Tuesday Tune-up

Tift Merritt & Andrew Bird, "Drifted Apart"

Quote for the Week, November 24-30, 2013

Let's just make sure it's not a third-world experience.
--Henry Chao, deputy chief information officer, CMMS, six months before the roll-out of Healthcare.gov

RCA Sold to You

Fifty years ago today, 1:30 p.m.,
floor of the New York Stock Exchange. 
More here.

Tuesday Tune-up

Over the Rhine, "Sacred Ground"

JFK Retrospective on PBS

Lest we forget.

Quote for the Week, November 17-23, 2013

Punishing a company and its many innocent employees and shareholders for the crimes committed by some unprosecuted individuals seems contrary to elementary notions of moral responsibility.
--U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff

Tuesday Tune-up

Heart, "Stairway to Heaven"

Quote for the Week, November 10-16, 2013

Everybody, they just don't get it and they think it's crazy.  But I think what I was doing is crazy.
--John Moffitt on his unexpected mid-season retirement from professional football

Football was fun but my head hurts-haha kidding roger goodell. I'm on to new things, thanks to everyone along the way!!!
— John Moffitt (@Moffitt74) November 5, 2013

Election Day 2014 Minus 364

Back sticker sentiment. LePage rally. #mepolitics pic.twitter.com/PtSofmfGHy
— Scott Thistle (@thisdog) November 5, 2013

It's official:  Paul LePage will run for re-election.

And the 38-percenters haven't gone anywhere.

Tuesday Tune-up

Lily & Madeleine, "In the Middle"

A Step Closure

V-B Day! #RedSox #Champions #NeverForget #BostonStrong pic.twitter.com/TzdkhWuwyw
— Obnoxious Boston Fan (@realOBF) November 2, 2013

Quote for the Week, November 3-9, 2013

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
--Albert Einstein

Red Sox Go 3 for 10

Exclamation point.

Tuesday Tune-up

Chick Corea, "Armando's Rhumba"

Quote for the Week, October 27-November 2, 2013

Is it time to disappear?
Oh babe, can we just get out of here?
You and me love and no one near
Walk me to the edge of the world
Meet me at the edge of the world
I'm waiting at the edge of the world
--song by Over the Rhine

QE Is Destroying Wealth

"The failure of investors to learn from experience isn’t just an inconvenience – the constant misallocation of capital resulting from these speculative episodes is gradually destroying our nation’s economic potential for long-term growth and job creation. We measure our standard of living by the amount of output that an individual is able to command for a given amount of work. We measure our productivity by the amount that an individual is able to produce for a given amount of work. Over time, these two must go hand in hand. Policies that misallocate savings away from productive investment and toward unproductive speculation are the same policies that do long-term violence to our nation’s standard of living. Although the members of the Federal Reserve undoubtedly mean well, their actions are at the center of the assault."

--John Hussman, weekly market commentary (10-21-13)

Tuesday Tune-up

André Rieu, "The Emperor Waltz"

Quote for the Week, October 20-26, 2013

That field, never shall I forget it.  From a selfish point of view it would be so much easier to die than to see all that suffering.
--William Potwin Morgan, officer in the American Expeditionary Forces, following the Battle of Soissons, July 1918

Tuesday Tune-up

Lucy Schwartz, "Gravity"

Grown Men Behaving Deliriously

Watch the dugout empty.