What on Earth is going on with Tesla’s design department? As a point of reference, here is the Aztec, which for decades I considered the ugliest car ever to roll off an assembly line.

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What on Earth is going on with Tesla’s design department? As a point of reference, here is the Aztec, which for decades I considered the ugliest car ever to roll off an assembly line.

Many years ago, when I was in high school, I made an odd goal for myself: that every moment of my life, when viewed in retrospect, would be an embarrassment to me. Hey, so far, so good! No, seriously. That’s what I told myself. The reason was because, in my view, if I was more or less on a general path of improvement through my life, I should be able to look in the rear-view mirror and shake my head at the Tim I saw behind me.
Although I hardly view the shortcomings of my past, which are legion, with any kind of delight or achievement, I was reminded of this peculiar adolescent pact because of something I realized about myself which I’ve had wrong my entire life.
(more…)As I had hoped, I am “4 for 4” on profitable days this week, in spite of all the insanity. On every one of those four days, I was showing a loss (sometimes a deep one), but my shorts healed themselves nicely. As the ES below shows, this market has become all smoke, no fire. The truth pushes things down, and lies push things back up, and we’re at a stalemate.

In a feeble attempt to actually seem fair and balanced, I wanted to offer up a sincere long idea: Centerpoint Energy (CNP) which appears to have fully retraced to a long-term supporting trendline.
