CALLING FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS…CALLING FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS (…where are you?) A few days ago the President gave a speech on our economic condition and about the growing gap between top and lower income earners, and how the –Middle
A NEW PRINCELING FOR THE HOUSE OF WINDSOR (…and great-grandma happily hoisting a pint on the occasion) A newborn child is always a happy occasion. For our British cousins across the way over there, the arrival of a new princeling
YES, MOTOWN IS DOWN (…but will it be for the count?) Detroit has just filed for bankruptcy, 18 Billion dollars worth of bankruptcy…which is a lot of zeroes…and might get it listed in the Guiness Book of records as the
WE’LL BE HAVING A LONG HEAT WAVE (…and there’ll be a long wait before things cool off again) The global warming evangelicals are no doubt grimly smiling through their flood of sweat, saying…we told you so!…as two large high heat
HE NOW BEARS THE MARK OF CAIN (…to the end of his days..) The jury’s verdict of – Not Guilty- was not a declaration of George Zimmerman’s innocence for the killing of Trayvon Martin. Far from it. Leaving our emotional
THE SKIES MAY STILL BE FRIENDLY (…but with some landings…not so much) The recent crash of an airliner while attempting to land at San Francisco’s airport amazingly only resulted in three tragic fatalities, one of which even more tragic because
MAYBE THEIR SPHYNX KNOWS (…how a democratic system is supposed to work) When the exhilarating breezes of the Arab Spring finally blew into Egypt, its people greeted these by rising up in massive waves of protests to rid themselves of
THE SUPREME COURT…AN UMPIRE OF THE FLEXIBLE PERSUASION (…where any ruling made today…can always get a make-over tomorrow) As any rabid baseball fan can tell you, on the field of play an Umpire’s ruling is absolute and final. You can
NSA’S MASSIVE DATA-TRAWLING METHODS (…means it has to gather a lot of trash just to find one terror-nugget it’s looking for) Snowden’s revelations about NSA’ s long standing secret surveillance and data collection operations seems to have caused everyone extreme
WILL WE END UP WITH A TIPPY CANOE…AND BERNANKE TOO? (…trying to keep an economy on an even keel is a tricky balancing act) Fed Chairman Bernanke’s recent pronouncement about possibly easing back on the stimulus throttle, to let interest