These past few weeks I've been quietly watching Tesla stock go up, and up.

And up.

And in good measure thanks to conservative investors; the kind who watch Fox News, pay attention to Sarah Palin, or believe Mitt Romney, or David Stockman for that matter, or Jim Cramer.

I don't like Susan Rice as a candidate for Secretary of State.

Besides being a lightweight, at least 1/3 of her portfolio is invested in fossil fuel companies, including at least $300,000 in TransCanada, the company behind Keystone XL, the very pipeline the Secretary of State would need to approve.

So thumbs down on Rice from my corner. And the less I say about Obama, the better.

So Abbas, as moderate a Palestinian as one could hope for, achieved at the UN global recognition that there is such a thing as a Palestinian people and Palestinian state. The victory was overwhelming; 138 to 9 and not even a reliable US ally like the UK, one of the 40 abstentions, was willing to vote against it.

This is the place for them.

Because Gangnam Style (marginally NSFW) is too low-brow for The Forvm.

And because they can build bigger missiles now.

Every morning, I check Bloomberg and Reuters for news. This is party because their coverage is weighed towards news that will have economic and market impact, and I have an old habit of following the markets. But also it is because both are easy to read on my iPhone, while the New York Times, my other MSM source, isn't.

Because the RNC had its thread and I am fighting for thread equality...

Yes kids, that means nobody born since the nineteen thirties.

With that in mind, consider the string of space exploration events that have happened (and that nobody has bothered to diary about), in the past few weeks:

So this the second time I read about the Treasury moving towards making one of those historic "mistakes" that will come back to bite the American tax payer quite hard a few years from now.

The bad idea: floating rate bonds.

I must confess I've never done LSD, or any other drug beyond caffeine and alcohol, and a couple of cigars, lifetime.

So, I am pretty boring in that sense. I've never felt a need to get away from reality or anything like that. My mind is already a pretty elastic place that would probably confuse a few people, could they visit.