“You Would Be Less of a Goon If You Could Recognize the Goonishness Within Yourself.”

Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:

By your own definition, there are no goons, except for you.

I have goonishness within me. I was a Buy-and-Holder myself for several years, as you know. The killer is that, even after I had put forward my famous post of the morning of May 13, 2002, I still believed in Buy-and-Hold. I realized that the Buy-and-Holders got the retirement numbers wrong. But I still believed in the strategy that caused them to do that. Beat that one, you know?

And of course you saying that I am the only Goon is itself a goonish thing to say. You would be less of a Goon if you could recognize the goonishness within yourself. Being a human is hard!

Here’s the song:

My best wishes to you, dear friend.

Rob the Goon