Ah, ideals! Pink and fluffy, lovely and sweet are our dreams and aspirations. The reality of dreams realized, however, often tells a different story, tales of failure, compromise and uneasy accommodation with harsh reality. And so we keep dreaming and striving, falling flat on our kissers, getting up, dusting ourselves off and gamely continuing to […]
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The other day was Holocaust Remembrance Day, recalling the time more than 60 years ago when an estimated 6 million European Jews were murdered by the Nazis in extermination camps. Joining the Jews as victims of this mass slaughter were almost 2 million Poles, 200,000 Roma and Sinti, also called Gypsies, a quarter of a
NEVER FORGET? HOW CAN WE WHEN WE KEEP REPEATING THE HOLOCAUST? Read More »
Why does any news organization print or air the opinions of bankers, economists, banking consultants (whatever the hell they are!) and financial analysts these days? Shouldn’t they all be in a corner somewhere for an extended time out? Or at the very least, taking some remedial math courses? Bad enough we have all these out-of-power
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The vast reserves of petroleum in Saudi Arabia will last for centuries, even at the rate of heightened consumption caused by the demands of many emerging economies. That’s the good news for the 5,000 or so decadent kings and princes that make up the Saudi royal family. The bad news? The ground water in Saudi
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Most of the people who are going to such passionate lengths to get marijuana legalized for “medical purposes” really don’t really give a rat’s ass about cancer victims or their level of pain and nausea. They want to get high, period, amen. So why not just come out and say so? Hell, whiskey’s legal, so
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So New York City Mayor (For Life?) Michael Bloomberg, the self-made billionaire (is there any other kind?) has undertaken his second science experiment on his subjects, er, that is, citizens. First time around, he banned the use of trans-fats in commercial food preparation in New York City, presumably to get our raging cholesterol counts and
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You want to balance the United States budget, create universal healthcare and cut back drastically on poverty and unemployment? Well, who doesn’t? Here’s some suggestions that nobody seems to be thinking about: Abandon the Empire: The United States has over a half million troops stationed in 150 countries throughout out the world. Why? There’s only
So, the president laughed on TV and that’s big news, or at least a big topic of conversation about his sensitivity or perceived lack of it towards the plight of many working people who are suffering in this bleak economic climate. Well, to some of us it looks like a simple case of the Bullfrog
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Good old language, that wonderful, uniquely human form of communication. Language is what we use to describe pretty much everything, from our inner thoughts and feelings to dump trucks. Used properly, it is a sublime form of communication, removing all barriers to understanding and even, in the form of poetry, elevating our souls. The flip
Things are getting harder around here. Money’s tight, jobs are disappearing and the nobody seems to know when the recession will lift or if it will spiral out of control to become the Second Great Depression. But, it could be worse. You could be living in a Third World Country, one of those places where
HARD TIMES? IT COULD BE WORSE. Read More »
