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By Brian Mudd Apr 8, 2021 To make a strong 2024 case for Governor DeSantis, he first needs to win reelection 2022. It should go without saying but Ron DeSantis has no chance of being a serious 2024 contender if he loses his 2022 re-election bid to be governor of Florida. So, first thing’s first. In the context of the 2022 race, think about what’s happened within this 60 Minutes debacle. Not only was CBS News and 60 Minutes shown to be fake news, but so were DeSantis’s two leading 2...

“Scary” Stocks Go Up Most of The Time   Even a quick perusal of a few investing references or media articles will leave you with the clear impression that stocks are “scary” and bonds are “safe”.  That seems to be the conventional wisdom. But the conventional wisdom is predicated on the misleading idea that routine volatility equals risk.  And because stocks have higher routine volatility than bonds, stocks must be scary.  However, it turns out that routine volatility tells us ...

This is a story for anyone who’s ever reached into the cavity of a raw chicken, groped around for the neck and the sack of giblets, set these parts to the side, and vowed to deal with them later. The same people who—once the bird itself has made its way to the oven—guiltily toss the neck, heart, liver, and gizzard into the trash bin because, honestly, you had no real intention of using them, despite that vow you made just 10 minutes prior. I’m not going to lie to you: While I’ve made ...

How refreshing.

Vive Le Rock! have been fans of SONS OF SOUTHERN ULSTER for a while now, their latest album Sinners & Lost Souls making our Albums of the Year. We caught up with the boys from County Cavan to get the lowdown… So the Sons of Southern Ulster have been around for a while. How did you all get together? Justin: We spent our formative years in the same small town in Cavan. At that time, Cavan would have been a bit of a backwater and while it is part of the province that is Ulster – it was on th...

Sasha Calle of The Young and the Restless fame to play Supergirl in DC's The Flash

Tough Luck! A Guide to Theatre Superstitions Steve and I in “Pedrolino in a Pinch” long ago. Note: coin in my hand is NOT real. Note: Neither is Steve’s mustache. Elise Seyfried February 19, 2021 As someone who believes in superstitions, many of which I learned from my Irish grandma (I’d better not EVER see you leave a hat on a bed), I was delighted to dig into the history of theatrical superstitions recently. Some of these were familiar to me from my acting days, but several ...

Geographical Magazine Discovering Britain: Walking the Quantocks with Wordsworth and Coleridge Written by  Rory Walsh The view from Quantock Hills Somerset England UK towards Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station and the Bristol Channel on a summer evening 17 Feb For Discovering Britain this month, Rory Walsh takes a Romantic stroll in the Quantocks I wondered, lonely as a cloud that floats up high above hills and dales, when will I next join ...

August 11, 2010 Jeff Fuchs (middle) with Tibetan travel partners at Trola Pass in Tibet, more than 5,000 meters above sea level Yunnan is only beginning to plug into regional and global supply chains and logistics networks, but for centuries it was at the heart of one of the worlds largest and most important trade networks: The Ancient Tea and Horse Road (茶马古道). Often referred to as the South Silk Road, the route differs from its more famous northern cousin in that rather than connectin...

This is especially needed now, as the pandemic has further exposed deep-seated racial, social and political rifts in our nation.