Tag: General nonsense

The Dilbert Portfolio is up 7% in 2 days. I am now officially jaded and expect it to continue forever at the same pace. Dilbert Portfolio                   Shares         Price            Current Value         Cost        ChangeADM        500 …

Recently I asked for your future-trend-based stock recommendations. I decided to invest in the ones that sounded most reasonable and call it the Dilbert Portfolio. Apparently you people are as smart as you think you are. The portfolio is up 3% in one day.            Shares   …

People often ask me if I mind all the personal attacks that people leave in the comment section to my blog. If you’ve been following the blog, you know that I get a healthy dollop of personal abuse. My incoming e-mail is worse; it’s a virtual festival of Scott-bashing. My…

Your collective brains have come up with the following trend investment ideas since yesterday: CoalWiMaxGold and silverRFIDDesalinizationFuneral homesNursing homesTattoo removalOLED (Organic Light Emitting Diodes) Does anyone know companies that would benefit from those trends without being the obvious ones that are already bid up, or big conglomerates that have too…

I wonder what would happen if we used our collective Dilbert-Blog-Reader brain to come up with stock investment tips. Let’s find out. I don’t believe it’s wise to pick individual stocks based on factors such as the quality of management, quality of products, or projected cash flow. First, those things…

A reader of this blog is asking for some help on his college class. What better way to tighten up a theory than to let you jackals rip it to pieces? His e-mail to me… Scott, I am a student at Shippensburg University in PA.  I am going to be…

I create my Sunday comics on Sunday, for no particular reason except that the phone doesn’t usually ring in the morning. I need some help on today’s masterpiece. It features a character who only has three stories that he repeats in a loop. So far I have two: “Why you…

When people say America attacked Iraq “for money” or “for oil,” they’re talking about two different but related concepts: 1. President Bush attacked Iraq to make his evil capitalist overlord friends richer. 2. President Bush attacked Iraq to protect the overall economy. While I do not approve of starting wars…

I note that many of you believe that President Bush and his corporate buddies wanted to attack Iraq because of some personal profit motive. You called me naïve for thinking otherwise. I’ll agree that greed is a prime motivator for people in general, and that there’s no such thing as…

According to world public opinion and the American government, the most powerful military force in history had at least 13 completely different and compelling reasons to attack Iraq. Saddam was one unlucky despot. And STILL he didn’t see it coming. Here’s a sampling of President’s Bush’s many reasons, according to…

I don’t understand the theory that we attacked Iraq for oil. Can one of you geniuses explain that to the rest of us? I like a good conspiracy theory as much as the next person. And I certainly think governments are capable of doing bad things. But I don’t understand…

If you know what occam’s razor is, you can skip this paragraph. According to Wikipedia, Occam’s razor states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. For Skeptics, occam’s…

If you work in an office, think about the most annoying co-worker, subordinant, or boss you have at the moment. Then tell me the one thing that he/she did most recently to set you off. (No long background stories please, just the behavior that got you.) I will be selecting…

I just saw a TV show about famous alleged psychic Edgar Cayce. Back in the 1920s he was putting himself into trances and making lots of predictions that – according to this program – turned out to be true. One prominent example they gave is that he predicted the exact…

I’ve always been curious about how a person can believe that God spoke to Moses and not become a Muslim. Allow me to explain my confusion. For those who are not up to speed on your comparative religion, let me oversimplify it for you. Jews believe Moses communicated with God…