An interesting random news story essentially picked today’s stock for me. I had attended a presentation for L&L Energy (LLEN) last month, but I didn’t see anything about the stock that indicated to me that it was ready to take off. Then I saw an August 10 PR Newswire story announcing that Norman Mineta—a former U.S. Secretary of Transportation under George W. Bush and Secretary of Commerce under Bill Clinton—had joined L&L Energy’s board of directors. If this was a cheap trick intended to borrow a little credibility from a former high-ranking official of the U.S. government, I have...
