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08/06/19     The Enron Connection to $135 Oil
08/06/18     By the Power Vested in Me . . .
08/06/17     Bullish on America
08/06/16     Let's Go Viral
08/06/13     Lost
08/06/12     Farming Wind
08/06/11     18 Million Cracks
08/06/10     Bar Bets You Can Win
08/06/09     It's Not All Bad News
08/06/06     What Ketchup and a Map of the United States Have in Common
08/06/05     Why Chlorinate Your Pool When You Can Grow Algae in It?
08/06/04     Anger Management
08/06/03     Winning Bar Bets
08/06/02     Three-Minute Video (and What You DIDN'T See on TV)
08/05/30     Fundraising Letters to Look Forward To
08/05/29     Quit Smoking, Brush Your Teeth, Pay Off Your Credit Cards
08/05/28     Honest Tea and Straight Talk
08/05/27     Hope for Energy Efficiency - and Perhaps Even for FMD
08/05/23     How Borealis Could Save the World
08/05/22     Little Corporate Dishonesties
08/05/21     We Do A Lot of Good Things in the World
08/05/20     Snippets from the End of the World
08/05/19     You Just Never Know
08/05/16     So Sayeth the (California) Supreme Court
08/05/15     Dick Cheney Has Better Health Insurance than You
08/05/14     Inflate, Investigate, Instigate
08/05/13     Tuesday, Bluesday
08/05/12     Viewer Discretion Advised
08/05/09     The K Street Express
08/05/08     The True Inflation and Unemployment Rates
08/05/07     This Man Gets on a Bus . . .
08/05/06     Cake
08/05/05     Fun / Not Fun
08/05/02     Putting the Con in Economics
08/05/01     May Day! May Day!
08/04/30     SPACs
08/04/29     There May Be Hope Yet
08/04/28     Allocating Among Vanguard Funds
08/04/25     Money and Politics
08/04/24     The Debt; The Race
08/04/23     Goose Bumps
08/04/22     The Court, Our Debt
08/04/21     I'd Vote For You First, But Then For Someone Who Could WIN
08/04/18     Filling Your Tank for Just $2 Someday
08/04/17     BOREF, GLDD, RSW, COFFEE, OPERA - AND VOTING
08/04/16     Equality
08/04/15     Food
08/04/14     Energy
08/04/11     Volunteer
08/04/10     Customer Service
08/04/09     FMD and Senator McCain's Finance Guru
08/04/08     A Night On Safari at the Opera with Your Chumby and Your Jungle Disk
08/04/07     But Can an Elephant Rebalance Asset Classes?
08/04/04     Pachyderm or Picasso?
08/04/03     Well, I Sure Got My Money's Worth Out of THIS Sunday's New York Times
08/04/02     Finally: A Liar to Admire
08/04/01     April 1
08/03/31     And How, Exactly, Will Living in a Cave Help?
08/03/28     Dazzling Digital Deals
08/03/27     An Orange Juice Tanker Hit Our Barge
08/03/26     If the Taiwanese Go Nuclear, We Could Send in the British Navy
08/03/25     Will These Sites Suit?
08/03/24     Make Widgets, Not Warships
08/03/21     A Very Funny Clip
08/03/20     My Fourth iPhone
08/03/19     How Bad? How Long?
08/03/18     The Will of the People
08/03/17     How Superdelegates Should Vote
08/03/14     The Biggest Threat We Face
08/03/13     Chickens Flying In From All Points
08/03/12     Superpowers, Nose Rings, and Buddhism
08/03/11     There Is A Pattern Here
08/03/10     Nervous, Yes; Gorgonized - Never!
08/03/07     Ah, the Smell of Carbon Paper in the Morning
08/03/06     The Rules Rule
08/03/05     Tips and Dips
08/03/04     Less Than Zero
08/03/03     The WB
08/02/29     It's Leap Year -- Take the Day Off
08/02/28     TXCO, ACAI, CZAR, WFBJ
08/02/27     Why You Have to Be 18 to Vote
08/02/26     Acquitted in Under Two Hours
08/02/25     Nader, McCain, and Rove
08/02/22     Three Good Ideas
08/02/21     18 Years Shacked Up with the Birds and the Bees
08/02/20     Now, That's One Hot Grain of Sand
08/02/19     This Can't Be Good
08/02/18     This Can't Be Good
08/02/15     The Check List and the Commish
08/02/14     Landing Gear Down - Check; Hands Washed - Check
08/02/13     The Life-Saving Checklist
08/02/12     Superdelegates - Click the Link
08/02/11     If the World IS Ending, Why Not Visit Paradise?
08/02/08     One Republican Grandfather's View
08/02/07     Good News, Bad News, Smartypants
08/02/06     Seeing the Sunshine
08/02/05     The Recycled Industrial Mesh that Holds Up Our Pouf
08/01/05     The Recycled Industrial Mesh that Holds Up Our Pouf
08/02/04     Super Bowl, Super Tuesday
08/02/01     Your Two Cents on My Two Cents
08/01/31     Read This
08/01/30     One Thin Dime
08/01/29     If I Were a Rich Man - AII dil AII dil AII dil AII dil AII dil AII dil AII dil d'AII
08/01/28     Go Dutch, Save Money
08/01/25     Another Survey
08/01/24     Is That Guacamole on Your Face or Are You Just Green with Envy?
08/01/23     Take My Survey -- Please!
08/01/22     Cucumbers
08/01/21     Happy Birthday, Reverend
08/01/18     Remember Bidil?
08/01/17     Simulating a Florida Primary
08/01/16     If We're Not Real, Why NOT Give Everyone Health Insurance?
08/01/15     Snow Day
08/01/14     And Here You Thought You Were Real
08/01/11     Checking on Your Mutual Fund with Your iPhone from Costa Rica
08/01/10     My Politics in 30 Seconds
08/01/09     Dealing with the Stress of the Strike
08/01/08     I'm Radioactive!
08/01/07     Winning the Popular Vote
08/01/04     Kristol, Krugman, Sex, Etc.
08/01/03     20 Financial Predictions
08/01/02     Happy New Year!
07/12/31     Bill Joy to the World: The Downside of Technology
07/12/28     Give Mama a Llama
07/12/27     Sunshine
07/12/24     A Christmas Eve Message
07/12/21     The 140-Degree Latte
07/12/20     They Hate That
07/12/19     Chickens Coming Home to Roost on Spaceship Earth
07/12/18     A Grand Time to Make $1 Billion Teaching Computers to Write Software
07/12/17     More Kurzweil
07/12/14     Oh, Boy
07/12/13     The Genius of Dual Flush
07/12/12     The Earth Has a Fever
07/12/11     Buy a Cactus
07/12/10     2011 Is Right Around the Corner
07/12/07     FMD Changing Symbol to UGH
07/12/06     What Was THAT? !
07/12/05     Mozy
07/12/04     Solutions
07/12/03     Anti-Symantecism
07/11/30     Lights Out
07/11/29     Symantec
07/11/28     Obit
07/11/27     Of Borrowers, Lenders, and 6,000 Applicants for 300 Unskilled Jobs
07/11/26     If the Bank Fails, We Could Always Open a Restaurant
07/11/23     A New Spaculation
07/11/21     TG
07/11/20     Healthy, Wealthy, and With It
07/11/19     A Clip You Should Watch to Save the World - With Hats
07/11/16     Drive Smart and Social Security Will Be There When You Retire
07/11/15     Green Laptops and the Unbox
07/11/14     Tom Brokaw And Warren Buffett Write Today’s Column
07/11/13     Smart Cars to Drive in Palm Beach
07/11/12     Mint, Green, and Purple
07/11/09     Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome
07/11/08     WaMu, Citi, and Chase
07/11/07     American Business At Its Best
07/11/06     Lenovo Recommends Vista - II
07/11/05     Why We're In Iraq But You Should See Bee Movie Anyway
07/11/02     Our Less-Than-AAA Rating Agencies
07/11/01     High Interest Checking and a Super Yield Money Market Account
07/10/31     With His Severance, ex-CEO Could Buy Four BOREF's
07/10/30     Who Got Merrill's $8.4 Billion?
07/10/29     Big Ifs
07/10/26     A $100 Investment for Your Kids
07/10/25     A Good Day
07/10/24     Finally -- Something Not Boring
07/10/23     Welcome!
07/10/22     Boring!
07/10/19     Mud, Paper -- "Not Dollars" -- and Ambulatory Infusion Pumps
07/10/18     The Most Boring Column I Ever Wrote
07/10/17     Napping
07/10/16     It May Be HAPNing
07/10/15     20 Calories Per Serving
07/10/12     What Have We Done?
07/10/11     Getting Mine
07/10/10     Apple's Insensitivity (and Other Dating Tips)
07/10/09     Design Your Own Pet
07/10/08     For What Purpose Does the Gentlelady Rise?
07/10/05     Whizzing Past Security
07/10/04     Optimism
07/10/03     The Soul of Capitalism
07/10/02     Your Commitment
07/10/01     Tough Year/s Ahead
07/09/28     More Napping
07/09/27     Just Nap for Two Weeks
07/09/26     Competition, Junk Mail, and Condos
07/09/25     I Am an Idiot
07/09/24     The 400
07/09/21     Legalize Wal-Mart
07/09/20     Thanks, Mayor
07/09/19     Stocks Up, Times Free, Sheik Fake
07/09/18     Who ARE These Other 4 Billion People?
07/09/17     Hoping for a Salad Spinner
07/09/14     Scarred for Life by Friendly's Merger
07/09/13     Don't Sell
07/09/12     Reason Enough
07/09/11     Cantango!
07/09/10     First Mud, Now Paper
07/09/07     Rudy Video and More
07/09/06     Money Angles and Disposable Cups
07/09/05     Commodity Funds; Gonzales and Rove
07/09/03     The Easter Bunny, The Planet, Warrants and Student Loans
07/08/31     Eggplant And Asperger’s
07/08/30     Eggplant And Asperger's
07/08/29     Worst Hotel -- Part Deux
07/08/28     Fear of Cheesecake
07/08/27     The Worst!
07/08/24     A TSA Screener Responds
07/08/23     Magically Making Crest Disappear
07/08/22     View from Boots on the Ground
07/08/21     Carpooligans
07/08/20     Lower, Less, Less
07/08/17     Should You Sell?
07/08/16     More Galbraith
07/08/15     Battery Life
07/08/14     Find Me, Mine Me, Grind Me
07/08/13     What to Sell? What to Sell?
07/08/10     A Dictatorial Police State
07/08/09     A Few Words About the French
07/08/08     Pretty Stamps
07/08/07     A Galbraith Quote You May Not Find in the Wall Street Journal
07/08/06     Back Pain from Forever Drilling Through Metasediment
07/08/03     Reading Grantham Could Give YOU Debilitating Back Pain
07/08/02     Imagine
07/08/01     Iran, Your Pool, My Tea
07/07/31     Boiling Eggs in Your Pool
07/07/30     Purple America
07/07/27     Lots to See and Read This Weekend
07/07/26     Young At Heart?
07/07/25     Airplane 2
07/07/24     Falling Behind the French
07/07/23     If We Don't Nuke Iran, We Could Nuke Your Pool
07/07/20     Did He Shoot California in the Face, Too?
07/07/19     Roosevelt, Vitter, & Bartlet
07/07/18     Everyone Into the (Impeachment) Pool
07/07/17     Wealthy, Healthy, and Wise
07/07/16     8.5 Stars, $8.50 a Share
07/07/13     Serge Protectors
07/07/12     Chlibby
07/07/11     (Burn) This Old House
07/07/10     SiCKER
07/07/09     I'm Hurt! Call a Clerk!
07/07/06     Live!
07/07/05     Libby-rated
07/07/03     Up, Up and Away!
07/07/02     Which Finger Would You Reattach?
07/06/29     Sex and the CFL
07/06/28     Ask Not Watt Your Country Can Do for You
07/06/27     WiFi Make You Itch?
07/06/26     Can Openers
07/06/25     I'm Back
07/06/21     Isn't Life Wonderful?
07/06/20     Alison - At Last
07/06/19     People's Stories About Their Health Insurance
07/06/18     People's Stories
07/06/15     Four DON'Ts and a Bomb
07/06/14     Bob Barr and Jon Stewart Agree
07/06/13     Save 45% Even If You're Not Speaking to Each Other
07/06/12     Don’t Ask, Don’t Translate
07/06/11     The Iniquity of Inequity
07/06/08     Borealis Gets a Dividend
07/06/07     Fun and Games
07/06/06     Cauliflower and Your Prostate
07/06/05     Iran and Your Prostate
07/06/04     The Boy with Spiders Living in His Ear
07/06/01     Hanging Teenagers
07/05/31     This Bank Will Throw Your Dog a Bone
07/05/30     The Pinchot Retirement Program
07/05/29     Iran, Iraq, Irat; Iranus, Iraqus, I Rant
07/05/25     Views
07/05/24     Flashlights to the Amazon
07/05/23     Time to Pay Attention
07/05/22     Like Father Like Son
07/05/21     WATCH The Plane Move
07/05/18     Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!
07/05/17     These Six Year Olds Wear Ties
07/05/16     Winning In Iraq and Fort Lauderdale
07/05/15     1.8 Million Species, But a Single Stamp
07/05/14     Listen to the General
07/05/11     A Graduation Day Gift
07/05/10     I Miss You!
07/05/09     Or You Could Buy Mom Some $3 Gas
07/05/08     Yet More o' Borealis
07/05/07     Borealis, Mud, and Cauliflower
07/05/04     Forty-One Years
07/05/03     A Boy Named Sue
07/05/02     Road Trip!
07/05/01     May Day
07/04/30     Randy and George
07/04/27     Really Good
07/04/26     Moolah
07/04/25     Be Your Own Little Credit Card Company?
07/04/24     Your Fleks; Your Pooch
07/04/23     Sprint Mobile Cards
07/04/20     Long Weekend
07/04/19     We Are Now!
07/04/18     Three Quick Ones
07/04/17     Good News, Bad News
07/04/16     Who's Running the Show
07/04/13     Friday the 13th -- A Terrible Day To Do Your Taxes
07/04/12     1274 Pages, Unabridged
07/04/11     Two Things
07/04/10     My Turn
07/04/09     Which Would You Choose: Love or Country?
07/04/06     Mitt and Mawidge
07/04/05     Rolling through Baylor with the East German Secret Police
07/04/04     The Difference Is Day and Night
07/04/03     Citizenship
07/04/02     News From All Over
07/03/30     Might 4,000 Planes Move?
07/03/29     Net Magic
07/03/28     Watch!
07/03/27     The Forever Stamp
07/03/26     YouTube Without The Cr*p
07/03/23     Good Deal on a Country Club Membership
07/03/22     I Can Still Smell That Wonder Bread
07/03/21     When It Comes to Elections, These Guys Are Tough
07/03/20     Israel, Interest Rates, and Absurdistan
07/03/17     Those U.S. Attorneys (and TXCO and Designer Babies)
07/03/16     Unintended Consequences
07/03/15     Bite By Bite
07/03/14     Magic Tweak and a Case for (Some) Cash
07/03/13     Two Civil Wars (One Fictional)
07/03/12     Trust Your Common Sense
07/03/09     Magic
07/03/08     You Give This Video 6 Minutes, It'll Give You the Next 40 years
07/03/07     Er, Er, Costa Rica and Iran
07/03/06     Big Cities
07/03/05     Two Movies, One Hero, A Book, and an Idiot
07/03/02     Barbs, Barbara, and Borealis
07/03/01     The Per Diems Will Last Longer If You Don't Smoke in Iraq
07/02/28     Oops
07/02/27     Budget Priorities
07/02/26     The Words from Wyoming and Minnesota
07/02/23     One Continent Down . . .
07/02/22     Don't Sell
07/02/20     Don't Lick the Toads
07/02/16     From Lincoln to Lettuce to Lamb
07/02/15     Patience
07/02/14     No More Lightbulbs
07/02/13     Borealis Sends a Demon Boy to Warn Me
07/02/12     Abe
07/02/09     1001 Horsepower - I Want One!
07/02/08     A Road to Peace
07/02/07     More Free Food
07/02/06     Free Shishkabob at the Hilton
07/02/05     The . . . The . . . The . . .
07/02/02     Malcolm, Morgan, Joseph, Molly, Keith
07/02/01     Molly
07/01/31     Straight Talk About Tea and College Aid
07/01/30     From Minimum Wage to the Wall Street Journal
07/01/29     Strategy and Chocolate
07/01/26     More Hope for Earth
07/01/25     A Brighter Day
07/01/24     Loco
07/01/23     Yes, MORE About CFLs - And Here's Why
07/01/22     Annoying Books
07/01/19     A Great Idea
07/01/18     The Anonymous Company Spokesman
07/01/17     Four Minutes on Al-Jazeera
07/01/16     This Rabbi Walks Into a Bar
07/01/15     Doing My Taxes
07/01/12     Beating the Market, Shattering Your Hand, Saving on Diamonds
07/01/11     IIfx, CFL, WMT, FMD, FWIW
07/01/10     Yummy, Honey
07/01/09     The Hertz Lady, the Apocalypse, and $2.06 for Your Warrants
07/01/08     The President Would Be More Effective If He Stopped Making Things Up
07/01/05     The Hertz Lady
07/01/04     And Yet Maybe They Shouldn't Recycle It Into Napkins
07/01/03     The Quarter-Billion Dollar War Games We Ignored
07/01/02     Betavacation
06/12/29     Chocolate Diet Coke
06/12/28     $30 to Buy Better Bulbs
06/12/27     Pet Stains, Exploding Light Bulbs, and Immortality
06/12/26     Hope You Had a Great Christmas
06/12/22     It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
06/12/21     More Light
06/12/20     Stanley Gets His Steemer to the 11th Floor
06/12/19     Sorry; We're Closed
06/12/18     We're All In the Top 40%
06/12/15     How To Invest Your Money
06/12/14     Snow Day!
06/12/13     Chile
06/12/12     Why This Column May Look Messy
06/12/11     It's Not the Dogs' Fault
06/12/08     Name This Column
06/12/07     Leaving Sticky Notes for Your Kidnappers
06/12/06     Polonium 210, FMD 53
06/12/05     Party On!
06/12/04     Topless Women
06/12/01     Kuo
06/11/30     Google on Your Cell Phone
06/11/29     Michael Moore, Sy Hersh, Ted Koppel
06/11/28     Ben Stein Gets It Right
06/11/27     Dirty Dancing
06/11/24     Burp
06/11/22     Thanksgiving
06/11/21     Figs, Blimps, and Borealis
06/11/20     Just How Rich Are You?
06/11/17     Say You Win the Lottery
06/11/16     Save a Fortune on Drugs
06/11/15     Now the Gypsies Are Suing Borat
06/11/14     Finally, Steve Forbes Has a Good Idea
06/11/13     Borat
06/11/10     More Hope
06/11/09     Lou Gehrig Eating Pumpkin Spice Muffins in a Blimp
06/11/08     :-)
06/11/07     Hope
06/11/06     Short Strokes
06/11/03     Give It Up for Dick Armey
06/11/02     Good Clean Fun
06/11/01     A Little Ribbing
06/10/31     Let's Dress Up as an Ambassador
06/10/30     Half a Brain
06/10/27     Short Films
06/10/26     The First 100 Hours
06/10/25     The Well-Exercised Brain Does Not Misdial For Boobies
06/10/24     Is There's More Than One Of You, Can You Vote Twice?
06/10/23     How Much Sex Can You HAVE for $1.25?
06/10/20     The Market, the Meanness, and the Magic
06/10/19     Magic in a Microwave
06/10/18     Leverage and Loverage
06/10/17     It Was One of You Who Invented the Bleep
06/10/16     Hope Is on the Way
06/10/13     North Korea
06/10/12     Apocalypse Now
06/10/11     From Buffett to Borealis
06/10/10     More Must See TV
06/10/09     Chilled Fruit
06/10/06     -Half- As Good As Gold
06/10/05     On the Pews in Gander
06/10/04     From His Lips . . .
06/10/03     Morons
06/10/02     Pirates Attack Rome
06/09/29     Teach English in China Next Summer!
06/09/28     Bill's View
06/09/27     Inside
06/09/26     Democracy and Aldabra
06/09/25     Gas Prices
06/09/22     You Are Cordially Invited to Breakfast with Bishop Tutu, President Karzai and Queen Rania
06/09/21     My Sediments, Exactly
06/09/20     Is Your Brain Big Enough to Drive a Hydrogen Car?
06/09/19     Hey Kids: Stay in School and Don't Smoke
06/09/18     FMD, AK-47, and Balance
06/09/15     Independents Day
06/09/14     Your Spleen, My Spleen, We All Scream for . . .
06/09/13     Maps
06/09/12     Corrections
06/09/11     Jujitsu
06/09/08     Toothless Grin at the 18th Hole in Kabul
06/09/07     Earn Cash in Your Spare Time: Be a Poll Worker
06/09/06     On This Map, Almost All the States Are (in the) Red
06/09/05     Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld . . .
06/09/01     Better Coffee for a Labor Day Weekend
06/08/31     World's Deadliest Animal
06/08/30     Palestinian Self-Criticism
06/08/29     Once Again, A Positively Grand Time
06/08/28     Happy Planet
06/08/25     You'll Just Have to Feed the Hippo Something Else
06/08/24     MY Readers (and a Housing Note)
06/08/23     $2.42. Here - Take It
06/08/22     Electric Cars II
06/08/21     The Electric Car in Your Future
06/08/18     Hilton Internet Connection
06/08/17     It's WAY Broader than New Orleans
06/08/16     Natural Selection
06/08/15     Israel
06/08/14     But I Regress . . .
06/08/11     Back On Line
06/08/10     The Skinny from Two Real Estate Insiders
06/08/09     A Peculiar People
06/08/08     The Real Estate Recession - Ouch!
06/08/07     Cinnamon Tea and the 72 Vestal Virgins Who Await
06/08/04     Mr. Sabatin's Dunums
06/08/03     More Good Green News
06/08/02     Don't Sell Your Borealis
06/08/01     Lebanon
06/07/31     Walmart Goes Green
06/07/28     The Other Side of the Debate
06/07/27     Hot and Bothered
06/07/26     The Dog That Moos
06/07/25     We Got Stucco
06/07/24     Real Estate (Really)
06/07/21     Bob's Father Was An Ape
06/07/20     Billy Crystal on Global Climate Change
06/07/19     Underarm Deodorant
06/07/18     Inadvertant Andy Day
06/07/17     Your Slice of the Pie
06/07/14     Save July 29
06/07/13     One Other Movie
06/07/12     One More Movie and Frozen Peas
06/07/11     How My Cell Phone Battery Could Save Medicare $100 Billion
06/07/10     Extreme Cinema
06/07/07     A Constellation of Pies
06/07/06     Free Bumper Sticker, Your First-Class Dog
06/07/05     Give Me a Break (Through)
06/07/03     Let Freedom Ring
06/06/30     Good News and the Flag
06/06/29     Kathi Sees the Movie
06/06/28     Flag Burning
06/06/27     The Irony of the 1% Doctrine
06/06/26     A You-Tube, Two Stocks, and a Movie
06/06/23     Listen to the Poets of the Ocean
06/06/22     Merger!
06/06/21     Light Summer Reading
06/06/20     Create Your Own
06/06/19     Caffeine-Free Diet Coke? Are You Kidding?
06/06/16     See It Tonight
06/06/15     Honest Tea-V
06/06/14     Save $83,000 on Coffee
06/06/13     Loose Ends and Monkey Mail (Really)
06/06/12     Loose Ends and Monkey Mail
06/06/09     One Way We're Like Bulgarian Newlyweds
06/06/08     And Now THIS
06/06/07     Why Not Pull for These People?
06/06/06     More Monkey Mail
06/06/05     Two Inconvenient Truths
06/00/60     Two Inconvenient Truths
06/06/02     Marry Me?
06/06/01     The Tricycle MOVED
06/05/31     Sell Your Puts
06/05/30     The IQ of Bean Dip
06/05/26     Memorial Day
06/05/25     Seriously: See It
06/05/24     Scary Movie 5
06/05/23     Bogle Blog Bog Log Loge Ogle Gob Glob Gel Leg
06/05/22     Karl Rove Indicted Last Week?
06/05/19     Radioactive Bananas at the Center of the Earth
06/05/18     The Absolute Power of Bananas at the Center of the Earth
06/05/17     Treasure of the Sierra Madre
06/05/16     The Dancing Dean
06/05/15     One Cheer for Bananas, a Second for Shamos
06/05/12     Join the Chorus
06/05/11     Can You Tell Me Where the Camcorders Are?
06/05/10     Cutting through the Medicare Drug Thing
06/05/09     By Far the Biggest Stick. But . . .
06/05/08     Can You Beat Gas Prices?
06/05/05     Let's Put Dorian Gray's Picture on that Stamp
06/05/04     Our Financial Box
06/05/03     Siberia By the Sea
06/05/02     Can You Hear Me Now?
06/05/01     Self-Cleaning Government
06/04/28     This Changes Everything
06/04/27     Koko Speaks
06/04/26     SPAC Spec
06/04/25     Europe on $2,800 a Day
06/04/24     Not As Lame As You Think
06/04/21     33 More Months
06/04/20     Of Memoirs and Annuities
06/04/19     Time for an AndyDay
06/04/18     Moo
06/04/17     Clare and Lulu
06/04/14     Free Tax Prep
06/04/13     I Want My Money Back
06/04/12     Roses are Redolent; Violets, Pluperfect
06/04/11     Annuities
06/04/10     Barrels, Bibles, Bangles and Beads
06/04/07     So Why Don't YOU Run for Office?
06/04/06     When Would Jesus Bolt?
06/04/05     Shifting Republican Priorities
06/04/04     Without DeLay
06/04/03     Who Will Buy My Cookbook?
06/03/31     How to Manage (Your Mother-in-Law's) $250,000
06/03/30     Seduzione
06/03/29     Did I Tell You to Click There? Oy! I Meant HERE!
06/03/28     Call Home
06/03/27     Jugglers Gone Bananas
06/03/24     Wal-Mart, How to Manage $500,000, and a Great Speech
06/03/23     Fun and More Fun
06/03/22     I Before E Except After C
06/03/21     Is This the Dawn of the Next Bull Market?
06/03/20     Smarter to Book Two One-Ways?
06/03/17     Hey, Plastic Brain
06/03/16     A Must-Watch Video
06/03/15     The Man Who Ate Five Democrats
06/03/14     TOMORROW, The Man Who Ate Five Democrats
06/03/13     A Strong Voice
06/03/10     You'll NEED a Kitten After You Read This
06/03/09     Taking the Day Off
06/03/08     A Penny at 2% . . .
06/03/07     Making $7.8 Billion for Yale
06/03/06     FMD in Better Shape than USA?
06/03/03     How Your Government Works
06/03/02     A Talent Show and a Presidential Requirement
06/03/01     Could Your Kid Win $6 Million a Year Playing Bridge or Shooting Baskets?
06/02/28     The Latest From Bulgaria
06/02/27     Say Your Aunt Owns an Airbus A320
06/02/24     Leapin' Roombas!
06/02/23     Ooga Chakka, Ooga Chakka!
06/02/22     New Photo Breaks the Server
06/02/20     Geo. Washington and Demeaning of Demeanor
06/02/17     Up 79% - Now What?
06/02/16     This Will Probably Just Annoy You
06/02/15     So, When ARE We Going to Stand Together and Fight?
06/02/14     Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People
06/02/13     Supply Your Own N.R.A. Joke
06/02/10     But Let's Get Back to Self Interest
06/02/09     Girlawhirl
06/02/08     That List of 14 Criteria - Again
06/02/07     Every Steeler Got a $57,500 Watch
06/02/06     Pretty
06/02/03     The State of Your Stem Cells
06/02/02     A Bummer for Your Hummer
06/02/01     The Responsible Thing to Do Is to Borrow More
06/01/31     Haben Zie Ein Seinfeld, Por Favor?
06/01/30     Abramoff and Alito
06/01/27     Tidbits
06/01/26     Singing Nuns
06/01/25     Can't We All Just Get Along?
06/01/24     Bad
06/01/23     Medicare Part K
06/01/20     Attack of the Angry Chihuahuas
06/01/19     Gather Round My Luxury Sub
06/01/18     And You Think YOU Have Problems
06/01/16     Save $100 and a Loved One's Brain
06/01/13     You're Doing a Heck of a Job
06/01/12     A Grand Time - And Nobody Threw Up
06/01/11     The Optimists Expect a Loss of $38 Million
06/01/10     Beating the Market, Saving Democracy
06/01/09     A Book Review
06/01/06     Old News / New Observations
06/01/05     Sit Right Down and Write Yourself a Letter
06/01/04     Of Monomania and the Laffer Curve
06/01/02     How Do the Locusts Know?
05/12/29     A Secret about Your Heart
05/12/28     $32 a Share No Matter WHAT
05/12/27     Honey, Can You Get the Christmas Lights from Down in the Basement?
05/12/24     The Perfect December 26 Message
05/12/23     72 Hours - No Time for DeLay
05/12/22     Ad Homonym
05/12/21     Best Christmas Card of the Year
05/12/20     WWJD, TIVO, BOREF, NTMD
05/12/19     Days of the Week
05/12/16     Much To Say
05/12/15     Good, Ears, Carrots, and Cards
05/12/14     Sweet Carrots
05/12/13     Spaceship Earth
05/12/12     Good News If You Make $10 Million a Year in Dividends
05/12/09     Snow Day
05/12/08     On the Front Page in Norway . . .
05/12/07     TEEVEE, TIVO, N-T-M-D, HO, HO
05/12/06     Grades
05/12/05     Market Timing
05/12/02     One Republican's Thoughts
05/12/01     Ideas! Ideas! Ideas!
05/11/30     Joan's Dad
05/11/29     Good Deals and Turkey Drippings
05/11/28     Dow 11,000 and Your House
05/11/23     Thanksgiving Reruns
05/11/22     NTMD, BOREF, LUX
05/11/21     Confusing Drug Plans, Confusing War Plans
05/11/18     George Abbott Was Still WORKING at 107
05/11/17     Stocks and Real Estate
05/11/16     Three Great Broadway Shows
05/11/15     Party!
05/11/14     Borealis Makes Page Six
05/11/12     Holiday Gifts for Every Budget – II
05/11/11     051111 [and, a link to 051112]
05/11/10     Beating the Market (Really, I Think)
05/11/09     Why? Why? Why?
05/11/08     What's Really Going on with France
05/11/07     What's Really Going on with Libby
05/11/04     Free Samples, Buddhist Pizza, and a Theory
05/11/03     People In Grass Houses . . .
05/11/02     Free Money (Better Flush Than Fluish)
05/11/01     If Al Franken Had a Machine Gun in Diebold's Executive Suite
05/10/31     Boo!
05/10/28     FDR and Gandhi
05/10/27     Go Back and Read Mon-Tues-Weds
05/10/26     The Latest Borowitz Shocker
05/10/25     Tamiflu - Now There's a Drug with Legs
05/10/24     Remembering the Risks
05/10/21     Wilma!
05/10/20     Our Lack of Preparedness Could Make You Pull Out Your Hair
05/10/19     Bulls, Bears, and Woodpeckers
05/10/18     Priorities
05/10/17     More of Your Wisdom for an October Monday
05/10/13     Trojan.Vundo, No Less
05/10/14     Torjan.Vundo, No Less
05/10/14     Tips, Dips, and Quips
05/10/12     A Minister, A Priest, and a Rabbi
05/10/10     Profits and Corruption
05/10/07     Take These Jokes - Please!
05/10/06     Send Me Some Jokes
05/10/05     A DeLay in Our NTMD Profit?
05/10/04     Country Funds, Mutual Funds, and Tobacco
05/10/03     The Republicans' Deep Bench
05/09/30     Boring Money Stuff
05/09/29     Profit Taking- 11 a.m. Update
05/09/28     Books, Looks, and Schnooks
05/09/27     The Work Penalty
05/09/26     The Debt We Owe Republican Leadership
05/09/23     Press 1 for a Job, Press 2 for Pork, Press . . .
05/09/22     Of Debt and Penguins
05/09/21     Economy: Meet Astronomy
05/09/20     Debtors, Psychos, and Puts
05/09/19     Oink, Oink
05/09/16     Einstein's Bird
05/09/15     Tomorrow: Einstein's Bird. But Today . . .
05/09/14     Don't Sell Your Puts
05/09/13     Drugs
05/09/12     Marriage, Maher and More
05/09/09     They Had Telephones In 1898?
05/09/08     And We Got Hawaii!
05/09/07     Two Questions for You
05/09/05     We Found a Family to Help!
05/09/02     Falwell, FEMA, Floss, MRK
05/09/01     The Catastrophe; Jude Law; Saving Big on Dental Care; NTMD
05/08/31     Teeth, Science, Inflation
05/08/30     Spicing Up Your Index Funds
05/08/29     The Relative Merits of Teeth, Hummers, Puts and Shorts
05/08/26     TIAA-CREF and Dwarf Tossing
05/08/25     Amen
05/08/24     Tomorrow: Interesting Salt. But Today . . .
05/08/23     Slingbox
05/08/22     Drugs, Generics, Puts, Iraq
05/08/19     Funny Hats and Smelly Cheese
05/08/18     A Tale of Two Stocks
05/08/17     Look Who's Selling
05/08/16     Don't Sell Your Oil Stocks II
05/08/15     Don't Sell Your Oil Stocks
08/15/05     Don;t Sell Your Oil Stocks
05/08/12     Today's Column . . .
05/08/11     Further Thoughts from a Lifelong Republican
05/08/10     This Is Some Watermelon!
05/08/08     Into the Woods
05/08/05     China
05/08/04     More Evolution
05/08/03     Can Borealis Evolve into a $100 Stock?
05/08/02     Borealis!!!
05/08/01     Summer Browsing for a $5 Million Open Mind
05/07/29     Married to an FBI
05/07/28     I Think I'll Try Firefox
05/07/27     It's Showtime (and a Few Words about Cults)
05/07/26     5 Reasons to Switch to Firefox
05/07/25     Unless We Have Global Collapse . . .
05/07/22     Just a Few Quick Follow Ups
05/07/21     Marrying for Money
05/07/20     He Drank the Kool-Aid
05/07/19     NTMD, 'Nightline' Rocks, 8-Year Marriages . . .
05/07/18     Nitromed's 2 Cents
05/07/15     From a CIA Classmate
05/07/14     Whipsawed
05/07/13     Maudlin
05/07/12     You Gotta Read This Transcript
05/07/11     The F Word and the M Word
05/07/08     The Liberal Press
05/07/07     Oil -- Here Come the Chinese
05/07/06     A Tale of Two Stocks
05/07/05     Can Prices Really Climb? Real Estate in Rhyme
05/07/01     The Bubble
05/06/30     PPD, World Domination, and Thy Neighbor's Ass
05/06/29     PUCHA?
05/06/28     He Quits
05/06/27     News Flash: We've Been Conned
05/06/24     Barack Obama's Commencement Address
05/06/23     SYM, PPD and a Yak
05/06/22     America First
05/06/21     Saving Children's Lives Actually REDUCES Population Growth
05/06/20     DO NOT!
05/06/17     Quote, Unquote
05/06/16     Questioning Fundamentalism
05/06/15     Fascism Watch
05/06/14     Gone Fishing
05/06/13     Borealis and the Chairman
05/06/10     Exxon Calls the Tune
05/06/09     Whew! Uranium and Your Credit Card Junk Mail
05/06/08     Any Enviro Docs Out There?
05/06/07     Done Him Wvong
05/06/06     And The Best News Of All Is That They Got A Tax Cut!
05/06/02     Take the Red Pill
05/06/01     Cry for Me, Argentina
05/05/31     Crew, Lacrosse, and Your PriUPS
05/05/27     Love It Or Leave It
05/05/26     Marty Is Breathing Again
05/05/25     Of Quicken, Flypaper and Moyers
05/05/24     Those Were the Days, My Friend
05/05/23     911 for PBS
05/05/20     Newsweek
05/05/19     Bumper Sticker
05/05/18     Of Nobel Prizes and Priuses
05/05/17     What's Wrong with These Nobel Laureates?
05/05/16     Team America? Team Freedom? No, Team . . .
05/05/13     What's Wrong with This Picture?
05/05/12     We Like Ike
05/05/11     De Rekening
05/05/09     Gas Mileage and Fascism
05/05/06     Astonishing
05/05/05     One Wonders Two Things
05/05/04     Versus
05/05/03     Surgery
05/05/02     Are We Lagging Technologically?
05/04/29     The Link That Explains It All
05/04/28     The Prince and the Pauper
05/04/27     Pills for Your Porc and the Cinnamon Play (Really)
05/04/26     Pills for Your Porc and the Cinnamon Play
05/04/25     Barry Goldwater's View
05/04/22     The Meek? They're Just Lazy
05/04/21     Comforting the Comfortable
05/04/20     Is the News Bad in a Forest If No One Reports It?
05/04/19     It Gets Worse
05/04/18     Dow Update
05/04/15     Print Your 4868 Here
05/04/14     Energy Crisis? What Energy Crisis?
05/04/13     Apples, Sprouts, and Coffee
05/04/12     A Grand Time and a Grand Bargain
05/04/11     90% off the Philharmonic
05/04/09     Compassion
05/04/08     Compassion
05/04/07     And the Winner for the Best Economy Is . . .
05/04/06     Viewing Your Roof from Outer Space
05/04/05     Maureen Dowd on Curveball
05/04/04     Absolute Power
05/04/01     Islands in the Stream
05/03/31     David Bruce Has Done His Taxes
05/03/30     Basic Fairness
05/03/29     Do Home Prices Need a Living Will?
05/03/28     The View from Morgan Stanley
05/03/25     Neigh, A Living Will Is Not Enough
05/03/24     The $64,000 Question
05/03/23     From Mogambo to the Comptroller General
05/03/22     Click for Mogambo
05/03/21     How to Play the Real Estate Bubble
05/03/18     Visit the Monkeysphere
05/03/17     Free Calls, Free Trade
05/03/16     Dog, God, $$$, Flu, Hump
05/03/15     Paws with a Cause
05/03/14     Woof!
05/03/11     Minimum Wage Bankruptcies Sprouting Up All Over
05/03/10     Boil, Salt, Eat, and Click
05/03/09     A Global Minimum Wage
05/03/08     A Grand Time to be Rich and Powerful
05/03/07     Good Advice from Jezediah Squimatsu
05/03/04     The Little Engine that Could
05/03/03     Summer Shares
05/03/02     Computer Hell
05/03/01     Enough with the Rebates
05/02/28     Your Stocks, Rebates, Lint, Tivo - and House
05/02/25     Washing Your Dryer
05/02/24     TiVo and Rebate Mavens
05/02/23     The Hump and the Jump
05/02/22     Name Your Child Tivo and Get $100 Rebate
05/02/18     Visitor Discretion Advised
05/02/17     Finally, Some Financial Advice
05/02/16     More Free Software
05/02/15     That Hump
05/02/14     Maps and Boots
05/02/11     Over the Top
05/02/10     Dean LeBaron's View
05/02/09     We Could Borrow Another $150 Trillion
05/02/08     $900 Billion - for a CROWN?
05/02/07     Ah, Brave New World of Dentistry
05/02/04     He Keeps Talking About It, So So Will I
05/02/03     We Already HAVE Private Accounts
05/02/02     Jailing the Social Studies Class
05/02/01     His Grandpa INVENTED Social Security
05/01/31     Free Calls, Chinese CDs, Terror
05/01/28     Something for Democrats to Chew On
05/01/27     Guns, Butter, and Caviar
05/01/26     Would You Filch Your Daughter's College Fund?
01/05/26     Would You Filch Your Daughter's College Fund?
05/01/25     A Difference in Philosophy
05/01/24     Should You Bet Everything on the Dollar?
05/01/21     Chinese Money
05/01/20     Jeb
05/01/19     The Skype Is Falling! The Skype Is Falling!
05/01/18     In Diebold We Trust
05/01/14     A Lot More of Your Tax Dollars at Work
05/01/13     Words To Live By
01/05/13