Overheard this morning in the Tobak household: “Have you seen this year’s property tax bill?” “I know, right? They’ve piled on a laundry list of local bonds, taxes and initiatives. And the assessment went up.” “Trying to figure out how we’re going to pay it by Friday.” “Take it out[…] Read On
Forget Christmas. Federal regulations are the gifts that keep on giving. Year after year, thousands of rules are added and few are ever repealed. In 2015 alone, 3,378 rules were finalized and 2,334 were proposed for a total of 81,405 pages, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think tank.[…] Read On
As far back as I can remember, we’ve heard that machines are going to take our jobs and destroy the working class. Every decade or so, the media gets hysterical over some hot new technology, and then a strange thing happens: absolutely nothing. The cataclysm never comes. And in my[…] Read On
Now that Donald Trump has proven it can be done, everyone and his brother wants to be President, from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to Oprah Winfrey and Dallas Mavs owner Mark Cuban. I’d say this is getting a little ridiculous, but when I look at Washington[…] Read On
There are all sorts of loony notions being promulgated as truths by many political, academic and business leaders, not to mention agitators, activists, anarchists and the mainstream media. Those people have one thing in common: They’re all idiots. And those idiots are confusing the hell out of young people, all[…] Read On
For a while, we upgraded iPhones every two years. Then it slipped to three. Going forward, who knows? Will I upgrade to Apple’s new iPhone 8 or X? Nope, and I’ll tell you why: We have so many gadgets now that upgrading has become an annoying, time consuming, expensive pain[…] Read On
A few years back, I headed off to San Francisco International Airport on eve of July 4th, concerned about warnings of possible terrorist attacks the likes of which we hadn’t seen since 9/11. The day was thankfully uneventful, but it brought back personal memories of the most devastating attack on[…] Read On