Monthly Archives: November 2011

ROGET’S THESAURAS Imagine a world where people who spend time reading volumes of religious dogma, instead, spent those hours perusing Roget’s Thesaurus. Concepts like science and education would be in common usage while religious beliefs like truth and transubstantiation and … Continue reading →

THE NEW JIM CROW PROGRAM While African-Americans represent 4% of the drug users, they represent 32% of the 1.6 million arrested for drug offenses, and that 60% of those African-Americans arrested wind up in prison. These statistics are in the … Continue reading →

PROPHET GROVER NORQUIST The man, Grover Norquist, is God’s gift to the GOP. Though he does not dress like Moses, nor does he carry a staff, this plain, bespectacled, fifty-ish year-old lobbyist, has lined up virtually every conservative politician in … Continue reading →

DON’T YAWN AT THE YUAN One hears a lot of talk in the financial world that China undervalues its currency (the Yuan) to keep its competitive edge when trading with foreign countries. The common belief among those that are in … Continue reading →

FRUMPERY It’s not in the dictionary and it’s a no-go for scrabble, but it’s a remainder to me how much I still have to learn and how little time I’ve got left to do that. At a time we’re all … Continue reading →

CONGRESS TAKES A PASS Why is the U.S. Congress and its staff immune from insider trading? Is that a no-brainer or what? Congress has passed laws to hold people in the financial world to high standards regarding trading ethics, but … Continue reading →

How much does anyone know about the Euro Zone? As far as I know, it’s a space ship that landed 15 years ago in Europe and whose occupants bamboozled the nations of that continent into a fix-all-financial scheme that would … Continue reading →

Last night I watched a group of anti-abortion, anti-tax and anti-federal government presidential wanabees explain to a hand-picked audience how they would put America back on track. “When I’m president,” one said, “I’m going to eliminate 3 federal agencies,” but … Continue reading →