You really can’t make this stuff up, and even if somebody did, they’d probably cast Charlie Sheen in the part of Mohamed Bouazizi, and unless he, (fine method actor that he is), really set himself on fire, (show of hands?), it would never live up to the real events unfolding…
The Borders bookstore in Saratoga Springs is closing. As stunned as I am, personally, that my own industry could fall into an unrecognizable electronic abyss in less than ten years, it seems unimaginable that books are following so quickly on its heals. And, lest you think I am somehow blind…
The leaders of the Egyptian revolution are thanking FaceBook for networking protestors out into the streets in a show of force and determination that basically ousted a thirty-year oppressive regime in just fourteen days with almost no bloodshed. Just when you were thinking that Canadian Viagra, directions from any place…
I usually don’t talk about personal stuff in my blogs…well, my opinion, sure, but little else. However, I just spent the last ten days, first reacting to a medical situation effecting my soon-to-be ninety-one-year-old mother and then springing into action with my brother, sister and amazing collection of caring cousins….