Mergers are a nightmare. I'm sure everybody has thought about it but half of the reason that airlines like US read more

Mergers are a nightmare. I'm sure everybody has thought about it but half of the reason that airlines like US Airways find themselves in this position is that previous mergers have not gone entirely well.

Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing--producing unnecessary garbage and consuming read more

Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing--producing unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy. Although in the industrial world bottled water is often no healthier than tap water, it can cost up to 10,000 times more.

When you select a spinner on a (pitch) that helps spin, you expect a little bit more than that.

When you select a spinner on a (pitch) that helps spin, you expect a little bit more than that.

I'm sure that local communities probably get tired of people coming to them and saying this wasn't installed right.

I'm sure that local communities probably get tired of people coming to them and saying this wasn't installed right.

The guys didn't even know Wood River's record. I made sure to tell them that Wood River was a good read more

The guys didn't even know Wood River's record. I made sure to tell them that Wood River was a good team, a team that is going to come in here and give us a good fight. They beat us in this tournament every year. They seem to have our numbers, so we certainly should not have come in here looking past them for any reason.

I didn't expect to deliver a baby in the parking lot. It happened in about 12 or 15 minutes, and read more

I didn't expect to deliver a baby in the parking lot. It happened in about 12 or 15 minutes, and it was over with. It happened so fast I didn't have time to think.

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth read more

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

It's not completely finalized, but I talked with Steve (Wednesday) and he has given me a proxy to go ahead. read more

It's not completely finalized, but I talked with Steve (Wednesday) and he has given me a proxy to go ahead. It's not really 'official' official, but the building is on hold, and we've got the date (from Showtime), so we're just about there.

Our view is that we get above-trend growth and that will cause the Fed to raise rates to 5 percent.

Our view is that we get above-trend growth and that will cause the Fed to raise rates to 5 percent.