The gadflies at the Motley Fool even began a contest to see who could come up with a raise-the-Titanic-style rescue plan for Priceline. (Sample suggestion: replace spokeswarbler William Shatner with Wayne Newton.) Everybody is piling onto the former billionaire and his busted business plan....
I had a sense that for decades, everyone kind of expected a sudden, catastrophic loss of credibility at every significant moment – a single spectacular event, abrupt like the sinking of the Titanic. But on and on the ship of national corporate media went, seemingly undisturbed by any such ...
Has all the Atocha treasure been found? A second hurricane on October 5 further destroyed the wreck, and despite six decades of searching by Spanish salvagers,no trace of Atocha or its treasures would be found. the search for Atocha
no matter what. And the big dark cloud hanging over us has a name: Recession. The good thing this time is that you have experience from the pandemic back in 2020. You can quickly draw conclusions about what you did and didn't do to ride out the horrible pandemic in the best possible...
What books did we read tonight? We read the first six pages of a book about the human body and the first ten pages of a book about the Titanic. The Wee Bairn, my beloved spouse, and I then discussed our impressions of the books. My kiddo has a lot of thoughts, and it was so mu...
If our political culture is, as Thiel says, something like rearranging furniture on the Titanic, is the goal to “have dissident voices,” or to turn the ship around by whatever means possible? Whither, in all of this, religion? These questions and others were taken up most substantively in...