THE DOW TAKES A DIVE (skydiving….without a ‘chute) The Dow just took a dive, as investors, lemming-like, stampeded themselves right off a cliff of uncertainties, unable to bear a load of bad economic news. This kind of panicky irrationality is
PLAYING KICK-THE-CAN WITH OUT FUTURE (passing the buck to another – Super Committee) They’ve done it again! After screwing around for over six months no one in Washington has come up with anything to fix our fiscal problems. They’re playing
IT SEEMS TO ME I’VE HEARD THAT SONG BEFOFRE…. (only now it’s going to cost us a whole lot more…) As the President and this Congress continue playing political end games with each other at our expense, it’s obvious that
THE MURDEROUS MADNESS (….of a midsummer nightmare without rationality) The recent terror event in Oslo, Norway, is a shocker. Why would anyone have such extreme disdain and hostility towards their own culture and society? Norway has long been highly admired
GOOD NIGHT, ATLANTIS….ATLANTIS, GOOD NIGHT (….we’ll see you in our dreams) By a dawn’s early light our Atlantis shuttle glided down out of the darkness, making a smooth feather-like touch down on the runway, and then rolled quietly off into….history.
THE CAPITOL HILL FOLLIES SHOW (….a little song….a little dance….a little seltzer….in your pants!) The latest development on Capitol Hill about the debt limit crisis appears to have reached the moment when a little bit of make-believe compromising is made
A CREW ON A SHIP OF FOOLS (still arguing about whether to raise the bridge or lower the water) The President and the Congress continue to play political chicken with each other about the debt ceiling issue. In this case
HOW TO BRING DOWN A MEDIA EMPIRE (with warped ethics and sleaze-ball criminalities) Mr. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. empire has been dealt a tectonic shock which may not actually bring it down, but, it has been given a sufficiently strong
AN OPEN LETTER TO OUR NATIONAL LEADERSHIP (….tick tock….tick tock….tick tock….) Mr. President, Senator Reid, Speaker Boehner: Gentlemen, You three are the respective pinnacles of political power in our country; and, with that power and authority, come your obligations to
TWITTER, TWITTER, POLITICOS THAT YOU ARE (it’s still just….sound bites….from afar) The President’s re-cent foray into the world of social media twittering was an interesting exercise at political self-promotion. To what extent such a use of today’s communicating technology will