Noise From a Nervous World
Okay, so we have hit the day when the boogeyman gets sworn in as the President of the United States. So there is big panic and big elation all over the nation. If you live in Manhattan you are loading survival
Pre-Inauguration Notes #2
Donald Trump has come under a lot of fire about divesting himself of his far-reaching business empire while he is president. To be fair, it is an almost impossible situation to which no one; either for or against Trump has come up
Pre-Inaugeration Notes #1
Watched Barak Obama being interviewed by George Stephanopoulos. Regardless of how one feels about some of the things he has, or has not done in the last year, one is struck on how Presidential he really is. This man will always
Bits & Pieces #83
Donald Trump announced that he would close down his charitable foundation to avoid conflict of interest charges. How about to avoid going to jail? The foundation has been under intense investigation for using its funds to pay for $258,000 in corporate
Post Election Views #5
There are two basic elements to the coalition, which voted Trump into office in November; First is the blue-collar base, the out of work middle-aged white guys that have been lied to by Republican politicians since the 1980s. They can now
Bits & Pieces #82
There is only one way to drag this country up out of the economic mire into which it has allowed itself to sink. First we have to tax the hell out of the rich. They are the ones who have the
Arabs Hate Everyone
Fareed Zakaria asks the great ISIS question: Why do they hate us? The answer is very simple. They don’t, at least not just us. Islamic terrorists have been killing people all over the world for the last two centuries. In fact, most
Post Election Views #4
So, after being dumb enough to vote a bunch of Tea Party hacks into the House over two elections, after finding that all the GOP promises did nothing but crash the economy under Bush and after discovering that a Republican congress
Trump’s Magic Cabinet
So, we’re a couple of weeks into the Trump pre-administration and we’ve had a chance to take a quick look at what he sees as his cabinet. Yeah, it’s pretty grim. Maybe it shouldn’t be a surprise that the people Trump is
When a Blunder’s not a Blunder
A couple of days back, Donald Trump, not my favorite president-elect, took a congratulatory call from the President of Taiwan. Most people would say, what’s the big deal but it seems to have ruffled a hell of a lot of feathers both