BillHeise | November 19, 2011
I just posted this on a friend of mine’s blog in response to his defense of the Occupy Wall Street movement. While I agree with him and the Occupy Wallstreeters that there is something wrong with the inequalities in income in America, I also feel that there the OWS people are displaying something of a [...]
BillHeise | November 2, 2011
This is a response to this article by my Facebook friend, Adam Michael Luebke, who is, like many Americans, upset by the lack of response to the Wall Street crisis that erupted in 2008. Adam had been attacked as a ‘no-solutions’ guy by none other than Roseanne Barr. Adam’s solution had been to “take back” [...]
BillHeise | October 30, 2011
The world as recently learned of the death of Steve Jobs. He is being hailed as a hero who virtually created the world of technology we live in single-handedly. He started the first personal computer company in his parent’s garage, took it public, and drove the computer industry with his relentless vision, not on the [...]
BillHeise | September 29, 2011
I was talking the other day about how no one ever asks me how I make money in the stock market, while everybody seems obsessed with placing me in a ‘proper’ political position on a 2-dimensional line where I am either conservative of liberal. According to this model, everyone initially agrees that I make good [...]
BillHeise | September 21, 2011
I have been preparing a business plan all summer for my next book. This will mean sending out press releases, and I want to make sure that people know that I mean them no harm in my book, which I have titled Art in the Age of Talk Radio. The premise of the book is [...]
BillHeise | June 7, 2011
I was writing about my bets in the stock market this morning, and I wanted to tell you why I bet the way I did. But since it’s going to take me a couple days to get my article ready for publication, I wanted to make my bet public before the action of the stock [...]
BillHeise | March 9, 2011
I like David Brooks, the moderately conservative columnist for the New York Times, but he’s missed the point in this week’s column on ‘The New Humanism.’ In that column, he writes: We emphasize things that are rational and conscious and are inarticulate about the processes down below. We are really good at talking about material [...]
BillHeise | March 5, 2011
I had a thought this morning, so I thought I’d share it with you. I was thinking about how I don’t want to get murdered, because if someone murders me, then my life is over. You probably are concerned with getting murdered, as well, so we have that as common ground on which to build [...]
BillHeise | November 21, 2010
I consider myself an intellectual, so, yes, I expect some blowback to my assertion that I listen to Rush Limbaugh. Even my conservative parents, who agree with him on economic issues, can’t stand him. They think he’s too conservative on social issues and too full of himself in general. They prefer Dennis Miller, who is [...]
BillHeise | November 3, 2010
My parents raised me telling me that it wasn’t polite to talk about politics or religion. As a result, I have measured my life on other (I would say more lasting and important) matters. My family is by far the most important thing in my life. I have been married to the love of my [...]
