Attention U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donahue: It’s the pretty blue one, third rock in from the middle.
Here’s a bumper sticker I wrote today, with the sentiments expressed in their proper configuration:
There’s always something to howl about.
Attention U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donahue: It’s the pretty blue one, third rock in from the middle.
Here’s a bumper sticker I wrote today, with the sentiments expressed in their proper configuration:
Daniel, the real estate zebra says:
That about sums it up.
Who ever said you weren’t a fan of brevity?
July 15, 2009 — 4:58 pm
daniel says:
reminds me of another motto: privatize success,socialize failure
July 15, 2009 — 5:48 pm
Brian Brady says:
Can you redesign with the dog logo, and a BloodhoundBlog URL on the bottom, so I can set up a store?
July 15, 2009 — 8:04 pm
Thomas Johnson says:
Can you redesign with the dog logo, and a BloodhoundBlog URL on the bottom, so I can set up a store?
Proceeds to Cathleen’s favorite no-kill shelter?
July 17, 2009 — 9:15 am
Sam Chapman says:
Love it! Too bad the media won’t believe it.
July 17, 2009 — 1:09 pm
Louis Cammarosano says:
I am not sure ALL failures should be stigmatized.
The right to fail and the glorious flame out are to be encouraged. Fear of failure AND fear of being stigmatized for failing would discourage risk taking.
Risk taking is essential for progress as long as the risk taker him or her self is taking resonsiblity for the success or failure of the endeavor.
I think what you are getting out is the failures where no real risk is taken if the government is just standing by waiting to cover the losses from the failure.
July 17, 2009 — 7:43 pm
Brian Brady says:
“Fear of failure AND fear of being stigmatized for failing would discourage risk taking”
Greg Swann and I talked about this last week. Stigmatizing failure is useful inasmuch as it forces investors (or lenders) to ask the question, “Why?”. Failure is a cogent instructor to the apt pupil. That apt pupil will celebrate his failure rather than feel stigmatized because he WANTS to answer that question…
…but you said that here:
“Risk taking is essential for progress as long as the risk taker him or her self is taking responsibility for the success or failure of the endeavor.”
July 20, 2009 — 7:12 pm
Greg Swann says:
Urf. Like this:
DON’T stigmatize success!
DON’T celebrate failure!
The purpose of Socialism is to invert the moral order so that the producers of intellectual and economic values are denounced and ultimately enslaved while their despoilers are comforted and ultimately enthroned. To say that this is ass-backwards is to mouth the understatement of all millennia. The good news: Socialism cannot ever work. The bad news: Millions of innocents are killed every time organized criminals try to make Socialism work. Millions! Their corpses form ranges of man-made mountains all across Europe, Asia and Africa. As a species, we are scrupulous about one thing only: We are ever-vigilant in our resolve to learn nothing from our past experiences with this philosophical poison.
July 20, 2009 — 7:31 pm