Message below from our Milwaukee friend Bob Grambling. I met Bob at a sushi bar down the street from my apartment when I was living in downtown Milwaukee. We later attended many BMW rallies together, along with his partner…
In This Land
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Why there will never be publicly funded elections in the U.S.
We just spent a couple of weeks in Iowa. During the presidential campaign portion of the election cycle. During the pre-caucus portion of the presidential campaign portion of the election cycle. There is nothing quite like that experience. Especially if…
Iowa Factoids
We spent last weekend at my hometown’s big annual event and doing our yearly pilgrimage to the Iowa State Fair with our granddaughter. While we were at the fair some banners containing information about Iowa’s agricultural output caught my eye.…
Marriage Saver Headsets
We discovered these when we were planning to travel by sailboat. We carry a set with us now. If you do anything with your spouse that involves moving, coordinating, loading, deploying, etc. anything mechanical or in a high noise or…
What did you do in the great real estate bubble crash, grandpa?
Legend has it that on a pleasant September Friday morning a rich stock broker stopped to get his shoes shined on his way to work. As he perused the morning paper he overhead his shoe shine boy trading stock tips…