each of the four factors governing a stay of removal. In so doing, the government should inform the court of its plans for the transportation of [...]
Demjanjuk released from federal custody
By Tom Teicholz at 14 April, 2009, 9:05 pm
The soap opera continues. Pending the review by the 6th Circuit court of appeals Demjanjuk has been released from Federal custody.
Let’s see what tomorrow brings.
Video of Demjanjuk leaving home in Cleveland
By Tom Teicholz at 14 April, 2009, 12:41 pm
I just watched video of John Demjanjuk being removed from his house in a wheelchair (not a stretcher as reported elsewhere). It is hard to tell who was there (family members, attorneys).
Demjanjuk is being deported to stand trial in Germany accused of accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jewish men women and children at the [...]