Me, I want all the Machine Ghost posts I can get.

Also don't think newcomers are that fragile.

Tex, the mistreatment of your mother was horrifying. I wish you would send that hospital a "scary" letter to shake them up. Maybe you already did. The more I experience and learn about this country's health-care system, the more it seems that what I previously assumed was the result of stu...

I find Facebook pretty entertaining. It was harder for me to get with the Twitter program, but now I like it too. I use Facebook for access to updates from friends, frenemies (I have a lot more of these than actual friends) and favorite writers and artists, not so much to discuss my own tedious doin...

Breaking Bad is right up there with the Sopranos for me.

Other favorites: Dexter, The Shield, The Wire, Mad Men.

Reserved at the library, and looking foward to reading.

Ever since my husband was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus (one of the scarier in terms of survival rate) six years ago, I've spent a lot of time researching health and diet. I was most influenced by reading Anticancer by David Servan-Schreiber, which emphasizes the benefits of a vegetable-ori...

A month or so.

We were lucky and never lost power. I'm glad to have had a dress rehearsal for preparedness, and appreciate the suggestions.

We're in the path (lower Westchester county, NY), and this is my list: *enough Kirkland canned wild salmon for a week *produce ditto *Poland Spring water ditto *two five-gallon bottles filled with tap water *super-premium dog food for two weeks (the pupper always comes first here) *lots of ice for i...

From random Googling, it looks like Mao was responsible for more genocide than anyone else in the 20th century: Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50) 49-78,000,000 Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1932-39) 23,000,000 (the purges plus Ukraine's famine) Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1939-1945) 12,000,00...

Kevin, that was great; really enjoyed it.

Well done.

stone wrote: The PP is a subversive way to wriggle past a carefully crafted system of cryptic wealth transference .

What Tex said.

Stone, that is a beautiful one-sentence summary of things.

EDV question: Two-thirds of our retirement money is stuck in a restricted Fidelity account. We can move up to 50% of that into BrokerageLink, but even there, we cannot buy ETFs or individual stocks, only funds. (My husband is a programmer at a big law firm.) With lots of help here, I chose FLBAX (Fi...

I believe I can deliver on that front.

I know nothing about platinum.

Do you favor individual platinum miners, PLTM (platinum-miner index) or PPLT (physical platinum shares)?

ahhrun, thanks so much for the timely, detailed response!

Hey, new record (51)!

Very impressive discipline, cabronjames.

I take it you're not buying.

Or are you?

ahhrunforthehills, I will ask my favorite question, the answer to which is always far more interesting to me than anyone's opinions about what is wrong with this country. (I assure you, I think there's plenty wrong with it, but my husband's job means we have to live near NYC; and even if there were ...

It sounds plausible and from an intelligent source, but in the end he just stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. Ahahaha! Such a smart, funny group here. I regret that in the past, I bought a book or two of Ferri's. They are long gone (things have to earn their keep around here), and that's n...

McGraw-Hill = MHP.

Lt. Bailey: Raising my voice back there.... means I have a human thing called an adrenaline gland.

Mr. Spock: It sounds most inconvenient. Have you considered having it removed?

Star Trek, "The Corbomite Maneuver"

doodle (and all), what website do you like for pre-market info?