The big news in Holland Tuesday is that a TV report claiming that soccer star Mark van Bommel is planning to become a German citizen was a hoax that Van Bommel helped manufacture. This is very funny stuff in Holland, I think. (You want to become a … German?!? Ha ha ha ha ha.) Anyway, [...]
In an e-mail that came in while I was on vacation, reader Mike Mitchell wrote: Just curious about something I see you and others mention frequently, especially in light of Rupert Murdoch’s takeover of the Wall Street Journal. The phrase typically invoked is “right-wing editorial page”. I read the WSJ every day – read the [...]
Every once in a while (more often than really is appropriate, but not what you could call frequently), I look up from what I’m reading in the subway to discover that I’ve missed my stop. Sometimes I’ve even missed two stops. Anyway, as I rolled into Times Square on the downtown 1 train Monday morning [...]
Warren Buffett is quoted in this morning’s W$J saying that “I can spend money faster than Imelda Marcos when things are right.” The implication of the Heard on the Street column in which he appears is that after several overpriced years, things are getting to be “right,” athough Buffett himself never says this. All in [...]
