Which is worse? Herpes or those Plexaderm TV commercials? WRONG! Neither is as annoying as the never-ending coverage of the Presidential campaign(s)! Perhaps, Presidential campaigns are more important than Plexaderm . . . perhaps . . . but they are also even more annoying. It’s not merely the never-ending commercials but also the breathless news (?) coverage that amplifies it . . . and cheapens…
For the last decade or so, cryptocurrencies like bitcoin had enjoyed an illicit love affair on Wall Street. I wrote then that there is nothing you can do with bitcoin that you cannot do with dollars, unless you’re a drug dealer who wants payment in the middle of the night. Since then, I have watched, first with amusement and later with horror, as the younger…
I attended the funeral of a friend and neighbor today. A retired Naval captain, he wore that dignity well, and I saluted him. Unfortunately, his fifteen-year-old heart bypass suddenly blew out . . . and he was gone. Watching his small black-draped widow struggling with her tears, one felt her pain and abandonment. Even thought she was surrounded by family, she was utterly alone. Talking…
We Americans are such hypocrites. We say loudly that we love our individual privacy, but we would sell it all for fifty cents. With just your name, I can already find out more about you that your mother knows about you! Think about that for a minute. It scares the hell out of me! It’s not optional. Imagine some big fat cop kicks open your…
I’ll never be as smart as my late mother. Many years ago, she told me that everybody in Washington was a crook. (Okay, thanks Mom?) Some years later, I asked her which are worse – Republican crooks or Democratic crooks? She said she preferred Republican crooks, because they dress nicer that Democratic crooks. (Okay, thanks Mom?) A few years before her death, I asked her…