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Major congratulations to my niece Stacy who was sworn in as a Wisconsin lawyer yesterday. This follows her admission to the Minnesota bar several months ago. Hope we don’t need your services too often Stacy!

Hey, it’s been a lotta fun. Especially gotta admire the way you lowered the bar to the level where a mentally-troubled weasel could leap over it. Thanks so much for knowing when to go. Don’t let the door hit ya in the ass on the way out!

February in Wisconsin can tend to be quite a long month. We’ve all generally reached our limit in putting up with the cold weather. Things are usually at their grayest as we see some thawing and lose our snow cover. And winter usually works up a snow storm or extra-hard cold snap to remind us [...]

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a former stock trader and now author of a couple of great books – Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan. I’ve read both books and they’re guaranteed to make you think. They’re especially timely in their discussion of how the stock markets work, or really, don’t work. Taleb recently did [...]