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Mommie Dearest

October 3, 2008

How many mothers are there in this country? 50 million? 70 million? 90 million? Last night Joe Biden legitimized single fathers. It’s about time. Thank you, Joe. After the death of my first wife, I was a single father for nine years. I now hear a constant drumbeat that Sarah Palin is qualified for president […]

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Stupidity Times Timidity

October 1, 2008

The Senate is scheduled to vote today on a slightly modified version of the bailout bill. They now prefer it to be called a rescue bill, as though that made it better or more honest. All of those calls Congress has been receiving are against bailing out Wall Street but favor rescuing Main Street. It […]

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Victory? Maybe, Maybe Not.

September 30, 2008

This may be a situation where even the winners are losers. There were plenty of losers, however. The House Republicans that voted against the bill did so for the wrong reasons. But, you take what you can get. This bill was far from what was needed. It deserved to lose. It was the result of […]

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Me and Shakespeare

September 26, 2008

Despite being a contemporary of the Bard, I admit to being far, far ‘neath the man in talent and in command of the tongue. Were I to ever fail to remember that sad fact there are hosts, indeed hordes, of persons at the ready to remind me. I knew William Shakespeare and I am no […]

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Christmas on Wall Street

September 25, 2008

Have you heard some rumors using a figure of $700 billion? You didn’t forget Fannie and Freddie and Bear Stearns and AIG did you? That was somewhere in the neighborhood of $315 billion, even before the other number started getting all of the attention. So, let’s just round all of this off at a trillion […]

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Say What?

September 25, 2008

Sometimes you wonder if certain people are familiar with the Mother Tongue. Few politicians, at least since Adlai Stevenson, have been fully literate. So, we cut them some slack. Despite their profession, either most of the media share the same disadvantage or they are exceptionally forgiving to their partners in crime. Given the quality and […]

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Get Real

September 24, 2008

Well, here comes another defense of the indefensible. No. Not from me. It is the subject, the target of my post. I wish I could remember when I first found the limits, the real limits of ideology. Was it difficult? Since I did it so long ago, it probably wasn’t that deeply ingrained. I imagine […]

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Responding to the Financial 9-11

September 22, 2008

Did we learn anything from 9-11? Apparently not. Here we are in a financial 9-11 and everyone in Washington is reacting the same way. Is it possible that future candidates will wish they had refused to join the herd? Will they say that they voted for it but now are against it? All of a […]

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Not Your Daddy’s Oldsmobile

September 19, 2008

No. This isn’t a cut-and-paste from Car and Driver magazine. This is really about change in that strange and illogical world of economics. Oh well. I guess I just scared everyone off. Come on now. This is not only important but by reading this you will be several steps ahead of all of those professional […]

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Screw You

September 17, 2008

The Nashville Metro Council has provided a perfect example of the change that has happened over the years. You probably think you are a citizen of the United States. Wrong. At least in the eyes of these politicians and most of the others around the country at all levels, you are a subject. Do you […]

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