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San Diego firms Apricus, Innovus tackle male and female sex problems
I believe in science in most matters, but sometimes magic works best. I suspect the traditional cure for wives' sexual dysfunction, finding a boyfriend, will only gain popularity if these drugs work.— April 11, 2013 11:11 p.m.
San Diego firms Apricus, Innovus tackle male and female sex problems
Poets might be more helpful than doctors in curing these problems. Tip: One should never whisper the word "dysfunction' in a woman's ear. Also: Abelard was so seriously challenged in a physical sense that Viagra wouldn't help him, yet even today, as we speak, he heats a woman somewhere to satisfaction. The Lizard knows.— April 11, 2013 7:42 p.m.
Shocker: nation adds only 88,000 jobs in March
We should remember that 100 years ago, manufacturing jobs were not well paid, but workers fought and won better pay. The service sector, and other low paid workers need to win better pay to restore demand to the economy. A higher minimum wage would be a good start, along with a return to the payroll tax cuts that ended on the first of the year. Since one auto worker can assemble over one hundred cars in a year, as one example, there's no way manufacturing jobs can create enough demand for product, these workers will always make more than they buy. Hotel workers, restaurant workers and other low paid jobs need the buying power to get manufacturing up and going again.— April 6, 2013 7:55 p.m.
Bubbles: Greenspan, Bernanke could have learned something in San Diego
I'm for the Fed printing money, and the government helping by running a deficit, but government insured banks shouldn't even accept stocks as collateral, let alone play the market themselves. The Fed is pumping money where there is inflation already. Government chartered banks should consider the public good, staking stock gamblers is bad for the country. And while we are dreaming, perhaps banks could finance industrial expansion here in the US. Incredible as it may seem, companies once borrowed from banks for purposes other than stock manipulation.— March 14, 2013 4:07 a.m.
Bubbles: Greenspan, Bernanke could have learned something in San Diego
My concern now is that the banks are now playing the market, and if stocks fall they may take the banks with them. That a bank can make an equity play in a company considered too risky presumably, for a direct loan, is symptom of the general insanity. In the wild days of 1929 banks loaned to stock players on margin, but didn't play themselves. The banks executed their margin calls promptly and profitably, and ended 1929 cashed up and ready to loan. The banks failed three years later. This time the banks and stocks will collapse together. I call it the bear hug. Of course, like the song about cocaine, "They say it will kill me but they don't say when.", I don't expect to persuade any thrill seekers wishing to ride the market.— March 13, 2013 2:56 p.m.
In Miller obit, U-T misses historic sleaze story
Though the Akiki case was a scandal, it was not corruption. Akiki and Miller were victims of the Pentecostal movement, which was presenting pseudo documentaries about satanism to church members. Miller fell because his staff believed their minister and church doctrine, and that same doctrine perverted the minds of children into false accusations. Sometimes the straight arrow finds the wrong target. Smith and Alessio were the true measure of the man. Ed Miller took on the most powerful men in town, men who could get the president to pick up the phone, and brought them to justice. His family should be proud.— March 5, 2013 7:33 p.m.
For-profit education stocks hit on legislation fear
For some the price is secondary. If these schools made their money from wealthy parents, and grateful alumni there would be no problem, but too much comes from federal money diverted from more worthy colleges, with the usual quasi bribery of Congress and regulators.— March 5, 2013 6:50 p.m.
For-profit education stocks hit on legislation fear
The deception in the sales pitch, for the schools and the loans to pay for them, are the real scandal. Some are helped by these for profits, but they pitch themselves to students they can't help. I suspect our local young veterans might be part of the reason so many for profit schools are located here. We should get the word out to those leaving the Navy and Marines locally of the many education choices available to those with the GI Bill, along with warnings, like the article, of the dodgy nature of some for profit schools.— March 5, 2013 2:03 p.m.
For-profit education stocks hit on legislation fear
Our excellent adult education programs should be given some fraction of Bridgepoint's advertising budget to market themselves. Bridgepoint may be raiding the public purse, but not on the level of defense and oil etc.. The greater scandal is the failing students seduced by ads on daytime work hour TV away from training they could complete, into a bizarre scheme to plunder the treasury and investors, Everyone can't complete college, but everyone can learn if they have desire and help. The Bridgepoint cheat concerns more than money.— March 4, 2013 4:08 p.m.
David Copley yacht for sale
If the Copleys were tragedy, Manchester is farce.— January 29, 2013 2:03 p.m.