In other news (apolitical thread)...

[FearlessF]

[Cincydawg]

I own a small bit of course of Coke, OXY, and Apple.  Coke and OXY have not been terrific investments over time, they are "OK".  Apple for a while was pretty terrific, stagnated over the last year or so, which is OK.  Of course his "style" is not really based on finding terrific investments that double or triple in short order.

I wonder if he owns much Oracle.

[847badgerfan]

[Cincydawg]

I glanced at some headlines from the Italian wedding recently, I didn't read anything about it.  Billionaires bald dude marries decent looking not super young female in expensive soire.  OK, fine with me.  I blame someone for something though.

So many things take fairly prominent space in our "news" media, like this one, that really don't impact any of "us" regular folks.  Some movie star says something bad about Trump.  OK, fine, I don't care.  At all.  

I use "The Hill" a lot for basic news now because they minimize this sort of guff relatively speaking.  The various business news sites do the same, the focus on "news you can use", mostly.  The CNN web site has become nearly useless now, probably half their stories are firewalled now.  And yes, I like to see what stories they are featuring, some with Fox News.com.  The Allsides.com site is decent, a bit sparse, mostly links, which is OK with me, I can pretty well guess how various news sites are handling "news".

Humans often are quite interested in "Other People's Business" that doesn't affect them, at all.  Gossip.  What some king or queen did or said.  Meh.

[FearlessF]

would have been better if Bezos would have spent 30X as much on the wedding - trickle down

[Gigem]

Somewhat of a scary day for me yesterday.  Me and my two boys were wade fishing in East Matagorda Bay and he stepped on a stingray.  Bad hit, he was in severe pain.  We loaded him up and took him to the ER in Bay City, about a 20 minute boat ride and 20 minute vehicle ride.  They had to give him strong medicine for the pain and anti-biotics.  He's doing OK today.  It's always a known danger when wade fishing that getting hit by a ray is not a pleasant experience.  

[utee94]

Oh man that sucks, glad he's okay.

I'd been swimming in the Gulf for decades and never even heard of stingray stings, until I stepped on one about 4 years ago in Port Aransas and it got me right in the top of the foot .  Just unbelievable pain.  I googled treatments and the consistent one was-- hot water.  Like, really really hot water.  So I boiled some water, let it cool a bit, then stuck my foot in it, and it actually worked.  I had to do that every 20 minutes or so, and I also took ibupforen.  After 2-3 hours the pain subsided and I was okay.  A couple of margaritas also helped...