Six days, seven hours. That’s how long we were forced to flee our home of 26 years in the wake of the Bay Area wildfires. First we were locked down. Then we were locked out. Which is worse? You know, I don’t even want to go there. All I know[…] Read On
I’m sure you’ve all heard about the wildfires raging across California since that bizarre lightning storm ignited tens of thousands of acres of dry kindling that the Sierra Club’s lawyers blocked anyone from clearing for decades. As a result, the Tobaks have magically morphed into a family of meandering nomads[…] Read On
“Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together … mass hysteria!” – Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters Tesla has a $351 billion market cap. With a P/E of 976. Ellen Degeneres is getting canceled. Seth Rogen is being hailed as a historian of Judaism for playing a Jewish guy in a movie. A[…] Read On
I’m inspired. Today, I got a haircut. It never felt so good. Never mind how pathetic that sounds. It’s something a lot of us are feeling lately. Never mind that my haircut had to take place out in the parking lot and the business owner and all her stylists can’t[…] Read On
This week we have two stories about some of the dumbest CEO moves in recent memory. First up: Remember the Kodak story from last week — how the Trump administration shocked the drug world by awarding the flailing camera maker a $765 million loan to make chemicals for big Pharma?[…] Read On
Nobody’s perfect. We all make mistakes. Sometimes our mistakes harm others. For most of us, workplace errors have relatively benign effects. Not so for doctors, firefighters, police, politicians and other jobs where lives are at stake. That may be power but it’s also a burden. A heavy burden. Look. Nobody[…] Read On
The phone is ringing. We stopped answering it years ago. Now it just records robocalls and stuff. Why even have a home phone? Our property has a gate. The home phone controls the gate. My not-so-smart home guy has a plan to fix that — along with half a dozen[…] Read On