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Warning: Don’t watch HBO’s John Adams on a full stomach

I’ve watched the first three parts of HBO’s John Adams miniseries. and so far I’ve seen a naked dude tarred and feathered, another dude whose entire body is devoured by smallpox sores, puking, blood letting, dementia, another dude having his leg sawed off without anesthetic, and Ben Franklin bathing with a really heinous old French Chick. …

21: Vegas never really loses

I was just extremely entertained to notice that Las Vegas is actually helping to promote the new movie 21, which dramatizes the MIT Card Counting Team’s time in their Casinos. It’s like they are saying, “Go ahead and try to cheat. Either you’ll be bad at it or we’ll bust your kneecaps. Either way, we know you’re …

Backpeddle Jim Cramer, Backpeddle!

Personally, I think almost all stock prognosticators are full of it. I’ve enjoyed Jim Cramer and he certainly sounds like he knows what he’s talking about. Ask him about some company with four employees making ankle bracelets in Hawaii, and he’s tell you that he just toured their plant last week and had lunch with …