I wanted to post something on the happier side just before Christmas but I’m not feeling it. It has been a somewhat tough Christmas; financially and emotionally. Nothing major really, just some Christmas related family drama that I was unable to extricate myself in time for the holidays. I do have two things, one Christmas [...]
Bernard Madoff (possible and excepted pronunciations include ‘made – off’) stole 50 Billion dollars from would be investors and had been doing so for perhaps over 20 years. This guy once ran the NASDAQ, but besides that his only other skill seems to be the amazing ability to get you to give him all your [...]
A man was denied a birthday cake for his child by a New Jersey supermarket. The store had a problem with the child’s first and middle name: Adolph Hitler. What a wonderful country we live in where people can be this free to be this dumb.Â
The contrite thing to say is that I would die to protect [...]
I own an Ipod, one of the big mothers, a 120 gig with 6300 songs loaded into it. For a while it was an obsession, a hobby that, like most of my hobbies manages to slip the safe tracks of the comfortable and slide into the morass of OCD. But then, almost as suddenly as this [...]
Though if recent sales mean anything they might as well be making cat asses stuffed with herpes. The House just rejected the auto bail out. Why? Seems the Senate version was a feel good measure that looked good on paper but had little by way of measurable goals. Why is this important? Well, if you [...]
I’m watching Whale Wars on the Animal Planet. This is where a bunch of serious minded hippies have gotten a hold of a big ship, a few boats and a helicopter and have decided to take it upon themselves to harry and hinder (and maybe even stop!) Japanese whalers.Â
Now, I really could care less. I [...]