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Look Who’s Got The Happy Gene

February 3, 2021February 3, 2021

“Sunshine” — if you’ve ever seen Barney Frank on TV — is likely not the nickname that first leapt to mind.  Indeed, I’ve had the privilege of knowing the former chair of the House Financial Services Committee for more than half a century and can’t imagine there was a time anyone ever called him that — unless ironically.

Which makes Barney’s inaugural column in The Hill this week all the more noteworthy.

He is optimistic:


. . . I believe the outcome of Donald Trump’s malign, ridiculous assault on the election results is evidence not of the fragility of our democracy but of its durability . . .


Things are looking up.



Or maybe I just feel that way because:

> PRKR jumped another 23% yesterday, quadruple its price from five weeks ago (but don’t sell much if you bought it with money you can truly afford to lose because there’s a reasonable chance of good news in May, in their trial against Qualcomm).

> CTHR jumped 40% yesterday, much of it in after-hours trading, to triple its price last March.  I have no idea what’s going on, but something seems to be — it traded more than 5 million shares, 25 times its daily average.  Time to lighten up, I guess.



Monday, I linked to a televangelist who couldn’t stop laughing at the preposterous notion Biden had won.

Here’s a question:  Reforming the God vote: Can evangelical Christians be redeemed from bigotry and hatred?

(And here’s a suggestion: Don’t try to change someone else’s mind. Instead, help them find their own motivation to change.  A good read.)

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