Greek negotiations with the Eurozone. Wow, what a page turner and day-by-day soap opera. Any news I print today is obsolete by tomorrow, so I'll comment only on what I believe is really going on behind the scenes.

- "Game Theory": wow, fascinating to see it play out in the economic theory sense of the phrase live and in-person day by day. I'm learning a lot about negotiations, too, a subject I thought I knew well in business school.

- "the Communists"...

Grrr: another rant. Responding to the quoted, perhaps for my own peace of mind. Subject: start your own business, that's the key to prosperity. My response: uh, no, that is by and large BULL___T. Getting down to it:


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I'd considered this as a C-D general post, but like many controversial topics it will end up with a hundred replies from opposite poles, with little actual insight or analysis. Thus, here: one man's opinion.

The topic: an article I found on National Review today (5/22/15): essentially, suicide-adulation in Palo Alto teens.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...ggie-gallagher

Reading further, it's what...

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I'm curious how our (American, Canadian) affluent-level shopping habits are changing.

I am a member of Amazon Prime and Costco, Netflix, and Google music and data storage. I like the latter because it serves up my purchased-earlier music, and adds/augments based on what they think I "might" like (taste profile).

"So what." I don't go to retail stores much anymore. This happened subtly, past ten years or less (probably past five, more-so)....