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Dancing on the Head of a Pin

Earlier in the week, Blackberry was down for the better part of a day and it was national news. The outage was said to affect over 80% of large companies in the U.S. Eight million subscribers had to actually talk to someone during the outage. It is reported, but not substantiated, that several people actually paid attention during company staff meetings.

Wall Street Afraid of the Wrong Ghost

Wall Street still doesn't seem to get it. The world beyond New York has been moving in directions beyond the street's recent notice. Have patience with them, it's tough to keep your focus in a bubble.

Beginning of the End--Richard Nixon Redux

It’s not always the same things that trip up presidencies, but it’s always the same attitude.

As We (Too Many of Us) Get Poorer

As we get poorer, the best we seem able to do is take a spiritual attitude toward the increasing numbers of Americans living at or near the poverty level. Religion has always espoused the argument that the disadvantaged should be meek, that their reward lies in the hereafter. That’s an argument of the privileged, of course and you don’t see the poor in the front pew at any church I ever attended.

The Great American Don Imus Fraud

A so-called ‘shock jock’ in the traditions of Redd Foxx and Lenny Bruce, although Don Imus has been at it for so long as to virtually define the genre.

The President Has This Bag Marked “Iraq” and Desperately Wants Someone to Hold It

A scam tad older than America itself,  one gives somebody a bag to hold, the purpose being to provide a distraction while slipping away. It was artfully arranged to let others hang about, taking blame for something that had gone wrong.

Educating the Destruction of American Business

Customers no longer are crucial to the American commercial contract. That’s more than proven by automated telephone systems, impossibly repeating how important you are as a customer as you are simultaneously left on hold, captive to unending message tapes of the additional services available while this particular one is withheld.

Mergers are Worthless, It’s Time to Spinoff National Security

It’s rampant, this conglomeration. Corporate buyouts and takeovers everywhere, an ever upward spiral of achievement, the sure-fire way to stock success, increasing the quarterly return and all in the name of what’s most American—the economy of size.

This could be yet another musing on what went wrong at AOL-Time Warner or Mercedes-Chrysler, but it’s not. It’s a critical look at why the Patriot Act and the Department of Homeland Security prevent, rather than enable our common safety.

First Cow-Tipping and Now This

Stove-Tipping Raises Concerns--Consumer Groups Call for Prevention After Deaths, Injuries is frightening headline from my Washington Post.

Deaths and injuries—who would have known? Let me tell you, I approach my stove with a whole lot more concern after reading that.

Why Internet Gambling is Hazardous to Your Health

You probably wondered (as I have) what makes Internet gambling worthy of federal indictments and possible multi-decade prison terms.

What won't they make illegal next?