It was announced this week that a group of US banks, including the too-big-to-fail JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, have agreed to an $8,500,000,000.00 settlement to address claims against fraudulent and oppressive mortgage practices, (you remember, the ones that brought our country to its economic knees). …
Just so we’re clear, before anyone begins to think that a new calendar page is an optimistic signal of potentially good things to come, the thoroughly dysfunctional body, now known as the 113th Congress of the United States of America, began 2013 by pretending to do good work in averting…
I wouldn’t be so callous as to opine, at this time of year anyway, on God’s creation of man versus the more science-based thesis to the contrary, but no one can argue that the other God, the more relevant and all-powerful one, Money, was wholly birthed from man’s highly complex…
There I was, unshaven and unwashed, half-reclined in my new comfy chair, surrounded by several of my favorite snacks, prepared, (as one can ever be for these apocalyptic events), to face eternity. Perhaps global warming can be attributed to altering the prophecy. Maybe the interpreters of Mayan hieroglyphs were, well,…
Bob Costas always bugged me. He has that kind of snide delivery that makes me not care that he knows a lot more about sports than anybody else, (except my nephew, Alex, that is), and as a result I usually tune him out. Then he goes and uses his platform…
I guess as long as political cartoonists, (depicting our pending fiscal showdown as Wile E. Coyote suspended in mid air after chasing bi-partisan compromise off a cliff), are our most cogent public voices, we will have to rely on the Acme Co. to come to the rescue. We certainly can’t…
I am aware that I typically use this space to complain, disparage, deconstruct and pontificate on the shortcomings of the topics I choose. It’s not that I am ungrateful or feel personally deprived or put upon, (other than the way so many of us are daily deprived and perennially put…
As the powder keg, aka: The Middle East, moves ever so closer to devastating detonation, nations like our own, with divested economical interests, increase the volume of their useless mumblings about how the perceived combatants on each side of their line in the sand, should approach a diplomatic peace. While…
Dear Barry, Cool, dude! You really showed up for this one, although it wasn’t until around 11pm Monday night with that inspiring and emotional speech in Iowa. Your campaign strategy, even though you eked out the victory, should have been much more substantial and positive. After all, you were running…