New Stuff for You ...

Stock Market Comments - Posted June 21, 2009

Updated YoYo Estimates - Posted June 21, 2009

How the FED Creates Money - Posted October 19, 2008

Natural Gas Supply-Demand Charts - Posted September 17, 2008

A few pictures from the 35th Annual World Championship BBQ Goat Cook-Off held in Brady over Labor Day Weekend. Posted August 31, 2008.

McCulloch County Courthouse Restoration report from Ed Hernandez - posted August 27, 2008

Brady Trade Days report from Jo Ann Dalgard - posted August 27, 2008

Brady Poet Jo Ann Dalgard joins Sense & Nonsense plus more news and comment from Ed Hernandez. This is "hometown" Brady just the way we like it - June 30, 2008.

Piotroski Stock Evaluation Spreadsheet from Bill Maguire - Posted June 16, 2008

Market Sense Links to info - Posted May31, 2008 

Spur Ride - posted May26, 2008. Laura Harper, wife and mother of Cavalry Scouts serving in Iraq, gives an account of earning her Spurs.

A new section on Brady, Texas, - initiated May 22, 2008 - there isn't much there yet. It is intended to be a place where citizens of McCulloch County can present the things they find interesting, informative or amusing. We'll have to see how it works out.

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How Can That Be?

When there is significant difference between what we think and what we experience, then something is wrong. The truth about ourselves and the world around us is not what we think, feel, hope, or believe. The truth is in what we do and the results those actions produce. The trick is to distinguish between Sense and Nonsense.

Believing nonsense is like believing that large objects can fit within smaller objects just because Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvard drew a picture that makes it appear possible. (copied from "Incredible Visual Illusions" by Al Seckel) Sometimes it is amusing to be deceived for short periods of time. Surprises are nice.

But, if we try to make daily decision based on things that simply can't be true, the results are frustrating. Things don't work out the way we think they should. At that point, people have a tendency to blame someone else rather than examine the basis of their beliefs. The result is usually resentment, strife and failure.

Here we will take a look at a few popular misconceptions. Most come down to the belief that there is a way to get and keep something of value without earning it. There is always a price to pay, now or later, one way or another. To believe otherwise is nonsense.