Random Rants and Raves #62
Knowing some people are rooting against you is almost as much motivation for success as knowing people are rooting for you.
I've often heard people say that, if they knew they only had a short time to live, they would go out and live it up during their remaining time on earth. However, I wonder how many people would actually do this. I bet many of them would become so paralyzed by fear and depression that they wouldn't be able to do anything, even the things that they had been doing.
Those who are pushing for more funding for HIV/AIDS prevention want to have things both ways. They claim that the only ways to contract HIV are through unprotected sex, intravenous drug use, and blood transfusions. However, they are now asking that everyone be tested annually for HIV. Why should everyone be tested if only a subset of the population is at risk?
I once had a college government professor who had a bad habit of spitting when he pronounced words that began with the letter "c". No one wanted to sit on the first or second rows when he was lecturing on civil rights and civil liberties. :-)
I don't understand why local TV news crews feel the need to shove a microphone in someone's face right after one of their relatives has been murdered or has died in a tragic accident. Other than grief and/or anger, what kind of a reaction are they possibly expecting from that person?
Cop shows and courtroom dramas continue to thrive on prime time TV despite the fact that every possible plot line of those genres has probably already been exhausted. I'm amazed that people continue to watch them anyway.
If you still do your taxes the old fashioned way like I do, always remember to wait until you have completed your form to your satisfaction before affixing the label. You wouldn't want to have to try to remove the label from a form that you have fouled up.
The performance of any investment method will always be much better during "back testing" or "paper trading" than during actual practice.
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