Expecting a corporation to be loyal to the nation that made it wealthy is like counting on your imaginary friend to watch your back in a fist fight. It’s a nice thought but it’s not going to [...]

I’m going public, ladies and gentlemen! Consider this message to be the official bobcrespo.com IPO. I am assured by my good friend Bernard Madoff that IPO stands for Initial Public Offering, so I’m offering people the chance to get in on the [...]

Once it was impossible to fly. Now, it is hard to avoid it. What’s [...]

It was 105 years ago today that humans had their minds lifted into the clouds. It was on this day in 1903 that a couple of high school dropouts who looked like refugees from a barber shop quartet first took to the air. Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright of [...]

There are people who keep wild lions and tigers as pets. Not for long, [...]

The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO) has been busy investigating cultural differences between nations. For example, the guy who threw his shoes at President Bush The Younger the other day in Baghdad has served to remind us that there are many [...]

Until somebody comes up with some better ideas, looks like we’re stuck with umbrellas, politicians and [...]

Looks like the Iraqi people are on to something. When a member of the Iraqi press corps (who knew there was an Iraqi press corps?), one Muntader al Zaidi, threw his shoes at President Bush The Younger the other day he started a trend (and who knew they had [...]

There are worse things than dying. Not a whole lot of them of course, but [...]

You wonder why the once mighty financial institutions of Wall Street are crumbling. Here’s a hint: The guy who just admitted to running a fifty billion dollar Ponzi scam and calling it a hedge fund has been described as “a longstanding leader in [...]