lemons
what do you do when you buy a hot stock that turns out to be a dud? or a nice car that turns out to be a lemon? think jaguar xj5. if you're like me and 99.44% of the rest of the population, you keep it. you keep throwing good money after bad. for some reason people have a very difficult time admitting that they made a bad investment. that they screwed up. that they got hoodwinked. sometimes you can let a dumb idea just go away. like the war on drugs. others aren't so easy. like iraq. the best we can do is to declare victory and get out.