Tramping Through the Tulips with Blodget

Tramping Through the Tulips with Blodget

Let's state the obvious; writers have to write. They have to write something, anything, in order to be called writers and to be paid as writers. That's what they do. And with today's technology, what we end up with is a lot of noise. We're used to it. Nevertheless, Henry Blodget's recent column in Business Insider, while easily falling into the useless....


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