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The Recession is Over!

I saw on the news, or maybe I read it on the InterNet or possibly I overheard the ranting of the well-informed homeless guy who lives on the bench by the Saratoga post office, that the recession is over.  I guess Obama is wary of jumping the gun and making…

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Compensation

It’s nearly impossible for me to wrap my head around the concept of compensation.  If I look at a table of figures for various jobs, then expand the criteria to include the chasm between the upper and lower limits and throw in the random insertion of a geographical stick pin,…

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Hey, everybody can hear you!

I can understand the ennui that promotes bad behavior behind the scenes at fast food establishments, (spitting in the salad, boogers in the burgers…I want to believe that the Kentucky Fried Rat was an unfortunate accident rather than a $7/hr prank), but what’s the deal with politicians?  It couldn’t really…

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…and that’s the way it is

Unfortunately, it’s been quite some time since most of us had anyone like Walter Cronkite who could say ‘that’ and seem the least bit credible.  What passes for news these days is 90% hair/make-up/wardrobe and 10% “tell me what I want to hear!”  That near-opposite reports of the ‘same’ information…

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Fear of Flying

I have never had a fear of flying.  As a matter of fact, my most prevalent recurring dream is the one where I’m able to soar bird-like at will and one that always ends in disappointment when the wish my heart had been making proves to be unfulfilled fantasy.  If…

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Dear Sarah

Dear Sarah, You don’t know me, (hey, a year or so ago, nobody knew you either), but since you insist on remaining a public figure, you’ll understand why I might have an opinion about your behavior.  I’m in Paris right now, (it’s in France), eating myself into a stupor, and…

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An Open Letter

Dear South Carolina: I know I rambled a bit during my news conference and that nobody bought that ridiculous story about having to clear my head during a walkabout on the Appalachian Trail.  To be perfectly honest, (I realize, at this point, the honesty thing is a bit of a…

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Dad

Hey, it’s the first day of Summer, (the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere), and Father’s Day!  I’ve always loved Summer; the extra daylight and the heat and the Good Humor© truck making its daily, jingling appearance, (no annoying ditties, just the ching-ching-ching of the string-pulled bell…

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In the Name of Hate

There’s no way I’m going to mention the name of the asshole, (hopefully writhing in pain in a DC hospital), who decided to go out in a blaze of self-styled glory by gunning down an innocent man at the Holocaust Museum, or the other asshole who was apparently given a…

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As the New Owners of GM…

First off, shouldn’t we all get a company car?  So what if they’re crap…free is free? This is the biggest load yet.  Although I am certainly sensitive to the domino affect of letting GM just go away, I am more keenly aware of sustaining a fruitless cause.  I would also…

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