It’s hard to watch the Stanley Tonight show without asking yourself at some point, “Is this guy for real?” Talk-show hosts are odd, as a rule, and Stanley Siegel is the excess to the rule. …
Thursday, May 28
Thursday, May 21
Russell adds that he thinks knowing which stock to buy is not difficult. “I think that point’s overdone. If the market’s right, it’s really no problem picking stocks. You can buy a good mutual fund.
A waitress at a local cafe greeted an unexpected shower — not a Carolina monsoon, mind you, just a drizzle — with the awe of a Hawaiian contemplating her first snow. She nearly dropped our tostadas.
Thursday, May 14
We sat in an office in his church in Santee. It was a weekday morning. Phones rang. Children could be heard singing in the student church school. Men and women returned, sunburned, from picketing an …
I was intrigued by one woman who kept saying to her fussy two-year-old child, “If you don’t shut up, I’m gonna bust you one, little girl.” She said it with as much affection as anger.
Thursday, May 7
On Sunday, April 19, the last known California condor was snatched from the wild. Depending on your viewpoint, this event was a great tragedy that marked the extinction of the wild condor or a great …