Ideas for songs come to me from many sources. First I was watching The Hobbit with my sister-in-law, Bonny Matley, and she remarked… “Cowboys and wizards never lose their hats.” I laughed and knew right away that I would use her words in a song. A few days later I...
The sunken USS Mohawk has opened its first underwater dive accessible only exhibition, giving diving enthusiasts an exciting dimension to their next dive. The USS Mohawk is a 165-foot World War II cutter, which was sunk in July 2012 about 28 nautical miles off Sanibel...
Kissimmee, Florida hosted the 2013 Quidditch World Cup last weekend which was won by the University of Texas. Eighty teams and 1,600 athletes from across the United States, France, Canada and Mexico competed for the title of the world’s best Quidditch team....
The US Federal Reserve’s policy of buying debt instruments with money it’s creating out of thin air – currently at the extraordinary rate of more than a trillion dollars’ worth every year – is the right thing to do, because it doesn’t add to the net amount of US debt...
Now the uncertainty of the US presidential contest has been removed, investment markets have shifted their focus to other major uncertainties – the “fiscal cliff,” the European comic opera, the China slowdown. I suspect they will continue to weigh on the markets for a...
