by Piper Bayard | Jul 20, 2011 | Amusing Ourselves and Hopefully You
By Piper Bayard and Jay Holmes Childhood’s end. The final Harry Potter. As Holmes and I look around, we find that, with Deathly Hallows, Part II out in the theaters, we are surrounded by fans in various stages of the Kubler-Ross grief process. Denial – “No. This can’t...
by Piper Bayard | Jul 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
By Piper Bayard and Jay Holmes US Airways CEO Doug Parker has earned the honor of having his otherwise pathetic existence being mentioned on our web page. Doug’s claim to infamy is based on the fact that he collects a $2.8 million paycheck as the CEO of US Airways. US...
by Piper Bayard | Jun 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
By Piper Bayard and Jay Holmes Here at Bayard & Holmes, we’ve created the Cyber Smack, because some folks need a good cyber-smackin’. A Cyber Smack is the cyber equivalent of a smack upside the head for being egregiously stupid or ignorant. Neither of us is...
by Piper Bayard | Jun 13, 2011 | Life and Death
By Piper Bayard About ten days ago, my son and I went diving at Blue Hole. You may know of the Great Blue Hole. That crystal clear, underwater sinkhole off the coast of Belize. A diving Mecca teeming with ocean life from hammerhead sharks to sea turtles, worth the...
by Piper Bayard | Jun 7, 2011 | Foreign Affairs
By Jay Holmes Last week, a rocket hit Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s personal mosque at his home in Yemen. It killed three of Saleh’s bodyguards and his personal Imam. Saleh and others were wounded and flown to Saudi Arabia for treatment. The...
by Piper Bayard | May 8, 2011 | Foreign Affairs
By Jay Holmes United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan recently declared that the Detroit, Michigan school system is a national disgrace. He is right. Some politically sensitive types in Detroit were offended by this. They should, instead, be offended by their...
by Piper Bayard | May 5, 2011 | Foreign Affairs
By Jay Holmes The spice trade has dried up, and the 24,000,000 well-armed people in “The South” suffer an unemployment rate of close to 70%. The fragile economy relies on Yemen’s very limited oil supplies, and these are expected to dry up by 2017....
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