L’ALGERIE ANTI-FRANCAISE (…may stir up the dregs of a former bitter colonial divorce) The Islamist militants who attacked and kidnapped a group of expatriate workers from a half dozen countries ( including several Americans), from one of Algeria’s major gas
IS IT A CASE OF CHITTY-CHITTY-BANG-BANG… (…or rather a matter of Boeing-Boeing…Boing?) Even in the not-so-user-friendly skies of today’s commercial aviation, Boeing has generally maintained its reputation as the premier brand for anything that flies those skies. In fact for
A TALE OF TWO SPECIES (…and their confrontation gone wrong) Every now and then an oddball item pops up in the news which catches my eye, and this is one of them. It’s about a young Staffordshire terrier named –
GETTING CONGRESS TO DO…NOT JUST BE (…may need an old Missouri mule-skinner’s method…) Congress’s continuing failure to do what needs doing to get our financial house in order, rather than just being an expensive gaggle of career politicos taxpaying voters
WHAT HATH CONGRESS WROUGHT? (…not much…beyond cobbling together a fiscal band-aid to justify itself) With a last gasp of doing nothing worthwhile for the country, our glorious 2012 Congress ended its session with a bit of kabuki performance; some, might
OUR AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS (…stuck in Purgatory between Heaven and Hell) Everyone keeps on yapping about our good old American Middle Class, as if it were some kind of much abused, overly taxed, and sacred icon of our society. Perhaps
UP IN ARMS! (…never mind assault guns…give me a hogleg .44 any day) The Newtown slaughter of innocents just before Christmas seems to have sparked the opposite effect we would have expected to result from such a horrendous act of
OUR FINANCIAL HOUSE REMAINS IN DISORDER (…while we dangle on bungee cords from that fiscal cliff) The President and the Congress continue to fail us miserably… as our financial house remains in disorder…while we dangle from that fiscal cliff with
CLOSING OUT THE YEAR (…and may we all have bungee cords as we take a flying leap into the New Year) Well, it’s another year down. It looks like Christmas and the holiday season is closing out the year on
THE PRICE OF PERFECTION (…may be more than what we’re willing to pay) At the rate our career politicos are moving to put our financial house in order…we may no longer have a house to be worried about. Leaving aside